Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Using Papercut to test SCOM subscriptions

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Have you ever needed to test a subscription in SCOM using the email channel, but don't access to a SMTP server and/or don't want the...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Discovery and the Dell Windows Server MP for SCOM

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Yesterday, I imported the Dell Server MP for SCOM (v4.1).  My best practice is to first test the MP in a development environment.  Once I ha...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

SCCM Advertised Programs Don’t Appear on Windows 2008 Server RDP Sessions

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Earlier today, I came across a strange issue that arises when advertising a program to Windows Server 2008 using SCCM.  The program advertis...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Windows Live Essentials 2011 beta refresh

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Read more about it here .  Here’s to hoping they fixed the account lockout issue present with Live Sync. UPDATE:  I haven’t confirmed this...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Automating SQL 2005/2008 Express Backup in 5 Easy Steps

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I was recently asked to backup all system and user databases on a SQL 2005 Express installation. Unfortunately, SQL 2005 Express native back...
Friday, August 06, 2010

Windows System State Analyzer

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“The basic functionality of the System State Analyzer tool is to allow you to compare two snapshots taken at different points in time. This ...

Killing a hung service

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Today I came across a system that was failing to heartbeat .  Opening services.msc on the box revealed that the System Center Management ser...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Adding SCOM R2 Report Models

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SCOM R2 includes 2 new report models for Events and Performance.  For direction on how to add these models have a look at http://blogs.techn...