Configuration Manager (SCCM)
- Announcement: SCAP Extensions 3.0 for System Center Configuration Manager is now available
- Now Available: An Update to the Configuration Manager Cmdlet Library
- September 2015 Security Update Release Summary
- Where is The System Center Configuration Manager Cmdlet Library
- Reusing the same NIC for multiple PXE initiated deployments in System Center Configuration Manger OSD
- ConfigMgr Collection Queries
- Faster Virtual App Publishing at First Logon for Non-Persistent VDI Environment
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Intune / Enterprise Mobility Suite
Operations Manager (SCOM)
- Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series
- System Center Management Pack for Active Directory Domain Services has been updated
- System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 DHCP has been updated
- System Center Operations Management Pack for SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview
- SCOM 2012 R2 now offers additional support for SQL Server 2014 SP1
- Configuring Office 365 (O365) Management Pack in SCOM
- Allowing SCOM to Monitor SQL with Local System
- Monitoring and Visualizing SQL Server using 3rd party dashboard solutions
- Monitoring and Visualizing SQL Server using System Center Operations Manager
- Making your Product Connector Highly Available in OpsMgr 2012
- SCOM MP Tip: System Center Core Blog
- Kicking the tires on TP3 using an All-In-One OpsMgr virtual in Azure IaaS
- Scheduled Maintenance Mode in Operations Manager vNext
- Best Practices for monitoring VMware with SCOM and V8 is out
- Operations Manager and OpInsights sessions at Dev Connections
- Deploying OpsMgr 2016 TP3 with Minimum Windows Server GUI requirements
- Squared Up Hit The Road
- Squared Up Dashboard Community Initiative
- SCOM 2012 R2 Web Console Configuration Required updated
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Operations Management Suite
- What is Operations Management Suite (OMS)?
- Connecting Operations Management Suite (OMS) to SCOM
- Near Real-time Performance Data Collection in OMS
- One Small Footprint For a Server, One Giant Leap For OMS
- Find out if your servers are talking to a Malicious IP address with Operations Management Suite
- Monitoring and Visualizing SQL Server using OMS
- Manage Custom Fields in Operations Management Suite
- Using Wire Data in Operations Management Suite Log Search
- OMS SQL Assessment Solution
- OMS – Near-Real Time (NRT) Performance Data Collection
- Real Time Performance Analysis with Operations Management Suite (OMS)
- OpsMgr Performance Collection Rules for OMS Near Real-Time Performance Data Collection
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Custom Solutions
- Groups based upon OU Membership
- SCOM Visual Studio Authoring – VBScript and PowerShell Based Discoveries
- Updated MP Author’s System Center 2012 Orchestrator Management Pack
- Sample Contextual Performance Widget Template
- OpsMgr Self Maintenance Management Pack 2.5.0.0
- Check if SCOM 2012 R2 Infrastructure was upgraded to UR7 – PS Script
- PowerShell Task to Check Device Availability
- Multi-home Management Group Automation MP
- SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 MP Configuration script
- SCOM 2012 R2 – PowerShell Based Console Task
- Management Pack to Monitor and Reduce Health Service Store Size
- Extra Monitor Type for TCP and HTTP(S) Synthetic Transactions
- Put server in Maintenance mode SCOM 2012
- Network Monitoring Change Network Adapter Names
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Problems and Fixes
- OM12x & Visio Add-In & Outdated Windows Azure MP: ‘Client not supported’
- System Center Tips: Fixing SCOM To OMS Connection Issues
- Alert on SQL Job Failure when SQL Agent Job Discovery is Enabled
- Support Tip: Ops Manager web application monitoring logs error code 80090326 when the watcher node does not support RC4
Service Manager (SCSM)
- Improving Service Manager Performance
- SCSM – Service Management on an iPad
- August Service Manager LyncUp Now Available – Plus Disable ECL Logs for Connectors
- Help us in understanding your workload
- SCSM – Exporting Work Items with Action Log
- Getting any SCSM entity by GUID
- Related Items for Review Activity in SCSM 2012
Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
- Adding ESX/vCenter to SCVMM
- SCVMM – Storage Overcommitment PowerShell Script – Version 4.0
- A VM that Azure Site Recovery helps protect goes into a resynchronization state
- VMM 2012 service account must be in the DBO user role
- VMM 2012 R2 UR7 – Issue NVGRE Gateways
- Working with VM Update Functional Level in System Center 2016 TP3 VMM
- Manage Windows Server 2016 TP3 Network Controller with System Center 2016 TP3 VMM
- Working with vNIC Consistent Naming in System Center 2016 TP3 VMM
- Rolling Cluster Upgrade in System Center 2016 TP3 VMM
- Bare-Metal Provisioning Hyper-V Cluster in System Center 2016 TP3 VMM
- Convert Standard Switch to Logical Switch in System Center 2016 TP3 VMM
Automation
- Azure Automation: New Features announced!
- Viewing and Applying Configurations in Azure Automation DSC
- Publish your Module to PowerShell Gallery with Azure Automation Connection
- Azure Automation – Samples from Sessions
- OMS Automation Part 2 – Create a Custom Azure Automation Runbook to Execute Against OpsMgr On-Premises
Data Protection Manager (DPM)