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Bulk Disable/Enable SCOM Rules & Monitors
As part of our customer tuning process we tend to pre-tune management packs by providing the customer with a spreadsheet with all rules & monitors. We work though this to decide what should be...
View ArticleBacking Up SCOM Custom Management Packs Automatically With Folder Structure
I was asked by a customer to create a simple automated backup method to ensure their custom SCOM management packs were backed up, but also whilst keeping a sensible folder structure. This ended up...
View ArticleService Manager Console Doesn’t Display All Items
You’ve opened the console and connected to your management server of choice, but you don’t see all the views, and when you click on a view you don’t see all the items you should see! This typically...
View ArticleService Manager: Orchestrator Runbooks Missing, Invalid, or Disappeared
Occasionally after the Orchestrator for Service Manager connector has run the status of some of your Runbooks may change to “missing” or “invalid”. Typically this is for one of the following reasons:...
View ArticleJSON Azure deployment: Create PowerShell script during CSE to allow scripting...
While working on a JSON Azure deployment we came across a scenario where we were needing to script after a reboot from the Custom Script Extension (CSE). This can’t be done out of the box as once the...
View ArticleIssue with installing DPM 2016 using JSON
Recently I’ve been working on deploying Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2016 during a JSON deployment. One of the prerequisites the installer looks for is that Hyper-V, Hyper-V PowerShell & Hyper-V...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 Basic Availability Group with non-default endpoint port
Antecedent During one of my latest implementations I configured a multi-subnet SQL Basic Availability Group (BAG) configuration in Azure. I also wrote a blog about that what you can read HERE. After...
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Service Manager 2016 Exchange Connector: The Connection to the Server was...
If you follow the deployment guide for the Exchange Connector 3.1 you’ll find when you get down to the hyperlink for the Exchange Web Services API it doesn’t work. This can cause you to search the web...
View ArticleService Manager and Operations Manager Run As Account Lockouts
Service Manager and Operations Manager will allow you to set credentials for RunAs accounts that will in turn allow you to use different accounts for connecting to different systems. For example you...
View ArticleSLOs aren’t Applying when using a Combination Class
Anyone who has worked with SLOs in Service Manager knows that they are scoped by using a Queue that allows you to set the criteria. You can use combination classes as the target class for a queue....
View ArticleInstall System Center Update Rollup Silently
During writing an ARM deployment for Data Protection Manager 2016, i found the need to install UR2 silently as part of the custom script extension. The installer for the DPM UR2 update didn’t have any...
View ArticleMoving DPM 2016 DB after JSON Install
Whilst scripting the JSON installation for DPM 2016, i discovered that i couldn’t specify the DPM DB location. There is a parameter for this, but no matter what i tried, the DPM DB files would always...
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Editing an Authored Form
When editing a form in the Service Manager Authoring Tool it is best practice to use the Undo function rather than move a function or label that is in the wrong place, or no longer needed. This is...
View ArticleSCOM Cluster Disk Monitoring – Logical Disks Not Monitored
Just a quick one as i had to spend a while searching for an answer as this isn’t really written anywhere in black and white. Was working on a support case the other day where the customer had reported...
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Azure Virtual Machine (VM) encryption – Make it faster on Linux
During one of my last project with a customer who works with highly sensitive data, I got a request that every VM which stores data on its disks need to be encrypted. There is more than one way to do...
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Understanding App Service Environment Billing
Today I was helping a customer look at a perceived discrepancy between the billing shown in the preview feature Cost Management and Billing in the Azure Portal and the detailed usage download from the...
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Microsoft Azure… It’s Portal Mania
I work with Microsoft Azure all day every day, I’m used to using the many different URLs which are available to us as users of the platform. When I speak to customers one of the biggest bit of feedback...
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What is Scrum?
Scrum is an Agile project management framework used for product development, especially software development which encourages all members of a team to get involved. It can be applied to any project...
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Authorisation with Azure AD Groups
Authorisation with Azure AD Groups When authenticating your Web application with Azure AD all users from the specified Azure Active Directory will have access to the secured Web Application. In order...
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SAP in Azure Security and Availability
SAP security and availability Having been involved in many Enterprise clients, I have seen the critical nature of the SAP environment and the sensitivity of the business to issues with the...
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