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I finally found out the issue why this script was not working for everybody. It was because of the different versions of PowerShell. Now it should also work on PowerShell v2. Another possible fix to the empty ComputerGroupsMembernames issue. Last week I saw a request for a PowerShell script which...

After posting some years ago a blog post with all the OpsMgr 2007 tools I thought it would be time for a new OM2012 Toolbox blog post. Tool Purpose Description Author Webpage MPViewer 2.2 MP Viewing The previous version 1.7 (that works with OpsMgr 2007 and...

You all have installed Cumulative Update Rollup 2 (UR2) for OpsMgr 2012 , right? If not just follow the steps Kevin described in his blogpost . After installing the UR2 on your agents you want to check if the patches are installed on all your agents. You can just use the following PowerShell command...

Today I needed to check the SPN’s for my OM2012 environment and (again) I used some other blogs to confirm my SPN settings. Some of the blogs I always check are the following: References: Operations Manager 2007 SPN's OpsMgr 2012: What should the SPN’s look like? What is a Service Principal Name (SPN...

In OpsMgr 2007 we had the option to create a RSS Feed for Alerts using the Operations Web Console. Selecting the RSS button would return the following RSS Feed info. In System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OM2012) we don’t have that option anymore. But this is not really an...

We have published a new blogpost on the System Center: Operations Manager Engineering Team Blog about SQL Server Collation Requirements.   “There has been quite a bit of confusion over the requirements for SQL Server collation for the various components of System Center. We didn’t make a coordinated...

My blogpost on the formatting changes for System Center Operations Manager 2012 in Update Rollup 1 has been published on the PowerShell Magazine website . Take a look at my blogpost if you are interested in the PowerShell formatting changes that have been implemented after the release of UR1. Read more...

Today I deployed some new Management Pack in my OM2012 demo environment, and to check if the Management Packs got deployed I checked the Operations Manager Eventlog for eventid 1201. And because I do this every time when I deploy new Management Packs I created a PowerShell script to check for these...

While the rest of the System Center community is in Vegas for MMS2012 I’m helping customers with their questions about System Center Operations Manager 2012. To be honest I’m little jealous on all the people who are in Vegas right now.   So I created some more detailed documentation on how to start...

Just a short blogpost to let you know we released the Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager. Go to Microsoft Download Center and download the following documentation. Overview The downloadable files listed on this page contain the product documentation for the Operations...

Today I was playing around with creating some Dashboard Views with Widgets and wanted to store them in their own Management Pack. All the blogs about creating OM 2012 Dashboards store the Dashboards and Widgets in the Default Management Pack. This is by design because all Views (and the Dashboard View...

Yesterday I blogged about some small improvements to Daniele Grandini blogpost about a great PowerShell script to dump the contents of Management Pack Bundles (.mpb) files and the old MP contents. But did you knew you can do the same with the new MP Viewer Daniele Muscetta created for OM12 ?   With...

Last week Daniele Grandini posted a great PowerShell script to dump the contents of Management Pack Bundles (.mpb) files and the old MP contents. The script takes just two parameters an input directory where you have to copy MP and MPB files and an output directory where the dumps will be saved. The...

Now that System Center Operations Manager 2012 (OM12) Beta available is, it’s time to compare the OM12 Command Shell with the OpsMgr 2007 Command Shell .   Snapin vs Module OpsMgr 2007 has a PoweShell Snapin and OM12 uses a PowerShell Module . Modules are a new feature of PowerShell v2 are now widely...