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Did you know you can easily create your own Windows Phone Push Notifications using the Notify My Windows Phone app? NMWP is a platform that helps you push information to virtually any Windows Phone 7 (and 8) device you own. What do you need to get started? Windows Phone 7 or 8 The NMWP app from the Microsoft...

Yesterday we published a new KBArticle about Operations Manager Maintenance Mode. It explains everything you want to know about Maintenance Mode.   What is Maintenance Mode? Maintenance mode is a feature in Operations Manager to suspend monitoring of an object during regular software or hardware...

Today I wanted to have a look at the Exchange 2010 Management Pack files, but I did not had access to an OpsMgr 2007 environment and only had my laptop with Windows 7 running with me. So I started to download the Exchange 2010 MP from the Microsoft PinPoint Website . After the download had finished I...

I was investigating an issue with OpsMgr Agents who where stuck in Maintenance Mode . A big help was this article from David Dixon . We managed to solve the issue but we also wanted to know what caused the issue and I investigated if the RMS HealthService was put in Maintenance Mode accidentally....

This week I got some questions about Multihoming agents. As you know, a multihomed architecture is based on the concept of an agent reporting to two (or more) management groups. But first I wanted to know how I could see if an agent was a multihomed agent and I used PowerShell to look into the registry...

This week I had a conversation with a customer who wanted to offer their admins OpsMgr Web Consoles instead of the “normal” fat-client OpsMgr Consoles. Most customers think that the Web Console would have less impact on the RSM as the “normal” fat-client. But when we look in the Operations Manager 2007...

Some weeks ago I got a question from Marnix Wolf asking if it’s possible to retrieve Company Knowledge for a monitor or rule and sent that as email. And after an evening playing around with PowerShell I created a PowerShell script that could do exactly that.   Pre-requisites: OpsMgr 2007 (R2) PowerShell...

Today I needed to check if a customer had installed the latest versions of available Management Packs. And there are many tools that can help you with that, but I wanted to know if the downloaded MP files had a newer version than the ones installed in the Management Group. I could have used  Boris...

Yesterday I was at a customer explaining OpsMgr Reporting and how they could start creating custom OpsMgr Reports. They told me they had trouble finding information about creating OpsMgr Reports so I created a list with all the information I had been saving in OneNote . And I thought it would be a good...

I’ve already blogged a couple of times about ways to document your Operations Manager Databases. First I showed you to use SQLSpec from ElsaSoft , a couple days ago I told you you can find more information about the OperationsManagerDW schema in the new Reporting Documentation . And now I’m telling you...

This week I’m busy preparing a PowerShell v2 Essentials workshop I’ll be delivering next week. One of the Modules of this PowerShell v2 Essentials Workshop is PowerShell Remoting. If you don’t go to my workshop or don’t know what PowerShell remoting is, I suggest reading the Administrator...

Today I was troubleshooting an OpsMgr Issue what seemed to be caused by using the wrong MOMIISModules.dll. On some servers we saw the next OpsMgr EventID’s popping up: Log Name: Operations Manager Source: HealthService Date: 28-9-2010 10:12:55 Event ID: 4507 Task Category: Health Service Level: Error...

Today I got a question from a customer about the different Icons being uses in the Authoring Pane in the Operations Console for Groups.   Some Groups have an Icon with what seems to be computers in a box and others have an empty box.   The difference between the Groups with and without Computers...

Source: Silect email This week I received an email from Silect about  Simplifying Management Pack Deployment For System Center Operations Manager . You can download this free whitepaper from their website . In this free whitepaper, you will learn how to more effectively plan your Operations Manager...

Update: Found out that command did not worked when there is only one Management Server. Today I was trying to create some PowerShell scripts for the use with PowerShellASP from /n Software and wanted to find the name of the OpsMgr Management Group. Because I was not sure which Cmdlet could give...

Source: 1E Business Blogs Daniel Kregor created a great new tool that  monitors the 3 critical service on the Root Management Server (SDK, Config and HealthService). I’ve been fortunate to test this OMWatcher tool and even suggested a new feature for the next release ;-) Check out Daniel’s post...

Have you ever wanted to check if AD Integration is enabled for an Agent using a SQL query? Today I wanted to do that and I created the next SQL Query. You may find it usefull. /* Find all Agent where AD Integration is configured Run on OperationsManager Database Initial query: Daniele Muscetta */...

Today I stumbled on this video about PowerWF (a visual PowerShell Development tool) creating an OpsMgr MP. The video shows how PowerWF can be used with PowerShell scripts and converts it to a workflow,and creating a MP with the data for OpsMgr. Visual PowerShell Development with PowerWF Studio...

Source: Edge.technet.com In this video on Microsoft Technet, Ananthanarayan Sundaram (Senior Product Manager – System Center) is talking about some (new) monitoring scenario’s for OpsMgr vNext. The scenario’s he is talking about are: Monitoring the end-user experience in a distributed cloud...

Source: Words and Software I case you maybe missed this blog. Jeanie Decker is announcing that the  Operator Basics SuperFlow for Operations Manager 2007 is available for download! “ Superflow , you wonder? Configuration Manager pioneered this format for delivering information. It provides a complete...

For OpsMgr quite some people use the local system account as their Action Account. And if things are not working as expected you sometimes want to run a script or other actions under the local system account. I used to use the Task Scheduler to have scripts running under the Local System Account, but...

Sources: Steve Rachui’s Manageability blog – ConfigMgr/OpsMgr and                Savision Live Maps Blog Is this a coincidence or what? I’ve been asked to take a look at some new blog articles from Savision about adding a ‘location...

I just created my first PowerGUI PowerPack which you can use together with the MP Authoring Console. Just like I blogged previously in my MP Authoring Helper PowerShell script here . Here a teaser screenshot of the PowerGUI PowerPack.   It’s just a first version I created and I would like to have...

This week I’m having an internal MP Authoring Workshop from Brian Wren and I learned that it’s sometimes handy to have information available that’s not available when having the MP Authoring tool open. You can not switch to the Service Model when you have an other windows open. That’s why I created...

Did you all know there TechNet is now in a Wiki Beta? What is TechNet Wiki Beta? The TechNet Wiki is a library of information about Microsoft technologies written by the community for the community. Whether you write code, manage servers, keep mission-critical sites up and running, or just enjoy digging...