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Today I am at a customer who has installed the OpsMgr 2007 R2 Evaluation version and wanted to know when the evaluation periods ends. I thought the easiest way would be look at the install date of the RMS and add 180 days. So I created a PowerShell script to do that for me. $InstallDate = get-managementserver...

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...

Have you ever tried to download the files on the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation webpage ? On this page you find all the technical documentation for Operations Manager 2007 R2. Pretty handy to have them downloaded on you workstation for offline reading. But as you see you need...

Marco Shaw , has published an article about how Windows PowerShell can be used with System Center Operations Manager 2007 on the August Technet Magazine . Go read this great article about PowerShell and OpsMgr 2007 . He even mentions my PowerShell Event Creator script   in his article :-) I know...

Some days ago I read a blog post from Bjorn Houben called SCOM2012 – Quick test lab setup OpsMgr 2012 SP1 Beta using prepared VHD . In that blog post he described how he had used the pre-configured System Center 2012 SP1 Beta downloadable evaluation VHDs to quickly install a test lab setup for...

Last week I had to some long car drives to one of our customers and had plenty of time to listen to some of my favorite podcasts like the PowerScripting Podcasts and Inside Central Podcasts . And in Episode 12 both of my favorite topics where discussed, PowerShell and Operations Manager. In this episode...

This is part 2 in a two blog post series about configuring Windows Phone Push Notifications for OpsMgr 2012. Please read blog post part 1 first , if you have not read this. Disclamer: I’ve this only tested on OM2012 SP1 and you need PowerShell v3 to have the script working. In this blog post we are going...

Source: Pavleck.Net Jeremy ( who is turning 32 on September 26 and is giving away presents ) blogged about SCOPE. S ystem C enter O psMgr P owershell E xtentions is a collaborative operation between Jeremy, Marco Shaw, Cameron Fuller, Pete Zerger and - you, possibly. They are at the very early stages...

Did you know there is a help topic about which cmdlets are new to Operations Manger 2012, which Operations Manager 2007 cmdlets have an equivalent Operations Manager 2012 cmdlet ("renamed" cmdlets), and Operations Manager 2007 cmdlets that have no Operations Manager 2012 equivalent ("deprecated"...

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...

One of the many blogposts on my todo list is about SMA ( Service Management Automation ) but I’m just too busy to blog right now. So sorry for the lack of blogposts lately. Did I mention we are looking for Premier Field Engineers in the Netherlands? Service Management Automation is a feature of the management...

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...

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...

Today we released the Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (pre-release). Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (pre-release) helps scripters find Windows PowerShell scripts, snippets, modules, and how-to guidance in online repositories such as the TechNet Script Center Repository...

Today I got a question from a co-worker about retrieving the monitored network devices by OM2012 using PowerShell. For Agents it’s pretty simple, you just use the Get-SCOMAgent Cmdlet and you have a nice overview of the Agents being monitored by OM2012. But which Cmdlet should you use to get an overview...

As you might have noticed I’ve been using Twitter quite often lately . On my previous weblog I installed a Drupal Twitter module for updating Twitter with my latest blog posts. But now I migrated to Technet Blogs I didn’t had this possibility anymore, so I looked for an easy way to have my latest blog...

Today I needed to compare two csv files with results from SQL queries from the OperationsManager database and the OperationsManagerDW database. I run the SQL queries on both OperationsManager databases and saved the result to a csv file. Now I needed to quickly compare the results from both csv files...

This time not a blog post about System Center but a blog post  on how to use Windows Key Combinations in Remote Desktop Sessions. I really love to use Windows Key Combination on my Windows 8 and Windows 2012 machines and one of my most favorite combinations is the Win+X combination. Check here for...

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...

Today I was playing around with some MP Authoring automation using PowerShell and I needed to retrieve the Management Pack Reference Alias within a Management Pack. If you export a Management Pack to XML using the Get-SCOMManagementPack Cmdlet you can view the XML file and its contents. Get - SCOMManagementPack...

Source: All About Interop Dino Chiesa is writing about PowerShell CMDLets for WebSphere. “It seems IBM have been busy doing CmdLets for MQ, and somehow this escaped my attention . Starting back in December 2007, Dale Lane at IBM published a series of posts about the topic of PowerShell CmdLets...

Ed Wilson has created a Scriptomatic PowerShell Version, which you can download here . This Scriptomatic writes Windows PowerShell scripts that harness the power of WMI (Windows Instrumentation Management) for use in system management and administration. It really has some nice features, like output...

Today I got a question from my fellow Premier Field Engineer Anders Bengtsson if I could help him with an OpsMgr PowerShell script he was creating for an Orchestrator Runbook he started to create. And while waiting for a PowerShell workshop I was about to deliver I booted my OM2012 servers and had a...