I uploaded v2.51 of the Orchesrator Remote Tools CodePlex: http://orchestrator.codeplex.com/releases Main new feature is the "Turbo" mode for the CLI launcher, which allows direct remote execution of the runbooks, without using a XML file at all. Obviously...

Note : This tool is now at v2.51 : See http://blogs.technet.com/b/yasc/archive/2011/12/13/orchestrator-remote-tools-2-5.aspx The "Orchestrator Remote Tools" are the follow up to my "Opalis UI Generator" from Opalis, but with many enhancements :...

I have uploaded v1.3 of the Opalis VSD Generator on CodePlex. At the same time, I renamed the tool to reflect the Word export capabilities and also the new support for Orchestrator (RC release). http://orchestrator.codeplex.com/releases/view/75824...

This management pack adds first level of monitoring for the Dynamic Memory feature that shipped with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. It detects which virtual machines are Dynamic Memory-enabled, and adds a subclass to these VMs to monitor and...

This is the latest version of the Scheduled Tasks MP. This version was published in April 2010 on OpsManJam, and I am bringing it over here, in the same place as the previous versions. This MP discovers and monitors instances of the Task Scheduler...

Here is the Automatic Services MP . It was originally released in April 2010 on OpsManJam, and I thought I would also bring it over here. This is the same version that was on OpsManJam. Description for the MP: By default, System Center Operations...

Note : This tool is now at v1.3, which is both compatible with Opalis and Orchestrator. See this blog post for more details : http://blogs.technet.com/b/yasc/archive/2011/10/28/orchestrator-visio-and-word-generator-v1-3-fka-quot-opalis-vsd-generator-quot...

Update : This tool is now at v1.2 and can actually be downloaded from CodePlex : http://opalis.codeplex.com/releases/view/57084 See also this updated blog post for new features in v1.2 : http://blogs.technet.com/b/yasc/archive/2010/12/14/opalis-vsd...

Note : This tool is now at v2.5 and is compatible with System Center Orchestrator : See http://blogs.technet.com/b/yasc/archive/2011/12/13/orchestrator-remote-tools-2-5.aspx . You should stick with the Opalis UI Generator 1.1 if you are using Opalis though...

Update : This tool is now at v1.1, see this post for the new version and the actual download : http://blogs.technet.com/b/yasc/archive/2010/11/28/opalis-ui-generator-v1-1.aspx There are several ways to trigger Opalis workflows remotely, but some...

Here is a quick update for AILW. The only change is the ability to specify a non-default Configuration Manager database. If you are using the default SMS_<Site Code> naming convention, you don't need to use this version. Again, feedback...

Update : This tool is now at v1.4, see this post : http://blogs.technet.com/b/yasc/archive/2010/09/18/asset-intelligence-license-wizard-v1-4.aspx Version 1.3 is attached and should the last version for a while (unless fixes are needed). This versions...

Update : This tool is now at v1.4, see this post : http://blogs.technet.com/b/yasc/archive/2010/09/18/asset-intelligence-license-wizard-v1-4.aspx Attached to this post is version 1.2 of AILW, with the following changelog: Support for SCCM...

Update : This tool is now at v1.4, see this post : http://blogs.technet.com/b/yasc/archive/2010/09/18/asset-intelligence-license-wizard-v1-4.aspx The “Asset Intelligence License Wizard”(AILW) is tool to help manage non-Microsoft licenses...

There is a logical disk free space custom MP on systemcentercetral.com. It solves some issues with the default logical disk free space in the base OS MP, where both % and MB thresholds have to be met before an alert is fired. The new custom MP relies...

There are some good task scheduler MPs out there, but this didn't prevent from updating this one :-) It's also a good way to practice MP development! So here the latest version of this MP (v1.0.0.15), including some changes from Vincent at PI Services...

It was buried in the comments, but Ziemek expanded this MP to add some memory counters as well. Check it out at : http://ziembor.pl/post/EN-Management-Pack-for-IIS-Application-Performance.aspx !

So, there hasn't been any updates in a while, that's the least to say :-) Anyway, this blog is more about giving some tools around System Center, as there are already plenty of good resources out there, like the new systemcentercentral web site. I...

IIS application pools run under separate W3WP.EXE processes (called “worker processes”). Monitoring CPU performance for application pools mean monitoring the processor performance for these processes. The tricky part though is that you have to determine...

Here is a MP to quickly test event log and script-based monitoring (well...there's only one monitor which is script-based, so maybe this post should be titled "sample MP for events" only :-)) The MP has monitors like these (and has the tasks to trigger...

Where will you get the most detailed information on the Asset Intelligence feature and its upcoming enhancements (v1.5 in SP1)? You should start here : http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2125094&SiteID=17 This forum gets...

Although there is a virtual machine ready to use on www.microsoft.com/vhd , many people like to get theirs hands on a product first by installing it. I don't mean this post to be very detailed in each step, so please consider this more of an unofficial...

There are several community-developped MPs to monitor scheduled tasks out there. There is one from Raphael Burri : http://rburri.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/windows-scheduled-tasks-management-pack-for-opsmgr-2007/ There is one from Innovativ : http...

OK, so this is yet another System Center blog... Well not exactly...I wont try to bother you with news already available in other sources, and I don't plan to post ten times a day. I'll try to focus on sharing some stuff I use every day for demos...