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Update to the Maintenance Mode Sample MP

Andrzej Lipka, a fellow consultant in Poland, took my maintenance mode sample MP and added some interesting features. Have a look at the specific post here . I also added a link to Andrzej's blog to my general list since he has some great posts on OpsMgr Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 7:59 AM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments
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Using Wildcards with the Windows Service Template

The Windows Service template in the Operations Console lets you discover and monitor a Windows service by doing little more than typing in the service name. I was just talking with someone who had a situation where the name of the service includes the Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 11:25 PM by Brian Wren | 3 Comments
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Scheduling Groups of Objects for Maintenance Mode

I was given a challenge recently to come up with a solution for an organization that wanted to suppress any alerts for certain computers and services during a particular time window every night. The particular set of objects and the times in question Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:08 AM by Brian Wren | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): bwren.MaintenanceMode.xml

Management Pack Authoring Guide (Told you)

Just a few days ago, I mentioned that the new Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Authoring Guide was going to be released "very soon". Sure enough, it's been posted at http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OM2007_AuthGuide.doc Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 5:33 PM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments
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Running PowerShell Scripts from a Management Pack - Part 1

Considering all my work with OpsMgr management packs and my infatuation with PowerShell, it's surprising that I've never put the two together in a public forum. I keep meaning to, just don't ever seem to get there. I finally committed myself to this blog Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:04 PM by Brian Wren | 2 Comments

Dynamically populating component groups in Operations Manager 2007 Distributed Applications

This is one I've been asked about several times and am finally getting around to blogging the answer. The Distributed Application Designer in Operations Manager 2007 makes creating and modifying distributed applications quite easy. You can create a component Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:29 PM by Brian Wren | 1 Comments
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Exporting Management Packs

Obviously, /a great way to learn how to author a management pack is to look at existing ones. The problem is that most of the interesting ones are sealed so you can't read the file, and the Operations Console won't allow you to export a sealed management Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:33 AM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments

Targeting Rules and Monitors

The concept of what target to use for a particular rule or monitor in OpsMgr 2007 seems to be one that people are struggling with. The confusion is most prevelant among people who have had experience with MOM 2005 since the methods have completely in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:33 AM by Brian Wren | 1 Comments
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