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One more MMS Follow Up

As I ran out of time in the MMS session, I quickly showed a script that listed all performance monitors and their thresholds. This came from the SharePoint Portal Server Management Pack Guide . The only change I made was to comment out the command to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:26 AM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): GetMonitorThresholds.ps1

Monitoring Object Properties

There has been some question about how to get properties for monitoring objects with Command Shell. I wanted to go into this in my MMS session last week, but I already ran out of time just trying to cram in all the topics I did cover. Shouldn't be too Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 03, 2008 2:10 PM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments
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Setting Maintenance Mode from an Agent

My apologies that I forgot to talk about this in my MMS session earlier today. I did mention it to a couple of people after the session. Derek Harkin came up with an interesting method for initiating maintenance mode from an agent. No OpsMgr client of Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:19 PM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments
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MMS Command Shell Presentation

As promised, here are all the samples that I am showing in my MMS session on Command Shell. There are also a several samples I'm planning on mentioning but won't have time to show. Hope it's helpful. Given the length of the this, chances are pretty good Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:28 AM by Brian Wren | 1 Comments
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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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Great Minds Think Alike

I just got done with my previous post on setting maintenance mode for a group of objects, and I happened to check Boris Yanushpolsky's blog . Bori's blog is an outstanding reference for various Command Shell scripts, and I have to give him credit for Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:46 PM by Brian Wren | 8 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 | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): bwren.MaintenanceMode.xml

Command Shell Presentation at MMS 2008

I will be doing a presentation at the upcoming MMS 2008 titled Administrative Scenarios using the Operations Manager 2007 Command Shell. This is a bit of a departure for me since I've presented several times at MMS but usually on management packs and Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:24 PM by Brian Wren | 1 Comments
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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

Where did I get the documentation?

I've been asked a few times where I got all the information behind the different management pack related posts I've done. I actually don't have any more access to documentation than anyone else. I come across this information through www.authormps.com Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 16, 2008 10:53 PM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments
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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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Manually Resetting a Monitor

You may have noticed that all monitors in OpsMgr 2007 have an option called Reset Health. The problem you may have encountered with this option is that it doesn't do anything on most monitors. It will typically only work on monitors that were created Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:33 AM by Brian Wren | 0 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
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