Monthly Archives: January 2018

SCOM 1801 New Features (previously 1711 Technical Preview)

  What does the new SCOM bring?!   HTML5 Web Dashboards! here What’s New https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/what-is-new-1801?view=sc-om-1801 The SCOM Team published a 5 set blog post on Web Console https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/momteam/2018/02/12/new-scom-web-console-blog-series-post1/   The new SCOM version also gives visibility into Management Packs Updates and Recommendations Operations Manager Products (view SCOM topology) Partner Solutions   For now I’ll focus on […]

Lync 2013 Addendum Management Pack

Continuing the Addendum tradition 🙂 Lync couldn’t be forgotten.   To understand options and methods available on the Server and SCOM, re-read the Active Directory Addendum blog     Lync 2013 Now that we understand the methods available, let’s get to the Addendum.     The Addendum pack has 32 Recovery Tasks for Lync Service […]

Skype for Business 2015 (SfB) Addendum Management Pack

    Continuing the Addendum tradition 🙂 Skype was next on the list.   To understand options and methods available on the Server and SCOM, re-read the Active Directory Addendum blog     Skype for Business 2015 (SfB) Now that we understand the methods available, let’s get to the Addendum. This Skype Addendum MP adds Recovery […]

Active Directory 2012-2016 Addendum Management Pack

A Post-it note is like an addendum, no?     As an Operations engineer, how many times do you get notified for a service restart?   Did you know about Service Recovery actions, or SCOM Recovery Tasks?   Why didn’t the SCOM Recovery tasks get added to many of the common Microsoft Applications?     Hopefully today, […]

Windows Server Dashboards

These are some cool Dashboards brought to the community by Satya Vel a few years ago.   This was brought to my attention for Dashboard functionality from SCOM 2012R2 to provide visibility for Windows Computer Health state After a history lesson, I had to find the source! 256 cores increased the limit in Windows Server 2008R2 Prior […]

OpsMgr 1801 All in One – Quick Start Deployment Guide

Maybe you want to play with the new SCOM version like me?   Following Kevin Holman’s Quick Start Deployment Guide for SCOM 2016, build out an All in One   High Level Deployment Process: 1.  In AD,  note the ID’s and groups used for Operations Manager for the technical preview 2.  Install Windows Server 2016 to all […]

SCOM 1801 dashboards (previously 1711)

Here dashboard dashboard <dong> Come out, come out wherever you are!     Looking at SCOM dashboards in the new Technical Preview had me wondering. I was totally excited after Ignite for System Center v.Next…           Start at 16:34 in video – BRK1023 https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/54778     Found the documents before I found the actual widgets HTML5 overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/manage-overview-html5-webconsole?view=sc-om-1801 […]