Microsoft Bloggers

Nathan Gau (https://aka.ms/NathanGau)

Securing SCOM in a Privilege Tiered Access Model–Part 2

Securing SCOM in a Privilege Tiered Access Model–Part 1

Configuring SCOM to Monitor Dell Storage Solutions

Community Bloggers

Marnix Wolf (http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/)

SCOM 1801: Key Facts Webinar

Migrating To Azure? Avoid 'Lift & Shift'. 'Lift & Transform' Is The Way To Go

OMS: Data Volume Cap

What's In a Name? System Center 2019 aka SCOM 18/19xy

SCOM Reporting Done Right – Join Savision's 'SCOM Reporting Essentials' Webinar

Management Packs

Microsoft System Center Management Pack (Community Technology Preview) for SQL Server

Version: 7.0.8.0

Released: 7/2/2018

Version: Microsoft System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2014 Reporting Services (Native Mode)

Version: 7.0.8.0

Released: 7/2/2018

Microsoft System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (Native Mode)

Version: 7.0.8.0

Released: 7/2/2018

Microsoft System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services (Native Mode)

Version: 7.0.8.0

Released: 7/2/2018

Microsoft System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services

Version: 7.0.8.0

Released: 7/2/2018

Microsoft System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Native Mode)

Version: 7.0.8.0

Released: 7/2/2018

Microsoft System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

Version: 7.0.8.0

Released: 7/2/2018

Microsoft System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2014 Analysis Services

Version: 7.0.8.0

Released: 7/2/2018

Microsoft System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services

Version: 7.0.8.0

Released: 7/2/2018

Microsoft System Center Management Packs (Community Technology Preview) for SQL Server 2017+ Reporting Services and Analysis Services

Version: 7.0.8.0

Released: 7/2/2018

System Center Management Packs for Open Source Software

Version: 7.7.1129.0

Released: 7/12/2018

Microsoft System Center 2016 Management Pack for Microsoft Azure

Version: 1.5.20.18

Released: 7/3/2018

Microsoft System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System 2016 and 1709 Plus

Version: 10.0.21.0

Released: 6/15/2018

SquaredUp (https://squaredup.com)

How to create actionable SCOM reports in minutes!

Savision (https://www.savision.com/)

Manage Large-Scaled PRTG Environments with Savision

TechNet Gallery

How to configure SCOM HTML Notifications Alerts from Orchestrator 2012/16

SCOM - OMS Gateway Monitoring Addendum Management Pack

Lynne Taggart here with another Operations Manager update. I haven’t had the time to catch up on blogging in the last few months with everything on my plate, but here we go.

Like always bookmark & remember you can access my blog by typing //aka.ms/allthat

All content provided by this blog is for informational purposes only and it is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Always test in a lab first before implementing into your production. The use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified in the Terms of Use. The owner of this blog makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site. The opinions and views expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily state or reflect those of Microsoft.

Latest Releases

• Update Rollup 5 for Operations Manager 2016

• Issues that are fixed and improvements that are included

• SCOM console and Service Manager console for PowerShell modules can now coexist on the same server.
  Note Both SCOM Update Rollup 5 (this update) and Service Manager Update Rollup 5 (update KB 4093685) must be installed to resolve this issue.
• Active Directory Integration rules are not visible or editable in an upgraded 2016 Management Group. This prevents the ongoing management of Active Directory integration assignment in the upgraded Management Group.
• When the UNIX host name on the server is in lowercase, the OS and MonitoredBy information is displayed incorrectly in the Unix/Linux Computers view.
• Active Directory integrated agents do not display correct failover server information.
• Performance views in the web console do not persist the selection of counters after web console restart or refresh.
• The PowerShell cmdlet Get-SCXAgent fails with error “This cmdlet requires PowerShell version 3.0 or greater.”
• During the upgrade from SCOM 2016 to SCOM 1801, if the reporting server is installed on a server other than the management server, the upgrade fails. Additionally, you receive the error message, "The management server to which this component reports has not been upgraded."
• If a group name has been changed through the operations console, the Get-SCOMGroup cmdlet does not retrieve the group data that includes the changed group name.
• Error HTTP 500 occurs when you access Diagram view through the web console.
• When you download a Linux management pack after you upgrade to SCOM 2016, the error "OpsMgr Management Configuration Service failed to process configuration request (Xml configuration file or management pack request)" occurs.

• The SQLCommand Timeout property is exposed so that it can be dynamically adjusted by users to manage random and expected influx of data scenarios.

• The MonitoringHost process crashes and returns the exception "System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for an Int32."

• When company knowledge is edited by using the Japanese version of Microsoft Office through the SCOM console, the error (translated in English) "Failed to launch Microsoft Word. Please make sure Microsoft Word is installed. Here is the error message: Item with specified name does not exist" occurs.
• Accessing Silverlight dashboards displays the "Web Console Configuration Required" message because of a certificate issue.
• Microsoft.SystemCenter.ManagementPack.Recommendations causes errors to be logged on instances of Microsoft SQL Server that have case-sensitive collations.
• Deep monitoring displays error “Discovery_Not_Found” if the installation of JBoss application server is customized.
• Adds support for the Lancer driver on IBM Power 8 Servers that use AIX.
• The ComputerOptInCompatibleMonitor monitor is disabled in the Microsoft.SystemCenter.Advisor.Internal management pack. This monitor is no longer valid.

• 4090987 - Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2016 Operations Manager
  

Microsoft Bloggers

System Center Operations Manager Team (https://aka.ms/SCOMTeam)

• Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2016 Service Management Automation is now available
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Keven Holman (https://aka.ms/kevinholman or https://aka.ms/SuperPFE)

• Implementing TLS 1.2 enforcement with SCOM
• Deleting and Purging data from the SCOM Database
• UR5 for SCOM 2016 – Step by Step
  

Kevin Justin (https://aka.ms/kjustin)

Bruno Gabrielli (https://aka.ms/brunoG)

Michael Repperger - https://aka.ms/omx

Sertac Topal (https://aka.ms/Sertac)

Silvana Deac (https://aka.ms/Silvana)

Stefan Stranger (https://aka.ms/SStranger)

Tim McFadden (https://www.scom2k7.com)

• Are you annoyed when working in the SCOM console and the console window disappears to the background?
  

Tyson Paul (https://aka.ms/tysonpaul)

• Class Viewer: An Easy Way to View Class Hierarchy and Hosting Relationships in the Operations Manager Console
  

Nathan Gau (https://aka.ms/NathanGau)

• Future Plans/Requests for Security Monitoring MP
• Updated Security Monitoring MP is Now Available
• Security Monitoring Change Log

Antoni Hanus (https://aka.ms/antonih)

Wei H Lim (https://aka.ms/weioutthere)

Nicole Welch (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nicole_welch/)

Said Nikjou (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axinthefield/)

Jarrett Renshaw

Philip Van de Vyver (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/philipvandevyver/)

SQL Server Release Service (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/)

Laura Park (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/laurapark/)

• Troubleshooting SCOM discovery – a thorough how-to
• A high-level comparison of monitoring Windows OS with SCOM / OMS and Azure
• Search SCOM subscriptions for a specific string
• Effective monitoring in SCOM

Udish (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/udishmudiar/)

• Monitoring SCOM Management Servers and Gateways using PowerShell
• SCOM Management Server grayed out with event description “A module of type “System.DataSubscriber” reported an error 0x80FF0003″
• Unable to access library share from VMM Management Server
• PowerShell script to get UR version of all SCOM 2012 R2 Component
• SCOM Cross Domain ACS Collector and Forwarder Configuration
• Monitoring SCOM Management Servers and Gateways using PowerShell

Community Bloggers

Bob Cornelissen (https://www.bictt.com/blogs/)

Cameron Fuller (http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/author/cfuller/)

Kevin Greene (http://kevingreeneitblog.blogspot.com/)

Marnix Wolf (http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/)

Tao Yang (https://blog.tyang.org/)

Adutum

• Windows Admin Center with SquaredUp/SCOM

Management Packs

•  System Center Management Pack for Active Directory Federation Services

• Version: 10.0.1.0
• Released: 5/11/2018

• Version: 7.1.10100.1
• Released: 5/10/2018

• Version: 1.0.1.0
• Released: 5/14/2018

• Kevin Holman (Microsoft)
• Version: 7.0.0.53
• Released: 5/6/2018

• Nathan Gau (Microsoft)
• Version:
• Released: 5/4/2018

• Version: 1.0.3.0
• Released: 5/15/2018

Silect (https://www.silect.com)

• MP Author Version 8.2
  

SquaredUp (https://squaredup.com)

• Here's why everyone loves Donuts!
• IIS Log Management with SCOM and Squared Up
• Manage very remote services with SCOM

Savision (https://www.savision.com/)

• Online Session: Migrating to SCOM 1801
  

TechNet Gallery

• Kevin Holman (Microsoft)

• SCOM Management Properties and Tasks Pack for Agents and Server Roles - This is a little example MP for some things that are possible with SCOM.  It also serves as a good example MP on how to write classes, discoveries, and most importantly many task examples for command line, VBscript, and PowerShell.I didn’t write all these – a bunch of ideas came.
• Script to automate TLS 1.2 support in SCOM 2012R and SCOM 2016 - This is a script that will assist in the automation of configuring TLS 1.2 support for SCOM 2012R2 and SCOM2016It will:1. Ensure the environment is supported for TLS 1.22. Ensure the SCOM Roles are patched with the correct UR level3. Ensure that SQL is a supported version for TLS

• Security Monitoring Management Pack for SCOM - This is the updated MP for released 5/4/2018. I've pulled the original MP off of TechNet. This is also available for download with Squared Up's community MP

• Class Viewer: An Easy Way to View Class Hierarchy and Hosting Relationships in the Operations Manager Console - Up until now there has been no easy way to get a good, visual perspective on the classes and hosting relationships that exist in your SCOM management group. I introduce ClassViewer: a script that will add a Web Page view into your Monitoring workspace so that you can see all classes in your management group as well as properties and hosting relationships.

• SCCM Service Window to SCOM Maintenance Mode Automation Management Pack - This Management Pack provides SCOM Maintenance Mode Automation functionality based upon SCCM Service Windows found in WMI. It gathers the data on the Agent side delivers it to the Agent's Management Server to place the system into Maintenance Mode.

• UNIX/Linux Docker Monitoring - This management pack allows you to monitor on-premise  Docker containers hosted on UNIX/Linux computers. It has basic functionality: Daemon state monitoring Container state monitoring Collects container CPU usage Collects container memory usage For monitoring your Docker in
• Alert Rule Mp Fragment for Disk - Alert Rule SCOM Mp Fragment for Disk. Modified and tested in SCOM 2012 SP1 and R2. If you want fragment for CPU then you can download it from below link https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Alert-Rule-MP-Fragment-for-ad9e5091
• PowerShell Script to get current overview of all downloadable Management Packs - This PowerShell lists all available SCOM Management Packs you can find on the Microsoft Download website. It creates a table with all downloads. There are some configuration parameters you can use to change the sort order in the output.
• Alert Rule Mp Fragment for CPU - Alert Rule SCOM Mp Fragment for Disk. Modified and tested in SCOM 2012 SP1 and R2.
• SCOM TLS 1.2 Validation MP to validate if Windows Agents have TLS 1.2 Enabled - All,One of my Customer requested he get a MP, Once imported will display his Agents where TLS 1.2 Is enabled and SSL 2.0, 3.0, TLS 1.0, 1.1 is disabled.Since the TLS 1.2 is enabled and older protocols are disabled via registry.
  

Knowledge Opportunity / Mind Growth

Lynne Taggart here with another Operations Manager update. I haven’t had the time to catch up on blogging in the last few months with everything on my plate, but here we go.

Like always bookmark & remember you can access my blog by typing //aka.ms/allthat

All content provided by this blog is for informational purposes only and it is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Always test in a lab first before implementing into your production. The use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified in the Terms of Use. The owner of this blog makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site. The opinions and views expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily state or reflect those of Microsoft.

Latest Releases

• Update Rollup 5 For System Center Operations Manager 2016

• SCOM console and Service Manager console for PowerShell modules can now coexist on the same server.
  Note Both SCOM Update Rollup 5 (this update) and Service Manager Update Rollup 5 (update KB 4093685) must be installed to resolve this issue.
• Active Directory Integration rules are not visible or editable in an upgraded 2016 Management Group. This prevents the ongoing management of Active Directory integration assignment in the upgraded Management Group.
• When the UNIX host name on the server is in lowercase, the OS and MonitoredBy information is displayed incorrectly in the Unix/Linux Computers view.
• Active Directory integrated agents do not display correct failover server information.
• Performance views in the web console do not persist the selection of counters after web console restart or refresh.
• The PowerShell cmdlet Get-SCXAgent fails with error “This cmdlet requires PowerShell version 3.0 or greater.”
• During the upgrade from SCOM 2016 to SCOM 1801, if the reporting server is installed on a server other than the management server, the upgrade fails. Additionally, you receive the error message, "The management server to which this component reports has not been upgraded."
• If a group name has been changed through the operations console, the Get-SCOMGroup cmdlet does not retrieve the group data that includes the changed group name.
• Error HTTP 500 occurs when you access Diagram view through the web console.
• When you download a Linux management pack after you upgrade to SCOM 2016, the error "OpsMgr Management Configuration Service failed to process configuration request (Xml configuration file or management pack request)" occurs.The SQLCommand Timeout property is exposed so that it can be dynamically adjusted by users to manage random and expected influx of data scenarios.The MonitoringHost process crashes and returns the exception "System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for an Int32."
• When company knowledge is edited by using the Japanese version of Microsoft Office through the SCOM console, the error (translated in English) "Failed to launch Microsoft Word. Please make sure Microsoft Word is installed. Here is the error message: Item with specified name does not exist" occurs.
• Accessing Silverlight dashboards displays the "Web Console Configuration Required" message because of a certificate issue.
• Microsoft.SystemCenter.ManagementPack.Recommendations causes errors to be logged on instances of Microsoft SQL Server that have case-sensitive collations.
• Deep monitoring displays error “Discovery_Not_Found” if the installation of JBoss application server is customized.
• Adds support for the Lancer driver on IBM Power 8 Servers that use AIX.
• The ComputerOptInCompatibleMonitor monitor is disabled in the Microsoft.SystemCenter.Advisor.Internal management pack. This monitor is no longer valid.

• 4090987 Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2016 Operations Manager

Microsoft Bloggers

System Center Operations Manager Team (https://aka.ms/SCOMTeam)

• Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2016 Operations Manager is released
• In case you missed it! The latest System Center release, version 1801, is here.
• System Center 1801 Operations Manager – Enhanced log file monitoring for Linux Servers
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 5/5): Sample Custom Dashboard walkthrough
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 4/5): The all new Drilldown experience
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 3/5): The new HTML5 Widgets
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 2/5): The all new Dashboards
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 1/5): Overview
• Update and Recommendation feature supports Management Packs from SCOM Management Pack partners!

Keven Holman (https://aka.ms/kevinholman or https://aka.ms/SuperPFE)

• Monitoring AD Certificate Services on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016
• What versions of SCOM can be upgraded to Operations Manager 1801?
• Operations Manager 1801 – Quickstart Deployment Guide
• Operations Manager 1801 is available!

Kevin Justin (https://aka.ms/kjustin)

• System Center Orchestrator 1801 Integration Packs
• OMS Heartbeat failures and creating alerts
• SQL MP bloat
• 2016 SQL SP1 patch issue

Bruno Gabrielli (https://aka.ms/brunoG)

• How to deal with Scheduled Maintenance Mode and SQL Always On

Michael Repperger - https://aka.ms/omx

• Orphaned Service Broker Queues in the SCOM Database

Sertac Topal (https://aka.ms/Sertac)

• Failed to publish sms client to WSUS, error = 0x80131509
• System Center Mart 2018 Bülten

Silvana Deac (https://aka.ms/Silvana)

• [SCOM] AccessDeniedException SSRS SQL 2016

Stefan Stranger (https://aka.ms/SStranger)

• Access my Docker for Windows Kubernetes Cluster from Debian WSL
• Lessons learned deploying Azure MarketPlace Virtual Machine
• Installing Azure CLI on Debian GNU/Linux for WSL

Tim McFadden (https://www.scom2k7.com)

• Announcing the SCOM Self Service Portal

Tyson Paul (https://aka.ms/tysonpaul)

• Visual Studio ‘Failed to verify module reference’ Authoring SCOM Management Pack, VSAE
• SCOM: Export Rules, Monitors, Overrides, Settings, Effective Monitoring Configuration with PowerShell

Nathan Gau (https://aka.ms/NathanGau)

• In Place Upgrading the SSRS for SCOM
• Updating GPO Monitoring in Security Monitoring for MSFT AGPM
• Distributing SCOM Run As Accounts and Security Implications
• Security Monitoring: Using SCOM to detect NTLMv1 and LanManager Authentication Types
• Security Monitoring: A Possible New Way to Detect Privilege Escalation

Antoni Hanus (https://aka.ms/antonih)

• Operations Manager and Operations Management Suite 101: Useful System Center Operations Manager Links and Resources
• System Center 2016 – Operations Manager and Operations Management Suite (OMS) 101 Series
• Operations Manager 101: Create an Event Collection Rule for Monitoring Server Restarts
• Operations Manager 101: How do I know what parameters are available in an event to monitor off?
• Operations Manager 101: How do I run a report for a performance counter that Operations Manager is collecting?
• Operations Manager 101: How do I create a performance monitor to monitor if a performance counter sample exceeds a threshold?
• Operations Manager 101: How do I create a rule to collect performance data that is not already collected in a management pack, and show it in the graphs in Operations Manager?
• Operations Manager 101: How do I know if Operations Manager is collecting a specific performance counter?
• Operations Manager 101: How do I create a rule to be alerted on a scenario such as a user been added to domain admins?
• Operations Manager 101: How do I disable or tune something in Operations Manager?
• Operations Manager 101: How do I get more detail on what is in my Technology’s Management Pack?
• Operations Manager 101: Something Shows as Red / Critical or Warning / Yellow in a State View. How do I check why this is?
• Operations Management Suite 101: Create an OMS Workspace and add Agents to it.
• Operations Manager 101: Where do I see Views / Monitoring / Alerts etc. for my technology?
• Operations Manager 101: How Do I Generate a Top ‘n’ Performance Report?
• Operations Manager 101: How do I create a Subscription which will notify when a given alert occurs.
• Operations Manager 101: Create an Event Collection Rule for Monitoring Server Restarts
• Operations Management Suite 101: Log Analytics Queries 101
• Operations Manager Suite 101: Useful Operations Management Suite / Azure Log Analytics Links and Resources
• Operations Manager and Operations Management Suite 101: BETTER TOGETHER!

Wei H Lim (https://aka.ms/weioutthere)

• ACS Reports to Log Analytics Search Queries Mapping Updated with KQL
• Log Analytics: Displaying a Value for Calculated Percentage (%) on a Custom Number Tile or View

Nicole Welch (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nicole_welch/)

• Comparing OMS/Log Analytics and SCOM
• The Importance of a Growth Mindset in a Technology First World
• Azure Automation–Using Sample Runbooks in Azure Government

Said Nikjou (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axinthefield/)

• Monitoring Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 with System Center Operation Manager 2016
• AX Performance Monitor 101 – Tips and tricks to deal with performance counter files
• High CPU Performance issue in SQL Server 2016/2017

Jarrett Renshaw

• Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2016 Service Manager is released
• Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager is released
• Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2016 Orchestrator is released

Philip Van de Vyver (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/philipvandevyver/)

• SCOM – OMS Gateway Monitoring Addendum Management Pack

SQL Server Release Service (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/)

• SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2) released !!!
• Cumulative Update #6 for SQL Server 2017 RTM
• Released: Microsoft Azure SQL Database Management Pack (7.0.4.0)
• Released: System Center Management Packs for SQL Server 2008-2016 (7.0.4.0)
• Released: Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server
• Cumulative Update #5 for SQL Server 2017 RTM
• Cumulative Update #11 for SQL Server 2014 SP2
• Cumulative Update #8 for SQL Server 2016 SP1
• Released: Public Preview for SQL Server Management Packs Update (7.0.3.0)
• Cumulative Update #4 for SQL Server 2017 RTM
• Public Preview: Azure SQL Database – Managed Instance Management Pack
• Released: System Center Management Packs for SQL Server 2008-2016 (7.0.2.0)

Community Bloggers

Bob Cornelissen (https://www.bictt.com/blogs/)

• Webinar Migrating to SCOM 1801
• New ebook SCOM Reporting guide

Cameron Fuller (http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/author/cfuller/)

• Replacing GSM in SCOM with Application Insights
• MMS 2018 looks like it is going to be a wild technology ride!
• Adding alerts for Log Analytics in Azure
• Extending alerts for Log Analytics into Azure

Kevin Greene (http://kevingreeneitblog.blogspot.com/)

• Speaking at the Global Azure Bootcamp 2018
• SCOM 1801 Has Just Been Released!
• SCOM 'Updates and Recommendations' Feature Now Supports External Partner MP's
• SCOM 2016 and OMS '101' Series

Marnix Wolf (http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/)

• SCOM 1801: Key Facts Webinar
• Goodbye Project Honolulu, Hello Windows Admin Center
• Migrating To Azure? Avoid ‘Lift & Shift’. ‘Lift & Transform’ Is The Way To Go.
• OMS: Data Volume Cap
• What’s In a Name? System Center 2019 aka SCOM 18/19xy
• SCOM Reporting Done Right – Join Savision’s ‘SCOM Reporting Essentials’ Webinar
• Free Azure Training Resources
• Project Honolulu: No SCOM/OMS Replacement

Tao Yang (https://blog.tyang.org/)

• OpsMgrExtended PowerShell module is now on GitHub and PSGallery

Management Packs

• Microsoft System Center Management Pack for Microsoft Azure SQL Database
• Microsoft System Center Management Pack for AD CS 2016
• Microsoft System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System 2016 and 1709 Plus
• System Center Management Packs for Data Protection Manager Reporting, Discovery and Monitoring
• Microsoft System Center 1801+ Management Pack for Service Provider Foundation (SPF)
• Microsoft System Center 1801+ Management Pack for Orchestrator
• Microsoft System Center 1801+ Management Pack for Service Management Automation
• Microsoft System Center Management Pack (Community Technology Preview) for Microsoft Azure SQL Database – Managed Instance

Silect (https://www.silect.com)

• What’s in a Name (or Version Number)? - With each release of Operations Manager, Microsoft updates the management packs (MPs) that are delivered with the product. Each MP has a name, which doesn’t change, and a version number that should change. As each MP is updated, the version number should be changed to indicate that there is a newer version of the MP.
• TFS Compared to Silect Management Pack Store - Silect Store is a database used by Silect to store management packs (MPs), test results, preferences, and other information used by MP Studio. Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a source control repository from Microsoft which is used to store source code and other files. Some customers have wondered about the relative merits of using TFS to store MPs compared to Silect Store. There are some things in common between the two solutions (storing multiple versions of files in a hierarchical structure), but this report will concentrate on the differences.
• MP Studio / MP Author Professional Version 8.2 - Silect announced the General Availability of MP Studio and MP Author Professional version 8.2. Silect made lots of updates and improvements to the products

SquaredUp (https://squaredup.com)

• What's it like to be a Developer at Squared Up? - To give you an insight into what life is like as a developer at Squared Up, we're pleased to share an interview with Wayne Plummer, Lead Developer. Wayne is one of our most experienced developers and is infamous for his dad jokes! Check out what he has to say about working at Squared Up, development as a career, and how much it has changed since his first job.
• 3 awesome ways to use your SCOM Data Warehouse - This technical tutorial webinar provides an introduction to querying your SCOM Data Warehouse, together with examples of some of the awesome insights you can glean from it.
• v3.4 - Donuts, Dashboard Export, Azure Log Analytics and more – SquaredUp officially announce the release of the latest version of Squared Up, v3.4. New features included in the v3.4 release are: The awesome Donut Tile, Dashboard Export to Excel, Azure Log Analytics Tile, Azure Application Insights Tile.
• SCOM MP University... coming to a desktop screen near you! - Silect have announced that their popular SCOM MP University will make its return on May 9, 2018 and we're delighted to have been invited to present.

TechNet Gallery

• SCCM Service Window to SCOM Maintenance Mode Automation Management Pack (Jason Daggett- Microsoft) - This management pack was designed with two parts. These parts, contained in a single Rule and one Data Source Method, were broken up to provide System Center Operations Manager with the ability of automatically placing a system into Maintenance Mode using System Center Configuration Manager Service Windows. 
• SCOM: Export Effective Monitoring Configuration with PowerShell (Tyson Paul- Microsoft) - Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration does not output ALL contained instance configurations even when the "-RecurseContainedObjects"  parameter is used. Yes, really!  It outputs configuration data for only one instance of each particular type, be it a logical disk or Ethernet adapter etc., you only get monitor and rule configuration output for one of a kind in the resulting .csv file. If you have three logical disks (i.e. C:, D:, E:) you will only see configuration data for one of those, whichever one gets enumerated first by the cmdlet.
• Install Linux on OMS and SCOM (on-boarding Linux Systems in OMS) (GouravIN) - Document for installing OMS agent on Linux
• SCOM Alerts Query (GouravIN) - documents on SCOM alerts.with the help of this document we can fetch crtical, warning , open, closed alerts from Database or Powershell.
• Error 1714 : System Error 1612. (GouravIN)  - The Older version of Microsoft Monitoring Agent cannot be removed. Contact your technical support group. System Error 1612. In this article I have covered the step by step process to fix the above issue during agent upgrade. We can apply this when we cannot uninstall agent on server and as well install new on server this will help us.
• SCOM SQL Performance Rule Bloat (Kevin Justin - Microsoft) - Read the blog  https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/kevinjustin/2018/03/02/sql-mp-bloat/  to see how much data the SQL packs add to your SCOM database and DW aggregating from ~60 to ~200 performance counters (depending on which SQL MP version(s) you are running.
• LAPS Solution for Microsoft OMS (Adin Ermie) - This is a pre-built solution for the Operations Management Suite  (www.microsoft.com/oms),  to visualize the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) events. This solution requires the OMS Security and Audit solution to be enabled first, as it leverages the collected Security Logs. To add this solution to your OMS Workspace, use the View Designer and add this view. For full details on the creations of this Solution, see http://adinermie.com/laps-oms-solution/
• Office 365 Supplemental Management Pack V1 (Brian Zoucha – MSFT) Updated - The Office 365 Supplemental Management Pack includes synthetic transactions that provide an increased level of visibility into the health of the Office 365 environment.
• Server Performance Solution for Microsoft Log Analytics (Cameron Fuller) Updated - This is a pre-built server performance solution for Microsoft OMS (www.microsoft.com/oms). To add this solution, use the view designer and add this view. Then add the following Windows performance counters on the settings page: Logical Disk(*)\% Free Space Logical Disk(*)\Free
• Cireson Portal & Cache Builder Management Pack for SCOM 2012 R2 – 2016 (GavSpeed) Updated -

This Management Pack provides discovery, monitoring and alerting for all the key supporting components of Cireson Portal instances

Knowledge Opportunity / Mind Growth

• Silect: MP University MAY 9, 2018 from 9AM to 4PM  CEST - Join Microsoft, Silect and other industry leading partners for this free 1 day event on Management Pack Authoring, SCOM and Microsoft Azure. Learn MP authoring best practices, how to leverage Fragments, how to optimize SCOM performance, what’s new in SCOM 1801, Azure management and much much more! Speakers include industry experts Brian Wren, Kevin Holman and Aditya Goda from Microsoft, Jonas Lenntun from Approved Consulting, Matthew Long and Nathan Foreman from Squared Up, Mike Sargent from Silect and more.

AdityaGoda wrote a great series on the new SCOM Web Console released in System Center Operations Manager 1801.
The series is divided into different parts and it is recommended to read them in order for better understanding.

Big KUDOS to Aditya.

• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 1/5): Overview
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 2/5): The all new Dashboards
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 3/5): The new HTML5 Widgets
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 4/5): The all new Drilldown experience
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 5/5): Sample Custom Dashboard walkthrough

I have some other post for you to check out if you are interested in more:

• 1801+ Management Packs and Evaluation VHDs

Here is where the you are able to find Operations Manager documentation:

• Getting Started with System Center - Operations Manager
• Planning for System Center - Operations Manager
• Deploying System Center - Operations Manager
• System Center - Operations Manager Operations Guide
• Management Pack Authoring Guide for Operations Manager

I wanted to share out these downloads for Orchestrator. I will try to post any others that I come across here as well.

System Center 1801+ Integration Pack for HP iLO and OA

System Center 1801+ - Orchestrator Integration Packs

System Center 1801+ Integration Pack for HP Service Manager

System Center 1801+ Integration Pack for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus

System Center 1801+ Integration Pack for VMware vSphere

System Center 1801+ Integration Pack for HP Operations Manager

Lynne Taggart here and I thought I would link everything just release on 1801+ here as a quick reference. I’ll try to keep this updated as more stuff is released.

- Updated with AdityaGoda blog series on the new Web Console.

1801+ VHDs

• System Center Data Protection Manager, version 1801 – Evaluation (VHD)
• System Center Operations Manager, version 1801 – Evaluation (VHD)
• System Center Orchestrator, version 1801 – Evaluation (VHD)
• System Center Service Manager, version 1801 – Evaluation (VHD)
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager, version 1801 – Evaluation (VHD)

Service Manager 1801+ Authoring Tool

1801+ Management Packs

• Data Protection Manager Reporting, Discovery and Monitoring
• Service Provider Foundation (SPF) 
• System Center 1801+Orchestrator
• Service Management Automation
• Microsoft Azure SQL Database – Managed Instance

Operations Manager 1801 Web Console

• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 1/5): Overview
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 2/5): The all new Dashboards
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 3/5): The new HTML5 Widgets
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 4/5): The all new Drilldown experience
• New SCOM Web Console – Blog series (Post 5/5): Sample Custom Dashboard walkthrough

Lynne Taggart here and I thought I would link everything just release on 1801+ here as a quick reference. I’ll try to keep this updated as more stuff is released.

1801+ VHDs

• System Center Data Protection Manager, version 1801 – Evaluation (VHD)
• System Center Operations Manager, version 1801 – Evaluation (VHD)
• System Center Orchestrator, version 1801 – Evaluation (VHD)
• System Center Service Manager, version 1801 – Evaluation (VHD)
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager, version 1801 – Evaluation (VHD)

Service Manager 1801+ Authoring Tool

1801+ Management Packs

• Data Protection Manager Reporting, Discovery and Monitoring
• Service Provider Foundation (SPF) 
• System Center 1801+Orchestrator
• Service Management Automation
• Microsoft Azure SQL Database – Managed Instance
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Lynne Taggart here, and there are some new DPM Management Packs available. Here is what you can need to know.

This download contains the management packs required to monitor and generate reports on Data Protection Manager(DPM) Servers using System Center Operations Manager.

Details

This download contains the management pack files (*.MP) required to monitor and generate reports on Data Protection Manager (DPM) Servers centrally using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The management guide document (*.docx) also provided with this download contains detailed instructions on how to set up, configure, deploy reporting centrally on the Operations Manager server and how to use the new enhanced extensible DPM Reporting Framework to generate custom aggregable reports. SC OpsMgr is required to be installed and running.

System Requirements

Install Instructions

So what are some of the things inside the Management Pack Guide? – Keep in mind that this ONLY reflects the documentation at the time of this post. You should ALWAYS read the guide prior to doing anything with this or any other management pack for current updates and other information that I do not provide.

Library, Discover & Monitoring Management Packs

The discovery and library management packs enable you to view, monitor and manage DPM servers, alerts, notifications and some other monitoring information. For instance, the following menu items appear on the SCOM console after you import the Discovery and Library management packs.

Prerequisites

The following requirements must be met to run the discovery, library and reporting management packs:

· SC Data Protection Manager must be installed, up and running on all the DPM servers.

· If you want SLA data in DPM reports, Set SLA Requirements on the DPM Server using the PowerShell command-let :

Set-DPMProtectionGroupSLA –SLAInHours

If SLAs are not set on the DPM Servers, you will not get SLA Trends in the Reports.

· SCOM must be up and running.

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SCOM’s Data Warehouse should be up and running. To verify that, ensure that all the SQL Server services with the service name containing the SCOM DB Instance name are up and running. The screenshot depicting the list of running services below captures this scenario and your deployment environment must show a similar state before you proceed to install this MP.

Lynne Taggart here with some more available 1801 downloads goodness.

Note: I have not played with this yet, but wanted to share out the informaiton.

The System Center 1801+ Service Manager Authoring Tool is a tool for customization and extension of the built in functionality in System Center Service Manager. This release supports modifying existing process management packs and creating new management packs that define extensions to the Service Manager database for tracking additional information, customizations of forms or new forms, and new workflows. This release is available in 10 languages.
This release is compatible with System Center 2016 - Service Manager. It contains the final set of features for this version, including:

• Form customization, supporting an extended library of controls
• Creating new simple forms to support custom classes
• Class editor for creating and extending classes and relationships in the Service Manager database
• Creation of workflows with detailed trigger criteria and extensible library of actions
• Management pack support including sealing
• Class Browser and Form Browser to easily locate classes and forms regardless of management pack

System Requirements

• Supported Operating System

  Windows 10 , Windows 8, Windows Server 2016

  • System Center 1801 Service Manager and future releases

Install Instructions

1. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 redistributable before deploying Service Manager 2016 Authoring Tool.
2. Download the self-extracting package for Service Manager 1801+ Authoring Tool and save it locally.
3. Double-click the executable to extract the content.
4. Execute the "Setup.exe" in the extracted content, and follow the instructions of setup wizard.