Jakub@Work
Programming with System Center Service Manager and Operations Manager
New Blog
We've started up a new blog dedicated to the Service Manager Platform...
Date: 06/02/2010
Getting Closer
We’re pushing hard as a team to finish up Service Manager and we’re getting closer :-). I apologize...
Date: 02/04/2010
Service Manager 2010 Beta 2 Released
We released our public Beta 2 on Friday and are busy making progress toward our RTM early next year....
Date: 10/05/2009
Object Templates
In Service Manager, we have a variety of scenarios where we needed to capture partial object state...
Date: 06/26/2009
Categorizing Management Pack Elements
If you are familiar with Management Packs and their elements in Operations Manager, you'll know that...
Date: 06/03/2009
New Criteria
Well, we're back from MMS which was pretty successful for Service Manager in general. In a lot of...
Date: 05/06/2009
MMS 2009
I apologize for not posting lately, we've been really heads down on Beta 2 and working on our...
Date: 04/14/2009
Getting and Working With Type Projections - Basic
In my last post in gave you a more in-depth look at creating type projections in Service Manager. In...
Date: 03/03/2009
More with Type Projections
In my last post I introduced you to a new concept in the Service Manager infrastructure called Type...
Date: 02/04/2009
Getting Started with Type Projections
A very powerful new concept in the SDK is the notion of Type Projections. I always describe type...
Date: 01/20/2009
Improvements in SDK from Operations Manager 2007
I wanted to provide a high level overview of feature additions to the SDK since Operations Manager...
Date: 12/22/2008
Getting Started with the Service Manager SDK
The Service Manager public API is partitioned into several assemblies all of which can by found...
Date: 12/03/2008
Service Manager Beta Released
You can find more details here. Also, community forums are setup for discussion and can be found...
Date: 11/24/2008
New Look, Evolving Content
Well, it has been a while since I had any posts with new content (and it will actually be just a bit...
Date: 10/31/2008
Good Article on Management Pack Authoring
A co-worker of mine recently pointed this out to me, so I thought I would share here....
Date: 07/01/2008
System Center Virtual User Group
The System Center Virtual User Group recently had their first meeting where they presented on...
Date: 06/30/2008
System Center Service Manager
Well, I have been pretty quiet lately with posts and I can finally share why. Over the past few...
Date: 02/12/2008
SCOM Connector QuickStart Guide
Ambrose Wong put together a great quick start guide to connectors in SCOM. I've attached the Word...
Date: 01/09/2008
V4 Planning
I am in the middle of working on changes for V4 to the SDK and am looking for feedback on the...
Date: 11/28/2007
Two New(er) Blog Resources
It's great how more and more people from the development team are blogging now, hopefully helping...
Date: 11/28/2007
SP1 RC Released Today
The RC of SP1 is being released today and can be downloaded from here. Upgrade from RC to RTM is...
Date: 11/05/2007
OpsMgr++
I added a link to Boris's blog, OpsMgr++, on my blog list on the right. Boris has been putting up...
Date: 10/29/2007
SCOM Certifications
Not sure if anyone is interested, but here's some information about SCOM certification I was given:...
Date: 10/03/2007
ObjectNotFoundException in Run As Profiles/Run As Accounts
Exception: Application: System Center Operations Manager 2007Application Version:...
Date: 09/28/2007
Setting the State of an Instance Programmatically
There has been a lot of interest in a simple way to set the state of an instance. Since we don't...
Date: 08/22/2007
Group Targeting Does Not Work
It seems like this question gets asked a lot on the newsgroups and oftentimes results in an...
Date: 07/30/2007
Monitoring Microsoft
A blog about using SCOM in Microsoft IT. Thought I would share it here as a great resource on large...
Date: 06/28/2007
Tiering Management Groups in SCOM 2007
In MOM 2005 tiering was achieved using the Mom to Mom Connector which physically copied data from...
Date: 06/28/2007
Submitting Tasks with Additional Configuration
I had a post earlier about submitting tasks, but I did not discuss how to specify additional...
Date: 06/12/2007
More on Group Membership and Calculations
A coworker of mine, Joel Pothering, put together a great article on groups in SCOM. I am posting it...
Date: 05/22/2007
Paternity Leave
I am starting my 1 month paternity leave today and as such won't be posting much here, although I...
Date: 05/14/2007
SDK Documentation Posted to MSDN
There are still some issues that need to be addressed, but the docs are up:...
Date: 05/03/2007
Working with Management Pack Templates
Management pack templates provide a powerful way to create single or a collection of management pack...
Date: 04/24/2007
Security Auditing
The SDK service supports success and failure auditing for every method invoked on the service. For...
Date: 04/18/2007
Exporting Management Packs
Customers have asked if you can see what is inside sealed management packs. The UI actually prevents...
Date: 04/05/2007
MCF from non-Windows Clients
Note: This will only work in RTM In order to make our MCF web-service work from non-windows clients,...
Date: 04/02/2007
SCOM 2007 Labs from MMS
MomResources.org, a great site run by one of our MVPs, has posted all the lab documents from MMS....
Date: 03/29/2007
MMS Demo - Discovery and operational data insertion via SDK
I put together and presented a short demostration on the SDK at MMS on Monday. I think it went over...
Date: 03/28/2007
Almost Done and MMS
We are almost done here, and a lot of folks are heading to MMS next week for the official launch of...
Date: 03/22/2007
Monitoring Objects
Monitoring objects are the instances that are discovered in SCOM. They are identified by unique...
Date: 03/15/2007
Authoring Management Packs Resource
I added a link to https://www.authormps.com. This is a site maintained by a co-worker geared towards...
Date: 03/14/2007
WCF and SDK and Threads, Oh My!
Since the SDK uses WCF under the covers for communicating with the SDK service, users of the SDK...
Date: 03/06/2007
Tasks not working?
If you are experiencing any issue where notifications aren't working, which can manifest itself as...
Date: 02/22/2007
Running Tasks
I've had some questions regarding how to run tasks via the SDK so I thought I would post an example...
Date: 02/19/2007
Is My Rule/Monitor Running?
Well, I haven't had a lot of inspiration lately in terms of questions to blog about. If nothing...
Date: 02/05/2007
Notification Subscriptions
There have been a few requests recently for more granular notification subscriptions. While this is...
Date: 01/18/2007
Management Pack Authoring in SCOM SDK - Quick Start Guide
Well, it has been quite a holiday! My wife delivered our son, Jamison Jakub, on December 26th at...
Date: 01/05/2007
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I'm off for the next few weeks spending time with family and enjoying the holiday. I will still be...
Date: 12/18/2006
Overrides in SCOM 2007
In SCOM 2007 we have implemented a powerful, but somewhat complicated override architecture. Basic...
Date: 12/05/2006
Differences between MCF in MOM 2005 and SCOM 2007
I wanted to go through and outline some of the changes we made for MCF since our last release. The...
Date: 11/21/2006