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Windows Phone Push Notifications for your OpsMgr Alerts - Part 2
This is part 2 in a two blog post series about configuring Windows Phone Push Notifications for...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 01/07/2013
Windows Phone Push Notifications for your OpsMgr Alerts - Part 1
Did you know you can easily create your own Windows Phone Push Notifications using the Notify My...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 01/05/2013
Protect Your PowerShell Scripts with Version Control
W00t! My Protect Your PowerShell Scripts with Version Control blog article I wrote for the Hey,...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 12/28/2012
Installing a new OpsMgr 2012 (SP1) environment the fast way
Some days ago I read a blog post from Bjorn Houben called SCOM2012 – Quick test lab setup...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 12/26/2012
The First-Ever Dutch PowerShell User Group
Last Friday we had our first ever Dutch PowerShell User Group meeting and I could finally meet Ed...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/26/2012
Update: Put OM2012 Computer Group Members in Maintenance Mode with PowerShell
I finally found out the issue why this script was not working for everybody. It was because of the...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/07/2012
Get-SCOMAlert Cmdlet, the Criteria Parameter and the Non-Equal Operator
Wow, that is a cryptic blogtitle Did I already lost you people with this blogpost title? I hope not,...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/02/2012
OpsMgr 2012: Update Rollup 3 ships, and my experience installing it
Because Kevin Holman has not published a blog article on the latest release of the Update Rollup 3...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 10/22/2012
System Center Operations Manager 2012 Toolbox
After posting some years ago a blog post with all the OpsMgr 2007 tools I thought it would be time...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 09/30/2012
First Dutch PowerShell User Group Meeting
We are very happy to announce the first DuPSUG meeting. This will be held at Master IT in Eindhoven...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 09/22/2012
OM2012 QuickTip: Overview of installed Patches for Agents
You all have installed Cumulative Update Rollup 2 (UR2) for OpsMgr 2012, right? If not just follow...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 08/06/2012
OpsMgr 2012: What should the SPN’s look like (visual representation)?
Today I needed to check the SPN’s for my OM2012 environment and (again) I used some other blogs to...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 07/31/2012
QuickTrick: Adding AdtAdmin tool path to environment path variable
Today I installed Audit Collection Services (ACS) in my demo environment and after installing the...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 07/11/2012
Creating a System Center 2012 Operations Manager Alert RSS feed
In OpsMgr 2007 we had the option to create a RSS Feed for Alerts using the Operations Web Console....
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/29/2012
Clarification on SQL Server Collation Requirements for System Center 2012
We have published a new blogpost on the System Center: Operations Manager Engineering Team Blog...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/29/2012
Let’s Build a Cloud… With PowerShell! – Part 1: Deployment and Configuration
Our Private Cloud team published a blog post about building a cloud with PowerShell! “Windows Server...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/24/2012
New KBArticle: Understanding Operations Manager Maintenance Mode
Yesterday we published a new KBArticle about Operations Manager Maintenance Mode. It explains...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/22/2012
CU6 for System Center Operations Manager R2 Released
We have released CU6 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. Cumulative Update 6 for...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/15/2012
PowerShell Magazine blogpost: Formatting changes for OM2012 in UR1
My blogpost on the formatting changes for System Center Operations Manager 2012 in Update Rollup 1...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/14/2012
Check if new Management Packs have been received using PowerShell
Today I deployed some new Management Pack in my OM2012 demo environment, and to check if the...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 04/17/2012
Monitoring non-domain members with OM 2012
While the rest of the System Center community is in Vegas for MMS2012 I’m helping customers with...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 04/17/2012
Released - Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager
Just a short blogpost to let you know we released the Technical Documentation Download for System...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 04/01/2012
Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (pre-release)
Today we released the Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (pre-release). Microsoft...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/13/2012
OM12 - Creating a Dashboard View with Widgets and store in specific Management Pack
Today I was playing around with creating some Dashboard Views with Widgets and wanted to store them...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/12/2012
OM12 - Viewing contents Management Pack Bundle files with MPViewer 1.9
Yesterday I blogged about some small improvements to Daniele Grandini blogpost about a great...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/07/2012
OpsMgr 2012 – how to dump management pack bundles (small “improvement”)
Last week Daniele Grandini posted a great PowerShell script to dump the contents of Management Pack...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/06/2012
Everything you want to know about the OM12 Cmdlets
Did you know there is a help topic about which cmdlets are new to Operations Manger 2012, which...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/26/2011
Inside Central Podcasts–Episode 12–OpsMgr 2012 Command Shell
Last week I had to some long car drives to one of our customers and had plenty of time to listen to...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/26/2011
Reformatting get-scomrmsemulator cmdlet output
Hi people I need your help. Today I was looking at the Get-SCOMRMSEmulator cmdlet in OM12 RC and...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/14/2011
Do OM12 Management Servers have different registry keys?
Now everybody has downloaded OM12 Release Candidate, it’s time to start exploring. Let’s start...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/13/2011
New System Center 2012 Virtual Labs available
Source: System Center Central Now that we have released System Center 2012 Release Candidate is time...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/11/2011
How to find out what’s new in OM12 for PowerShell
This week I started to play with Windows 8 and of course one of the first things I looked for was...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 09/21/2011
Lessons learned - The OpsMgr 2007 R2 Universal Connector
Last week I was asked to help a customer with the configuration of an OpsMgr 2007 R2 connector....
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 08/16/2011
OM12 Command Shell vs OpsMgr2007 Command Shell
Now that System Center Operations Manager 2012 (OM12) Beta available is, it’s time to compare the...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 07/30/2011
Extract Exchange 2010 Management Pack files from MSI file
Today I wanted to have a look at the Exchange 2010 Management Pack files, but I did not had access...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 07/05/2011
Who put the RMS in Maintenance Mode? (2nd update)
I was investigating an issue with OpsMgr Agents who where stuck in Maintenance Mode. A big help was...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 04/19/2011
Finding Multihomed OpsMgr agents with PowerShell
This week I got some questions about Multihoming agents. As you know, a multihomed architecture is...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 04/13/2011
AddToDistList Tool - Adding a computer to the Distribution list on a RunAs Account
Some weeks ago I saw a question about how to use PowerShell for the ApproveCredentialForDistribution...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/17/2011
What is the impact of the OpsMgr Web Console on the RMS?
This week I had a conversation with a customer who wanted to offer their admins OpsMgr Web Consoles...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/12/2011
Pulling OpsMgr Company Knowledge from Management Pack and send it to email
Some weeks ago I got a question from Marnix Wolf asking if it’s possible to retrieve Company...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 02/17/2011
Download VHD Test Drive – System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 with PowerShell and Bits
Just in case you were interested in test driving Operations Manager 2007 R2, we published a VHD...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 02/14/2011
Sneak preview of sealed MPs using PowerShell
Today I needed to check if a customer had installed the latest versions of available Management...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 02/01/2011
Checking Server Roles with PowerShell
Today I’m rebuilding some of my demo servers in my demo environment and before I can install the...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 01/27/2011
Last two blogposts
Hi people, I’m sorry but I had to remove my last two blogposts about OpsMgr vNext because there is...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 01/27/2011
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. Have fun learning OpsMgr & PowerShell next year again!Tweet
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 12/23/2010
Documenting your OperationsManager Databases? Use PowerShell!
I’ve already blogged a couple of times about ways to document your Operations Manager Databases....
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 12/15/2010