Basic Admin ‘How-to’ Series

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This is a series of blog posts to help with SCOM best practices, and things that make SCOM easier to administer.

 

Associate MPX files in Notepad++ blog

Backup management packs via PowerShell blog

Get to know your monitor blog

Load Test MP with Report blog

Load Test MP Fragments blog

Maintenance Mode PowerShell blog

Manage DB storage with DWdataRP blog

Managing Subscriptions blog

PowerShell Rule/Monitor/PerfCounter MP and Fragments blog

Registry Key discovery MP Fragment clarification blog

Run As PowerShell monitor fragment blog

Sealing Management packs with 2012R2 and 2016 blog

Subscriptions blog

Subscription Set up Guide blog

Uncommon MP Fragments blog

Verifying Overrides blog

 

Best Practices

Agent Management pack KH Blog

Enable proxy as a default KH blog

How to be heard blog

Manage alerts/events/performance KH Blog

Office Analytics (find where all the time goes) blog

Optimize SQL blog

Recommended Registry tweaks KH blog

SCOM Agent Version Addendum KH blog

Set SCOM Agent to remotely managed KH Blog

SQL Engineering Blog

SYSTEM CENTER 2016 Operations Manager – Anti-Virus Exclusions blog

Update VMM MP's for SCOM when SCVMM patched blog

 

Tools

MP Viewer blog

Download Notepad++ here

Kevin Holman blog on extracting scripts from MP's using Transform tool from codeplex

Test fire events using EventLog Explorer here

Alternate tool to fire any events here