SCOM: Silect MP Author goes to SP3
Silect has released SP3 of their MP Author, the new version comes with a host of new features. Product information page – here Request a free download – here New features: Improved knowledge viewing...
View ArticleSCOM: Platform Ready Test Tool 1.1
A new tool released by Microsoft to help with MP Authoring. The Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool for System Center 2012 R2 is designed to help test your Operations Manager Management Pack for...
View ArticleThe future of SCOM, learnings from the technical preview.
A question I’ve often posed regarding SCOM is, “Why do should we be using 3rd party utilities to perform certain functions?” and the one that comes up most frequently is scheduling maintenance mode....
View ArticleMicrosoft acquires BlueStripe
The big news that’s been making the rounds is that Microsoft has acquired BlueStripe Software. Announcement from Microsoft Announcement from Bluestripe If anything this should lead to enhancement to...
View ArticleXPost: MP Authoring: What Toolset To Use & Why
Marnix Wolf has written a great post about the different options available to IT Pros to write management packs for SCOM. The article is definitely worth a read and I wholeheartedly agree with the...
View ArticleVSAE now supports Visual Studio 2015
Some good news doing the rounds is that VSAE now offers supports for Visual Studio 2015. You can download them here Happy authoring
View ArticleSCOM: Extensible Network Monitoring Management Pack Generator tool
A new tool has been released to assist in creating management packs for network monitoring get it here I know from experience that having to walk a MIB file manually in order to determine which OIDs to...
View ArticleSCOM 2016: Updated Visual Studio Authoring Extensions
The Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) has been updated for SCOM 2016, grab it here. Happy authoring!
View ArticleSystem Center 2016: Management Packs Certification Test Tool Preview
Microsoft has released a preview for a handy tool which will allow you to test your System Center 2016 management packs for compatibility and compliance to best practices get it here. This is a great...
View ArticleXPost: Document your SCOM RunAs Account and Profiles script
Another handy script from Kevin Holman to document your SCOM RunAs Account and associated Profiles and export them to a CSV file. Get it here for a sample and the original article go here
View Article
