This handy little thing will identify the Operating System on one or more servers, using the OS’s default TTL value as a trigger. (Some OS’ uses different TTL values. Most of them are listed on this site.) cls $servers = “Server1″,”Server2” foreach ($server in $servers) { $TTL = Test-Connection $server -Count 1 | select -exp…

I was playing around in Powershell the other day, and made this little thingy to help me monitor clustered Windows Services in an Active/Passive Windows Cluster solution. The script checks if specific Windows Services are running or not, and determines which node is active in the cluster by using the get-wmiobject cmdlet. There are many…

Here’s a link to some awesome SCOM tools that we use often for our SCOM 2012 environment. Thanks to Daniele for these new versions (SCOM 2012 compatible). – MPViewer 2.3 (View sealed and unsealed Management Packs, also has a very useful export-as-unsealed function). – Proxy Settings 1.2 (Select groups or multiple agents and enabledisable Proxysettings)…

In our daily line of work, we sometimes need to show server admins and system managers alerts related to their infrastructure. Have you ever tried to copy/paste the Alert Details for an alert? It looks like crap, and contains alot of information the server admins and system managers couldn’t care less about. To make this…

Are you like me and have literally thousands of .rar archived material laying around on old disks? It can be a pain in the lower region of the backside of your body to unrar all of those files without it being time consuming and boring as hell. After some fiddlin’ around in PowerShell and some…

The Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet enables you to determine which Windows PowerShell scripts (if any) will be allowed to run on your computer. Windows PowerShell has four different execution policies: Restricted – No scripts can be run. Windows PowerShell can be used only in interactive mode. AllSigned – Only scripts signed by a trusted publisher can be run. RemoteSigned – Downloaded scripts…

Open Powershell and import the Operations Manager module with the following command: Import-Module –Name OperationsManager – F

Hi there! Just a quick post to see if the site is working and performing well. First of all, this site exists mainly to organize all of my thoughts and “guides” revolving Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, which I daily use in my line of work as a Surveillance Consultant. Secondly, I needed a place…