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SCOM Management Packs: Removing Foreign Languages
When you go to add Management Packs (MPs) to System Center Operations Manager, there is that temptation to be lazy and just add everything. This will clog your environment with a lot of things you do not need… including MPs in languages that you likely do not speak, read, or care about (within the context…
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Operations Manager: How to List What Management Packs Are Installed?
A client asked me recently how to determine what Management Packs he had installed in his System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) infrastructure. I told him to open his Management Console and navigate to Administration – Installed Management Packs. It was a short conversation. Easy peasy, right? Here’s a list, go with G-d. Twenty minutes later, my phone…
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Tapplock: Leave the Combinations & Keys At Home
Over the course of the last three years or so, I have gone through more padlocks than I care to admit. Even when I am careful, I write down the combinations, I label the keys… they always seem to get lost. Even when I do remember them, on two occasions I have had to throw…
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SCOM License – Upgrade?
The installation of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2016 does not ask you anywhere to enter a license key. Then when you run the Operations Console, you are shown a required task to Upgrade to full version. When you click on the link, it opens a website that is less than helpful. In fact, when you…
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Enabling Agent Proxy in SCOM 2016
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) chiefly relies on Agents in order to collect the data required to generate its reports. After all, SCOM’s primary functions are monitoring and reporting, right? Well, in order to do this for hundreds to hundreds of thousands of computers, there is a feature called Agent Proxying that helps it out. …
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Domain Controller Health Service Lockdown Issue with SCOM 2016
I came to this realization last year, but I don’t think I wrote about it. When monitoring domain controllers, specifically domain controllers running on Windows Server 2016, and specifically with System Center Operations Manager 2016 (and later, I assume) have a bit of an issue when you deploy the SCOM Agent to the server. It deploys,…
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Active Directory Recycle Bin
A few years ago, Microsoft introduced the Active Directory Recycle Bin to Windows Server. Wonderful! It is not enabled out of the box, but it is reasonably simple to enable… except, it is not. Firstly, you can do it in the GUI… Open the Active Directory Administrative Center, navigate to local (local), and then in the…
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An Apple a Day…
Longtime readers of this blog will know that three years ago I made the jump from Windows Phone to the iPhone. I have few regrets about the move… the selection of apps on the iPhone (as well as the quality of them) is infinitely better than what I had on the Windows Phone. I can…
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Windows.old is getting old…
Earlier today I was looking for a script to remove the c:\Windows.old directory from my computer following installation of a new version of Windows. Unfortunately, in these times of “Windows 10 is the last desktop OS we will ever deliver, but we are updating it to a new version every six months,” this is needed…
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Corrections!
Earlier today I published my article called USB & Windows to Go: Key In! on this site. Because of my eagerness to get the article out (recently I posted that I would be trying to post a lot more frequently), I have been informed that I made a number of minor errors. Here are the…
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A quick teaser…
As many of you know, I have always had a soft spot for Windows to Go (WTG), a technology that Microsoft introduced in Windows 8. I have written reviews and how-to articles on the topic dating back to June, 2012. While I do currently have a favourite device, I have three (3) of them on…
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DCPromo No More… PowerShell!
I needed to build a new domain controller for a friend’s company recently. It is something that I have done so many times over the past two decades that some things are just instinctive… like typing dcpromo to create a domain controller. Right… I had forgotten about that. dcpromo has been deprecated. You could go…
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Urban Armor: Protect your device!
Are all phone protector cases created equal? I have discovered over the years that, much to my dismay, they are not. Some cases look pretty and are sleek, but they do not do a very good job of protecting your phone. Others are big and bulky, and your phone is safe… but you never want…
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Rules for my sons…
These are now rules for both my sons! Thanks Peter! I like these a lot! Rules For My Unborn Son by Walker Lamond 1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down. 2. There are plenty of ways to enter a pool. The stairs ain’t one. 3. The man at the grill is the closest thing…
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Should You Forgive a Drunken Attack?
Last week Jews around the world fasted for Yom Kippur. The translation is Day of Atonement. In the days leading up to Yom Kippur we are meant to seek forgiveness from others for our transgressions against those we might have wronged. The thinking is that while G-d can forgive sins against him, it is only…
The World According to Mitch 