CRM Outlook Plug-in with Office 365
Recently I ran across an issue getting my outlook 2013 CRM plug-in connecting to our Office 365 CRM instance. I ran through the typical solutions: Repairing the CRM installation Reinstalling [...]
Change the Beginning IR Number in Service Manager
You would never want to change the auto-incrementing value range in SCSM 2012…would you? Well, I came across an instance where I needed to (which I will explain in detail [...]
Patching SQL AlwaysOn with Orchestrator
Patching SQL AlwaysOn with Orchestrator is a bit different than the patching Hyper-V clusters with Orchestrator. If you've looked up the community runbook for cluster patching from Neil Peterson found [...]
SCOM: Syntax Error during CentOS 7 Discovery
Unexpected Error during CentOS 7 Server Discovery As most readers are aware, Microsoft added support for cross-platform monitoring of Unix and Linux systems to Operations Manager (SCOM) back in 2009 and has [...]
Importing Drivers and creating Driver Packages using PowerShell
Anyone who manages drivers and driver packages for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 OS Deployment likely agrees that using the Admin GUI for importing drivers and creating driver packages can be [...]
Retrieving SCOM Groups from Management Packs via PowerShell
I received a request from a client the other day to assess their SCOM environment and collect a report displaying the member count for their custom groups. This seemed like [...]
Configuration Manager Client Health with PowerShell DSC
PowerShell Desired State Configuration is an extremely promising technology that was released as part of PowerShell 3.0 and has continued to make improvements in PowerShell 4.0. DSC can be used to [...]
