Monthly Archives: December 2011

SCOM 2012 Maintenance Mode Script – Computer maintenance mode depending on SCCM 2012 collection membership

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

Maintenance mode is always something you are facing during System Center setups. Let’s say you have a SCCM administrator who want’s to deploy it’s Windows updates on a certain day e.g. Tuesday @ 08.00 p.m. o’clock, and he also decides … Continue reading →

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SCOM 2012 Agent Discovery – The user does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

In SCOM 2007 R2 during the installation process you were ask to enter a SCOM administrator group. This group was automatically added in the SCOM console to Administration/User Roles/Profile: Administrator/Operations Manager Administrators. In SCOM 2012 per default the server local … Continue reading →

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Not monitored Domain Controllers still showing under Windows Computers – Active Directory MP DiscoverAgentOnly

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

If you are monitoring Active Directory in a multi-domain environment you might only want to monitor certain domain controller because you don’t have the administrative sovereignty nor any permission to access the other systems.In that case you probably installed the … Continue reading →

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Fixing Citrix WMI errors 0×80041001 / 0×80041002 – XenApp 6

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

I am sure during your Operations Manager career you already faced some WMI errors while installing e.g. Active Directory or XenApp management packs. A few days ago I installed the XenApp 6.0 MP in SCOM 2007 R2. Suddenly errors 0×80041001 … Continue reading →

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Simple script which checks the modified time (hours) of a log file

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

Recently I had to monitor a backup log file. If the modification time stamp of the log file was later than at a certain time then SCOM should fire a warning. In my case if the file was modified later … Continue reading →

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Support Tools Task in Active Directory Management Pack fails

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

If you have installed the latest Active Directory management pack and if you try to start an Active Directory related task e.g. DCDIAG, REPADMIN etc. on a Windows 2008 / 2008 R2 domain controller you will receive an error that … Continue reading →

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