PowerShell Script: Remove All Packages From A SCCM Distribution Point
Often, SCCM administrators found packages still assigned to distribution points that no longer exist. There are scripts available to remove these “orphaned” package distributions via SMS Provider. i.e. This one called DPClean.vbs from TechNet Blog: Removing a retired DP from all your packages. It was written for SMS 2003. I’m not sure if SMS 2003 [...]
Extend ConfigMgr Hardware Inventory to capture OpsMgr configurations
Download: MOF Extension for OpsMgr Configurations I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now and finally found some spare time for it. I want to be able to target OpsMgr (SCOM) agents and servers in ConfigMgr (SCCM) in a more granular way (i.e. all OpsMgr agents that are reporting to a OpsMgr Management [...]
SCOM Management Pack: Daylight Saving Time Change Detection
I wrote this management pack to detect system time changes that are caused by daylight saving. It’s called “Custom Daylight Saving Detection”. Background: When supporting a infrastructure that has servers across the globe, it is hard to keep track of daylight saving schedules for all time zones. There is a requirement that we need to be [...]
PowerShell Script: SCCM Health Check
30/01/2012: This script has been updated to version 3.5. Details can be found HERE. The download link on this article has also been updated to version 3.5. 26/05/2011: Version 3.3 has been posted here. The download link to the script on this post is also updated to the new version 3.3. 21/04/2011: Please be advised [...]
PowerShell: OS Build Script for Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2 and Windows 7
Background: Around 2 years ago, I originally written a set of script to configure newly built Windows 2008 servers using PowerShell when my previous employer started to deploy their very first Windows 2008 server. These set of scripts were the very first scripts I’ve ever written in PowerShell. Over the time, I have updated them [...]
Mailbox Archive Tool for Microsoft Exchange Servers
This is another GUI tool based on PowerShell I’ve written in the past. A company I worked for needed a tool for Service Desk people to archive users’ mailboxes into PST file. I’m not an Exchange engineer, they told me they used to use ExMerge in Exchange 2003 environment but since upgraded to Exchange 2007, [...]
ENHANCED SCOM Alerts Notification Emails!
29/01/2012: The command notification channel setup section of this blog has been updated. More details of the change can be found HERE: http://blog.tyang.org/2012/01/29/command-line-parameters-for-scom-command-notification-channel/ Please Note: This post and associated script has been updated on 30/09/2010. Even though SCOM is a great product, I personally believe that alert notification emails is something that really needs improvements. It [...]
Using SCOM to Automatically Stop MOM Agent Service
I’m currently working on a MOM 2005-to-SCOM 2007 migration project for a client. after months of work, we are finally ready to stop MOM service. We created a new GPO to set MOM service (MOM agent) to “Disabled” and linked to the top of the domain. we also wanted to make sure all MOM service [...]