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Friday, May 08, 2009 9:01 PM

Program Manager position in OpsMgr Team

We are looking for a program manager to help extend the product's capabilities in the area of Network Monitoring. Here is a link to the job posting: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=80B78DD1-31B6-4676-9F03-D26AE4516C3C
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 2 Comments
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:17 PM

Which discovery found the object

One of the interesting challenges that I have seen some customers experience is understanding which discovery discovered a particular object. There are a number of way to do this. One of the ways you can do this is by using powershell. Here are the steps:
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 1 Comments

Attachment(s): DiscoverySources.zip
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:45 AM

Problem with the IIS Modules QFE (957123)

We have found a problem with the IIS Modules QFE and working on fixing it. In the meanwhile, the binaries for the QFE have been removed from the download site. The issue is in the setup code which causes the SDK and Configuration services on the RMS to
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 0 Comments
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:35 AM

IIS 7.0 Management Pack is now on the MP Catalog!

In order for the IIS 7.0 MP to properly work, you will need to install an agent QFE which drops a new module that the MP uses for discovery and monitoring. Here is the link to the QFE: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f82ef6b3-a08e-4295-b9e3-fb78a74aefa8&DisplayLang=en
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 2 Comments
Friday, February 13, 2009 12:26 AM

Windows Server 2008 Cluster MP is now available!

I have seen a number of questions on this in the past so I am happy to announce that we just released the Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster MP. You can now download it on: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AC7F42F5-33E9-453D-A923-171C8E1E8E55&displaylang=en&displaylang=en
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 7 Comments
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:54 AM

Great new blog

I just got a mail today from Marco Shaw about a great new blog authored by Daniele Grandini and Fabrizio Guaitolini . I recommend you check it out. The latest blog post is about building monitors that work only during business hours. This is something
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 2 Comments
Friday, December 19, 2008 7:04 AM

What if my discovery script fails?

Discovery is a very core feature of a management pack. Bugs in discovery can literally screw up the whole management pack. I saw an example of this today when I was debugging a problem where if the user disabled a network card, the WMI calls that I was
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 6 Comments
Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:04 AM

Populating groups from external sources

Groups are one of the most used areas of functionality in Operations Manager. When you are creating overrides, setting up role based security, scoping views, or running reports you are most likely using groups. Generically speaking, groups allow you to
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 8 Comments

Attachment(s): ADBasedGroupDemo.xml
Friday, October 24, 2008 7:01 AM

VladJ is now a blogger

If you are a partner or attended MMS or ITForum or work with OpsMgr for a while I am pretty sure you would recognize the name. The good news is that now is a blogger and has a blog on blogs.msdn.com so I am sure there will be some good stuff posted on
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 0 Comments
Friday, September 19, 2008 7:00 AM

Configuring rules to run during business hours only

I have heard the question about creating rules that execute only during a certain set of hours many times in the last while. While its not straight forward, it is still possible. Attached to the this blog post is a MHTML file which I wrote that describes
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 18 Comments
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Attachment(s): Scheduled Rules.mht
Friday, September 12, 2008 6:06 AM

What is the state of a particular monitor for all of my objects?

I saw an interesting question today on one of the newsgroups. Basically the question was "How can I find out the state of a particular monitor across all the objects that I have". Unfortunately, a state view in the OpsMgr console doesn’t provide you this
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 3 Comments

Attachment(s): InstanceMonitorState.zip
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:06 AM

MPViewer 1.7 - Now works with latest E12 MP

Thanks Stefan for reporting that MPViewer export to HTML functionality didn’t work with the latest version of the E12 MP. This was caused by a bug in MPViewer. The new version is attached to this blog post. I also some more minor features such as frequency
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 28 Comments
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Attachment(s): MPViewer.zip
Friday, June 20, 2008 11:27 PM

Automating port monitoring using PowerShell

A while I wrote a blog entry about how you can automate the creation of URL monitoring logic in OpsMgr using PowerShell. One of the questions I have received is "how do you do the same thing for port monitoring ?". Attached is a script that demonstrates
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 7 Comments
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Attachment(s): CreatePortMonitoring.ps1.zip
Friday, June 20, 2008 2:26 AM

MPViewer 1.6 - Exporting to Excel

This updated version of MPViewer will allow you to export data to Excel in addition to the HTML format which was available before. Now that you are able to export to excel, I hope it will make it easier to understand MP contents. This update also includes
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 9 Comments

Attachment(s): MPViewer.zip
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:36 AM

Module Explorer V2

In v1 of module explorer I enumerate code based modules and then populated the tree view with composite module that rely on the code modules. In this version I added another view which instead groups modules by the MP in which the module is defined. This
Posted by Boris Yanushpolsky | 5 Comments

Attachment(s): ModuleExplorer.zip
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