Override Explorer v3.3

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Override Explorer v3.3

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:20:57 GMT

The purpose of override explorer is to simplify understanding what overrides exist in a management group

Great utility

Christopher Owens — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:58:22 GMT

I accidentally created an override on the wrong rule, and this helped me find which rule I placed it on quickly and delete it. Thanks a lot!

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Moe Myint — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:20:39 GMT

I found this site from a reference in Ops Mgr 2007 Unleashed book. This tool rocks.

Thanks,

Moe

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Greg Brown — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:33:09 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to use OverrideExplorer.exe to move an override from one MP to another. When I run the tool it works fine but it errors out when I try to move the override to a different MP. When I complete the process the tool runs for about 20 seconds and then errors out with an Unhandled exception has occurred in your application error. The error says "Failded to validate item" and then has the name of the override I am trying to move. When I hit continue the tool exits and the override I was trying to move is deleted.

Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Thanks

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Boris Yanushpolsky — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:02:57 GMT

Hi Greg,

I am aware of the issue and I have a fix for it. I am doing some testing on the fix. Once I have verified the fix, I will post a new version.

Thanks

Boris

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Jay Coleman jgcoleman@bpa.gov — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:27:12 GMT

I've been looking for any updates. Is v3.3 still the latest ? Really like the tool. Any chance you would post source for Override Explorer and/or MPviewer, so those of us with an interest could learn more about how the programs do their "magic" ?

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Boris Yanushpolsky — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:22:46 GMT

I personally dont have any problems with posting the source code but need to check with legal on this. If you have specific questions about how to implement some of the functionality that these tools have, please let me know.

SCOM: Depois da Webcast

Cleber Marques — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:19:14 GMT

Pessoal, Muito obrigado por assistirem ao webcast que realizei hoje, eu peço desculpas pelos problemas

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Bruno — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:00:40 GMT

I used this great tool to find some overrides I had created on a custom MP that used monitors in the old (converted) MP for Windows DHCP. Now that there's a new DHCP MP I want to remove the old one before I install the new one (as per the documentation). When it said my custom MP depended on the old DHCP MP, I used Override Explorer to find the overrides to blame. And I deleted them.

Unfortunately the console still won't let me delete the old MP and it says my custom MP depends on it but there's no more overrides.

Any ideas?

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Boris Yanushpolsky — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:03:11 GMT

The thing is that you can have other MP elements that create the dependency to the old DHCP MP. Can you send me the XML version of the unsealed MP that contains the dependencies and I can help you understand what else you need to remove.

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Bruno — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:57:44 GMT

hi Boris,

Sure, I can send you the xml. I can't seem to find your email address though. Can you please provide it or email me at bruno DOT soares AT sap DOT com ?

Thanks!

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Boris Yanushpolsky — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:12:45 GMT

my email address is borisyan@microsoft.com

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Thomas — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:49:22 GMT

Exactly what i was looking for, it saves a lot iof time and effort, thanks

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Thomas — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:49:55 GMT

Exactly what i was looking for, it saves a lot of time and effort, thanks

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Thomas — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:50:15 GMT

Exactly what i was looking for, it saves a lot of time and effort, thanks.

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Mark Demeranville — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:21:21 GMT

Did you ever find the problem that Greg Brown mentioned above (8/10/08). I have had the same problem for a long time and I keep checking to see if you have posted the fix yet.

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Gustavo Montesdioca — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:55:24 GMT

Hi Boris,

I was trying the tool and see that it shows almost all that I need, but it doesn't list the server name of systems affect on type based view. Do you think you can create a new column that show the server name? I really need to export the list of monitor that are affected by each override. If you can share the code, I can customize it as well :)

Thank you,

Gustavo Montesdioca - Dell Inc.