Posted by Pete on 02 / 16 / 09
Archive for the ‘Tools & Utilities’ Category
Posted by Pete on 02 / 01 / 09
How to convert your Virtual PC images to Hyper-V [Tools]
I was looking for a quick way to convert my OpsMgr Virtual PC 2007 VM's to Hyper-V a few weeks ago. What I found was a free tool called the VMC to Hyper-V Import Tool. The tool ess... read more Posted by Pete on 01 / 29 / 09
Updates to the Community Management Pack Catalog for January 2009
There have been a couple of nice additions from the Microsoft Premier Field team in the Community Management Pack Catalog for Operations Manager and Essentials 2007. Check these ... read more Posted by Pete on 01 / 21 / 09
Tools: Enable or disable all subscriptions in OpsMgr 2007
If you're not inclined to use Powershell scripts, here's a standalone GUI tool that will enable or disable all notification subscriptions. The tool will automatically re-enable ... read more Posted by Pete on 01 / 17 / 09
OpsMgr: Two options for bulk manaual reset of monitor state [tools]
I see Tim Helton published command line tool (and his source code) that allows for resetting the health state of multiple monitors at once. He's dubbed his tool the greenmachine. N... read more Posted by Pete on 01 / 10 / 09
Another tasty addition to the Operations Manager 2007 Community Toolbox
It seems like only yesterday I was talking about the latest tools extending and augmenting OpsMgr functionality...actually, it was only yesterday. Marius Restart Monitoring Tool is... read more Posted by Pete on 01 / 09 / 09
New and Updated Tools for Operations Manager 2007 Admin and Testing
I've updated the Community Tools page (systemcenterforum.org/tools) a couple of times in the last few weeks with some new and recently updated tools. I expect a couple more next we... read more Posted by Pete on 12 / 27 / 08
4 tools in the SecureVantage ACS Resource Kit worth checking out
SecureVantage is a company I am fond of because of their many contributions of time and resources to the OpsMgr community. I recently took a look at version 1.1 of the SecureVanta... read more Posted by Pete on 12 / 24 / 08
Essentials 2007 Tip: Process and tools to better search and identify errors in WindowsUpdate.log file
When software or update deployment fails in Essentials 2007, or you have an agent reporting a "Not Yet Contacted" state, you are dealing with an issue related to the Automatic Upda... read more Posted by Pete on 12 / 04 / 08
