Solutions

Here are some examples of the solutions I have written in the last couple of years.

For other solutions please refer to the TechNet gallery

Azure

Azure Inventory Script ! excel with all resources and 1 csv for separate viewing per resource.

Azure Inventory Script ! excel with all resources and 1 csv for separate viewing per resource.

One of the things missing when using Azure is to get an overview of all resources running within you Azure subscription. I have written a PowerShell script which exports all resources from your Azure subscription and writes them to Excel for easy reading and inventory.  reference script

 

System Center Operations Manager

SCOM Health Check reports V3.

SCOM Health Check reports V3.

Back in SCOM 2007 I wrote the famous Health Check Reports together with fellow MVP Pete Zerger. These reports have been deployed in nearly every SCOM 2007 environment to report and tune SCOM environments health state.  The version 3 of these reports is completely rewritten and fully compatible for 2012 R2.

The pack can be found here and reference on System Center Central

Dashboard for Windows Azure Pack tenants in SCOM

Dashboard for Windows Azure Pack tenants in SCOM

Since there was no decent way to monitor your Windows Azure Pack environment with SCOM I have written a management pack to monitors Windows Azure Pack in detail complete with dashboards, views, knowledge. You can find the pack here and reference on System Center Central. After writing this version I have worked together with the Windows Azure Pack product team to rewrite the Microsoft version to include my recommendations which can be found here.

Cross platform management pack for monitoring NFS mount points on Solaris.

Cross platform management pack for monitoring NFS mount points on Solaris.

Custom cross platform (Solaris) management pack to monitor NFS mount points complete with views, health and performance details can be found here at the OpsLogix blog and the pack here.

System Center Orchestrator

System Center 2012 Extended Integration Pack

System Center 2012 Extended Integration Pack

This integration pack is an addition to the default System Center integration packs. In contains activtities which let you do more advanced integration. You can find the pack here references on this site:

System Center Service Manager

Scheduling Work Items in SCSM Natively

Scheduling Work Items in SCSM Natively

This management pack contains classes, workflows and views to schedule any work item in SCSM. After importing and configuration the workflows will automatically create work items on a scheduled interval. Pack can be found here and reference here on System center central.

SCSM Incident Change Status task the correct way! V2

SCSM Incident Change Status task the correct way! V2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This management pack replaces the change status task on incidents to remove the possibility to close an incident and adds a required reason on every status change.

The pack can be found here and the reference can be found on this site:

SCSM Incident Change Status task the correct way! “Evil Other Status Task”