Month: September 2016

Upgrade SCOM 2012 R2 From Eval To Full Edition License

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By default, when SCOM 2012 R2 is installed, it uses an eval license (hence the yellow warning when you install the management server). When you go to the “Administration” workspace there is a center page link to technet to “Upgrade SCOM to full version”.

Here’s the simple way to add that product key from powershell.

import-module OperationsManager

set-SCOMLicense -ProductId “insert product key here”

stop-service cshost; stop-service omsdk; stop-service healthservice

start-service cshost; start-service omsdk; start-service healthservice

 

Alternatively, you can reboot the management server.

 

After that, to verify the key is install you can take the following steps.

Launch the Operations Manager Console > Go to “Help” and click “About” > Next to the Version information it should now say Retail. *Note that it’s okay if the Product ID is blank.

 

I hope this makes your day at least a little bit easier.

Thanks,

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Disable Windows Firewall With PowerShell

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Welcome all, to the age of the gui-less windows server. As more and more people spin up labs with command-line only boxes, this command can be helpful.

Remember to only turn off your firewall in lab environments where you know you’re not exposing  yourself to additional risk.

Set-NetFirewallProfile -Profile Domain,Public,Private -Enabled False

 

To do this using netsh in cmd, you can use the following command.

 

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off

 

I hope this makes your day at least a little bit easier.

Thanks,

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