All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve seen this a few times now, sometimes with standalone WSUS but mostly with SCCM running a software update point. Every time SCCM does an update synchronization – the app pool crashes. If it runs again it will typically complete, but it’s still rather annoying especially if you have the SCOM management pack for IIS […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m not sure why I have a hard time remembering which way the numeric representation goes – but here it is. Severity: Informational = 0 Warning = 1 Critical =2 Priority: Low = 0 Medium = 1 High = 2 Thanks!
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’ve ever added hosts to an SCVMM instance you’ll know that there’s seeminly no easy way to move the newly imported VMs from those hosts into SCVMM clouds. I’ve found the best way to do this is by using the SCVMM command-line interface, which unfortunately has a few quirks. Set-SCVirtualMachine is the command you’ll […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI recently spun up a new SCVMM environment, created my first VM, and attempted to create a template only to be faced with a job error. Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact the Host01 server: : . WinRM: URL: [http://Host01.lab.local:5985], Verb: [INVOKE], Method: [LoadSubkey], Resource: [http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/scvmm/P2VSourceFixup?RegFileName=C:\Users\SVC_VMM\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp6AB5.tmp] The configuration registry database is […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently I had to reinstall an SCCM 2012 R2 instance, and came across a strange error when I ran the Prerequisite Check. Dedicated SQL Server instance: Configuration Manager requires a dedicated SQL Server instance to host the site database. You selected the SQL Server instance that site hosts the Configuration Manager database for another site. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBy 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. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere we go, short but sweet. I had to come up with this today when working with a SQL Server compliance item in SCCM 2012 using a script detection method. I’ve added the else back in, but you can modify however you need. if (Test-Path “HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\Instance Names\SQL”) { write-host “True” } Else { […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week I had an issue where I needed to rebuild the WSUS server leveraged by my SCCM 2012 Software Update Point. After uninstalling/reinstalling WSUS from server roles, I downloaded and installed SP2 for WSUS 3.0 since that’s the requirement for SCCM 2012. At this point the normal train of thought would be “I met […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSimple one-liner, very helpful though! Import-Module OperationsManager; Get-SCOMGroup -DisplayName “All Windows Computers” | Get-SCOMClassInstance | sort DisplayName | FT DisplayName This will output just the names of all machines in the “All Windows Computers” group, you can change that name to output the machine names of any other group as well.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently ran into this issue when doing an all-in-one VDI install, on top of a server that had been used for other things in the past. The “quick start” VDI option is supposed to essentially do everything for you, but I ran into this issue. “The Server does not have a network adapter available […]
