Moving Update Worker Server between OMS Workspaces

Recently I’ve been fairly occupied in writing the second edition of Inside Microsoft Operations Management Suite book but now that I’ve finished my chapters I can go back to writing some blog posts.

Update Workers are like Hybrid Workers but they are automatically registered by the Update Management solution. This creates a problem because there is no way to unregister such server unlike the Hybrid Workers which have PowerShell cmdlets installed locally on the server.

Fear not though. There is easy way to move Update Worker between different workspaces as long as you follow the steps:

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Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) Management Solution for OMS

I’ve decided to make you a Christmas present and developed a S2D solution for OMS.

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Less Than 2000 Time Slices Error in OMS Log Analytics – Resolution

I’ve seen a lot of people having the following error appear when they do measurement functions in OMS Log Analytics Search:

Intervals for aggregate functions must result in less than 2000 time slices Unexpected ‘measure’ at position XX.

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Less Than Thresholds in OMS View Designer

I saw that a few folks were struggling of expressing less than thresholds in Operations Management Suite View Designer. There’s more than one way to skin a cat. This is just idiom and I do not have anything against cats.

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Double Heartbeat Events in OMS Log Analytics

I was testing the new Agent Health solution in OMS and I’ve noticed that I have two Heartbeat events generated at the same time for the same computer but having different values for SCAgentChannel field. At first I thought it was some kind of bug related that this server is connected to SCOM management group and the MG is connected to OMS but also the server has direct connection to Internet. Continue reading “Double Heartbeat Events in OMS Log Analytics”