Tag: powershell

Ping SCCM collection members with PowerShell (sample script for ConfigMgr 2007 and 2012) developed by Pete Zerger

By reading the name of the article you can easily understand what this script does.

You can grab the scrip from here.

Thank you Pete fro sharing this script with the community.

Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell RC is available

Microsoft® Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell®  helps scripters find Windows PowerShell scripts, snippets, modules, and how-to guidance in online repositories such as the TechNet Script Center Repository, PoshCode, local or network file systems and Bing Search Repository. Microsoft® Script Explorer enables:

  • Integrated community and Microsoft resources to help you unlock the power of Windows PowerShell.
  • Seamless searching across online repositories to locate script samples relevant to you.
  • Establishing and searching local, network, and corporate script repository is easy.

I recommend this application to every engineer who uses PowerShell. It will help you to find PowerShell solutions more easily.

You can download the tool from here.

Reset SCOM Unit Monitors in Bulk with PowerShell

This is another great article by Pete Zerger that he teaches us how to leverage PowerShell for managing SCOM. Find the full guide here.

Managing Resource Pools in Operations Manager 2012

If you are using SCOM 2012 to monitor network devices that means you have to use resource pools. In order to create resource pool for network device you have to change the setting of the other default resource pools (Notifications Resource Pool, AD Assignment Resource Pool and All Management servers resource pool). These polls have to be set from automatic membership to manual for a certain reasons. Find these reasons and how to change the settings of these resource pools in an article titled Automatic and Manual Resource Pools in Operations Manager 2012  by Cameron Fuller.

OpsMgr 2012: Disabling Rules and Monitors in Bulk in PowerShell

Another great article by Pete Zerger. In this article he give us an example how to leverage PowerShell to bulk disable or enable monitors and rules.