demoted Domain Controller still present in SCOM
If you demote a Domain Controller, SCOM will generate a lot of alerts. By design, there is no automatically undiscovery for the Rules and Monitores fo...
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extend the Active Directory Users class for SCSM
Today I needed some additional fields for the Active Directory User class for an SCSM Service Offering. For example, I need the PrimarySmtpAddress, wh...
delete orphaned computers from SCOM
after renaming a Active Directory computer, the computer was automatically detected in SCOM with the correct new name. but after short time, I detecte...
Create SCOM Dashboard for SharePoint in Visio
This week I created a DashBoard for SCOM in Visio to present it on a SharePoint site. Normally you could use the Visio 2010 Addin for SystemCenter ...
website rebranding
Hello my website was over years reachable under josh-burkard.ch, which was a long url. I was on search for a new and shorter domain name for this webs...
SCOM 2012 agent communication issue
This days, I had a very special problem with some new SCOM agents. I installed some new servers and installed the SCOM 2012 agent on it. But after som...
Create site-to-site VPN with FortiGate to Microsoft Azure
I know, it is an unsupported configuration to create a site-to-site VPN to Microsoft Azure with a FortiGate firewall. But a FortiGate device is what i...
WordPress Plugin: Sandbox Mirror
I created a new plugin for mirroring a WordPress site to a test site: Sandbox Mirror. Currently it’s in beta status and not available for downlo...
recover deleted Bitlocker Recovery Informations
Today I had a request from a first-level-admin which need the Bitlocker Recovery Password for a already deleted computer object. Here is what I came u...
add domain groups to vSphere ESXi 5 with PowerCLI
With PowerCLI, you can add AD authentication to a single managed ESXi Host. For this you need to add your ESXi-Host to the AD (line 9) and then add pe...