Part 2. An extended transcript of my session @ SCOMathon 2021. I hope the demo from the first part demonstrated how easy you can add new views to SCOM Console. With just few lines of code and some time spent in forms designer we created not just a simple static extension, but also demonstrated access… Read More
Accidental Task: Recover SQL Server Product Key from Existing Installation
OK, this task is not accidental in general. The task, probably, appeared withe the very first deployment of SQL Server, or a bit later, when its CD box was lost. But it was new for me, so I started googling. The very first solution seem to be in Jakob Bindslet’s post on 11th of November… Read More
Are SCOM Ids random?
Objects and entity identifiers Every single monitored object (class instance), or class, or monitor, or rule, or any other management pack element in SCOM has its own unique identifier. The id is of type of Guid in PowerShell/C# or uniqueidentifier in SQL. Looking at a Guid property (where GUID is an abbreviation for Globally Unique Identifier), it is reasonable… Read More
Max's blog on SCOM Authoring and more 