This is a fast publish! We were working with WAP and had an issue on one of our deployments not getting usage information. Never had this issue in previous deployments but identified that our SCOM DW SQL is on a Named […]
So this fast-publish post is more of a reference page for the regional settings for Australia based Windows deployments Locale, keyboard and language settings for Australia. This is a basic oobe.xml file found under c:\windows\system32\oobe\info\default\1033 <FirstExperience> <oobe> <defaults> […]
Recently had a client request to monitor for WMI leaks and receive alerts when the WMI process starts to consume resources. Obviously there are other methods for monitoring and/or reporting on this, but in environments without access to these tools or the […]
Create a rule to view the memory usage of WMI process in Windows 2008/2008 R2 (and 2012/2012 R2) agent managed computers. As described here by Kevin Holman, there is a known WMI (KB981314) leak in 2008 R2 and Win 7 operating […]
Just a quick note on how to enable agent proxy via PowerShell Assumptions in this scenario: SCOM 2012 R2 – UR3 Using Operations Manager Shell You want all Agents with proxy enabled Some basics: Get-SCOMAgent Let’s limit our scope.. Get-SCOMAgent | where {$_.ProxyingEnabled […]
Disabling hibernation is simple enough (“powercfg.exe -h off”) but how would we do this in MDT. As with all things MDT, there is often more multiple ways to achieve the same goal. The two methods I would use are by the modifying the […]
Using MDT 2013 I wanted a sequence that automatically installs, sysprep’s and captures my reference image. For ease of management, I choose to have a dedicated MDT Deployment Share for my reference build process and use Powershell wherever possible. A more detailed process using the […]
On a recent MDT project the client requested to finish all builds with volume set at 30%. Being committed to doing everything in Powershell, I jumped on the book of knowledge looking for some inspiration. As luck would have it, I […]
A recent MDT project a client was using USB media to do the builds. This is easy enough to accomplish but something they couldn’t handle was during the build, the USB drive gets assigned D and devices with optical drives ended up […]
Simple task today. I want to relocate my SQL Reporting Services DB to another drive/volume on the same server. Overview steps: Stop the SCCM Site Stop Report Services Detach and move files Attach files in new location Start Report Services Start SCCM […]