Dynamic Group Population in OpsMgr with regular expressions

Posted on 9 March 2012 by Mark Wolzak

Over time there have been several excellent posts to guide people in how to dynamically populate groups using regular expressions.The ones I found however did not answer the question I had regarding the grouping I wanted to make. Consider the Continue reading →

SCVMM Migration warning

Posted on 20 February 2012 by Mark Wolzak

Problem Today i received the following warning during migration of several VM’s to another host: Warning (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the [MyServer.FQDN] server. (The directory is not empty (0×80070091)) Recommended Action Ensure Continue reading →

The SQL Server failover cluster instance ‘[yourinstance]′ was not correctly detected. The instance was discovered on the local node but it was not found to be active.

Posted on 29 January 2012 by Mark Wolzak

Recently when upgrading several of our SQL Server 2008 R2 Clusters to SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 (KB2528583) clusters I ran into a problem where the update failed, and kept failing. When searching in the logfiles located in: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Continue reading →

URL normalization problem in the OpsMgr web console

Posted on 16 November 2010 by Mark Wolzak

Notification channels in operations manager 2007 R2 give you the option to determine what to include in alert notifications being sent to, for instance, a specific e-mail address. For an Email (SMTP) channel the default format for your messages is as Continue reading →

Listing mounted ISO’s and mounting or unmounting them for VM’s in SCVMM

Posted on 5 November 2010 by Mark Wolzak

Today we needed to check which VM’s in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) were having ISO’s mounted. In order to prevent us from having to check each of our 200+ virtual machines individually we decided to script this with Continue reading →