It’s been awhile. I’ve actually been terribly busy at my current client, implementing and fine-tuning my Alert Resolution State notification workflow. I’m currently expanding it to hold a few dozen different teams, as well as creating PropertyBags to send performance data (Number of alerts changed per category, total time script ran, total alerts, etc) as well as addming more robust failure checks - that way it can also alert if it fails for any reason.

I’ve also been playing around with PowerShell and 37 year old code.

Super Star Trek - in PowerShell!

Yes, that’s Super Star Trek. Just a little time-waster I work on while I’m mulling over a problem or two. And huge thanks to Jaykul of course, for all of his Powershell knowledge. I can’t do it without him and the crew in #powershell!

Are you on Twitter? If so, be sure to follow OpsMgr to stay on top of the most recent SCOM posts out there! And while you’re at it, feel free to follow me as well - I can always use more friends.

Until next time.

Granted, as SCOM people we already have a lot of places available to us. There’s the newsgroups, SystemCenterForum.Org, MOMCommunity.Com, the MS community, MyITForum, FAQShop, and the whole army of bloggers - but I can’t find somewhere I can’t get live help, bounce ideas off of people, etc. Sure, I have friends on various IM programs that do the same thing, but they aren’t always around and I’d hate to bother them if I don’t have to.

I want one. From hanging out in a PowerShell chat room I’ve learned so much more, and so much faster, then I would have reading books and going through tutorials.

So I’ve setup an IRC chat room on the FreeNode network. Why FreeNode? Well, the PowerShell guys hang out there, so we might as well hang out there too. So if you’re familiar with IRC, connect to chat.freenode.net and /join channel #scom. Not familiar with it? Then use the web based chat I’ve setup (And will eventually register) or read the ’short’ IRC primer.

Hope to see you there, as I’m fairly lonely in the channel all by myself!

Ian Blyth of the System Center Technologies blog has put together a quite extensive list of MOM & SCOM bloggers. I encourage you to check em out and add their feeds to your feed reader - and to make it even easier on you, I’ve created 4 OPML feeds for you to choose from. They’ve been lumped into 3 groups; MS Blogs, Community Blogs, and Useful Feeds. Most newsreaders allow you to choose which links you want to import from a feed, and they are in folders, so choose the grand list first and if that doesn’t work, try one of the other ones.

SCOM & MOM - All Feeds.opml

SCOM & MOM - MS “Official” Feeds.opml

SCOM & MOM - Community Feeds.opml

SCOM & MOM - Useful Feeds.opml