MMS Day Two : Sessions
Extending Operations Manager
Cameron Fuller's session was well attended and well done. He went through a slew of Community and Third - Party extensions to SCOM, including (but not limited to):
Override Explorer
ReSearch This!
Savision - Live Maps
Command Shell:
Alert Close
Set Action Account
Export Alerts
Usability Extensions
MPViewer
Maintenance Mode
Proxycfg
Scheduling MP
Process Monitoring
Alert Forward
Eventid.net Lookup
The post - session Q&A was great. I was able to remind everyone that if you are running the Web Console, you can subscribe to it's RSS feed for alerts (<webconsoleServer/rss, I think) to replace the old MOM 05 Console Alerts. The RSS feed is something that's little publicized and under utilized, IMHO.
Client Health in SMS and SCCM
A good look into the complexities of "Client Health". what it is, and how to monitor and remediable it. My only wish is that I would have been to this session last year, would have saved me some pain.
How do they do that?!?
A great session from an MS Consultant giving a broad overview and some details around how clients have dealt with various situations in Config Manager. This session was very well attended in one of the larger breakout rooms.
Topics included process, planning, and some nuts and bolts. How can you tell how many machines will execute an advertisement successfully before you send it? Why should you have a Definitive Software Library and what should be in it? Why should you 'brand' your package deployments and how would you do it?
Packed full of great tips, this is one slide deck I'll be keeping on hand. Very well done.