The New Year is often a time for people to refresh, renew and rejuvenate. As a SCOM engineer maybe it’s a good time to also refresh and rejuvenate your SCOM environment. In other words, maybe it’s a good time to clean-up SCOM! We get asked about “cleaning up” SCOM routinely – almost daily. “We ____ … Continued
Silect Software is proud to make available a free command-line tool for working with MPB files. MPBUtil is provided free, as-is and without any warrantee by Silect Software. The tool can be downloaded from: https://silect.com/downloads/MPBUtil/MPBUtil.zip MPB files are used in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to bundle one or more Management Packs (MPs) with … Continued
We are pleased to announce the General Availability of MP Author version 9.1 (both free and Professional versions). We’ve made lots of updates and improvements to the products. Here’s a summary of the changes: • Add support for HostProperty in the Group wizard. • Allow Event and Performance views to specify multiple rules. • Allow … Continued
We are pleased to announce the General Availability of MP Studio version 9.1. We’ve made lots of updates and improvements to the products. Here’s a summary of the changes: • All the changes for MP Author Pro (see https://silect.com/mp-author-mp-author-pro-version-9-1/) • Allow users to manage the explicit Include and Exclude lists in the Group wizard. • … Continued
We continue to be somewhat amazed by the success of MP University. We regularly get over 500 attendees to our day-long, free online event covering SCOM, Management Packs, Azure and much more. We are in the planning stages for the next MP University event to be held in mid-November and we want to hear from … Continued
What’s New in MP Studio Version 9.0 MP Studio v9 delivers a complete toolkit for any SCOM engineer. New capabilities in v9 include ability to author Linux MPs, audit changes to your SCOM infrastructure, automatically synchronize MPs, a brand new completely re-developed reporting portal and so much more! Here’s a summarized list of the new … Continued
MP University is coming May 29 and want your input! We get asked a lot to cover advanced SCOM Management Pack authoring topics but what would really help us is to understand specific authoring scenarios you would like to see covered. So please use the Comment section below to share an interesting and challenging MP … Continued
Today officially marks the 16th birthday of Silect. Wow – what a ride it’s been. 16 years ago we started developing tools to help organizations manage their IT infrastructures and 16 years later we haven’t stopped! It began with a very simple tool to monitor Microsoft Operations Manager (yes a monitor of the monitor!) but … Continued
We are pleased to announce the General Availability of MP Studio version 8.3. We’ve made lots of updates and improvements to the products. Here’s a summary of the changes: All the changes for MP Author Pro (see https://silect.com/mp-author-mp-author-pro-version-8-3/) Override dialogs now allow a reason to be specified to allow requirements tracking. Similarly, the file version … Continued
We are pleased to announce the General Availability of MP Author version 8.3 (both free and Professional versions). We’ve made lots of updates and improvements to the products. Here’s a summary of the changes: The default target for Windows discoveries is now Windows Operating System, rather than Windows Computer. Kevin Holman made a compelling case … Continued