Cameron Fuller

Cameron is a principal consultant for Catapult Systems. A Microsoft MVP (SCOM), Cameron blogs about infrastructure topics including SCOM, virtualization, Exchange and Active Directory. Cameron is a MCTS for SCOM and SCCM.
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Dec10

Management packs won’t import into OpsMgr

Issue: Trying to one or more management packs into Operations Manager and they are all failing? Resolution: Check the free space on the OperationsManager database. There are alerts to provide warning if there is less than 40% available free disk space however if an OpsMgr environment is completely out of disk space all management packs will fail to import until there is sufficient free disk s...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on Thursday, 10 Dec 2009 09:12.
0 Comments | Categories: OpsMgr and MOM

 
Dec9

QuickTricks – Configuration Manager query for Adobe Apps

I spent some time today working through a query that would gather what applications that I had in my environment which were from Adobe. I worked through the existing reports and couldn’t find anything that would give me the results for all Adobe% applications for a specific collection and would provide that information down to the file level. The following is the results which can be pasted int...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on Wednesday, 9 Dec 2009 05:23.
0 Comments | Categories: ConfigMgr / SCCM

 
Dec8

QuickTricks – Determining what thresholds exist for the processor in OpsMgr

Another one of the common questions asked is what are the thresholds which OpsMgr users to alert from a processor usage perspective? Similarly to the thresholds for a disk (http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2009/10/09/quicktricks-–-determining-what-thresholds-exist-for-a-specific-drive-in-opsmgr.aspx) the are two different values which are used to determine when a processor is bo...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on Tuesday, 8 Dec 2009 11:44.
0 Comments | Categories: OpsMgr and MOM

 
Dec8

QuickTricks – Commandline to Explorer in the same folder

I saw someone at Microsoft do this trick and wanted to make a note of it because it’s pretty useful especially if you are working deep into a path on a drive. If you are on the commandline and you want to open explorer in the same folder just type “start .” This is shown below:   Results: ...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on Tuesday, 8 Dec 2009 11:24.
0 Comments | Categories: Operating Systems