SCOM 2012 - Viewing Web Console on XP

So one of the biggest complaints I hear from Clients during a deployment is the fact that XP does not support the local SCOM 2012 client and when you try and access the Web Console you get an error like The procedure entry point LocaleNameToLCID could not be located in the dynamic link library Kernel32.dll, or that your computer is not configured correctly.

Dam you Microsoft for moving forward with technology!! j/k

I came across a  blog post by Mihai Sarbulescu the other day in which he has a .reg script that will allow you to use the Web Console from an XP SP3 machine that has Silverlight installed on it. This will, at the very least allow non-admins who are running on XP the ability to view the Web Console. For Administrators and Engineers you will be better off upgrading to Win7 or Win8 (it is 2013 after all) and using the local client.

Copy the following to notepad and save it as OM2012WebConsoleFix.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Silverlight]
"AllowElevatedTrustAppsInBrowser"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Silverlight]
"AllowElevatedTrustAppsInBrowser"=dword:00000001
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Once you run it you should be able to access the Web Console normally from your XP machine.


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SCOM 2012 - IIS Discovery Problems

Ran into a problem recently where we were doing a discovery on several production web servers. Agent installed without any issues and was reporting back to SCOM as expected. The weird thing was the agent would not discover IIS. This happened on two out of the six boxes we were working with. Four of them came back compleetly normal, two didn't.

We did several things to troubleshoot like reinstall the agent, force a discovery and rebuild the health service state, all to no avail. Since all the servers were built around the same time the thinking was something was different about the two machines that were not working so we started comparing them. The answer was not redily apparent so we had to do some research.

As it turns out the IIS Admin Service (IISADMIN) was set to Manual. It needs to be set to Automatic in order for the discovery to take place. We switched it over to Automatic and both servers came back correctly in about an hour. Strange situation but we are glad we got it working.



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SCOM 2012 - Maximum Number of Asynchronous Responses (5) has Been Reached

Came across an interesting issue yesterday. We have been working on a PowerShell script that would automatically change the resolution state of incoming alerts to a predefined state so we could send out notifications based on that state (i.e. if server is in group "A" and an alert comes in for that server, change the Resolution state to High Priority and send an email to A, B and C distribution lists). I plan to do a follow up segment providing more details on this at a later time.

We have the script in place and it is working as expected. Alert comes in > PowerShell script changes the resolution state > Notification goes out. Now during our testing we only were working on one alert at a time. Flipping the state back and forth between New and High and everything worked just fine. We expanded testing to the live environment and let it cook for a while. After about a week we noticed that not all of the Resolution states were changing from New to High automatically. After further investigation we noticed that the alerts that were not changing had all come in within about a second or so of each other. So for instance a server kicks off fifteen alerts within one second of each other only some of them would change to the new state, or there was a network issue and we lost connection to twenty servers we were only notified on a few.

After some investigation we found the following error in Management Group Health, "The process could not be created because the maximum number of asynchronous responses (5) has been reached, and it will be dropped":

As it turns out SCOM cannot execute more than 5 command notifications asynchronously by default. It is setup this way to protect the RMS box from being overwhelmed in the event of a flood of alerts. Well this can be a bit counter productive if you are relying on the command function to execute as part of notifications. If there were a real disaster you may not actually realize it if you only see one out of potentially hundreds of notifications.

Fortunately this setting can be modified. There is a registry key you can put in place to override this setting. I urge caution, however. By changing this setting you can overload your management server if the script does fire a lot or if it takes extensive time to process especially if it is on an slower machine. I would increase it slowly over a bit of time to make sure you don't get undesired results.

On the RMS box open up RegEdit. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Modules.

1. Create a new subkey called Global (if it does not already exist)
2. In Global create another new subkey called Command Executer
3. In Command Executer create a new DWORD called AsyncProcessLimit
4. You can set the decimal value between 1 and 100. Again I would start small, say 20 and move up from there.
5. Restart the Health Service to allow the new settings to take effect.

5/18/16 - Update
So to make this a bit easier I wrote a PowerShell script to create this key for you. This will create the key and set it to 20.

$regKey = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey(([Microsoft.Win32.RegistryHive]"LocalMachine"),'.');
[string]$KeyName="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Modules\Global\Command Executer";
[void]$regKey.CreateSubKey($keyName); 
$subKey = $regKey.OpenSubKey($keyName,$true);
$subKey.SetValue("AsyncProcessLimit", 20,[Microsoft.Win32.RegistryValueKind]::DWord); 
Stop-Service HealthService
Start-Service HealthService

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Contributing Documentation: Clive Eastwood

iOS6 - 6.0.2 Update

Apple recently released its latest group of updates for the iPhone5. Update 6.0.2 is primarily a bug fix that effects Wi-Fi service. This update directly relates to the iPhone5 and iPad Mini. It is classified as a minor upgrade and is not needed by other Apple devices. You can find additional information on this update in the Apple Knowledge Base

Installation:
In Settings, under General you will see there is a new Software Update

As always you will need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network to install the update. Download and Install will be greyed out if you are not. Once connected to Wi-FI go ahead and Click Download and Install.

You will be prompted to except the EULA. Click Agree

This is a small update so download and install should only take a few minutes.

Once completed you will see that your new current version is 6.0.2 (10A551).

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Hyper-V - Installation

I have mentioned this a few times in previous segments that one of the really useful things about Windows 8 is it has Hyper-V available natively in the Pro and Enterprise versions (not available in Basic). Being a consultant I use it on a daily basis. It makes doing client demos and new product testing/training so much easier. I can spin up a new virtual machine in a matter of minutes and be off and working on it in no time.

I want to do a few segments on covering the Hyper-V basics and thought the installation would be a good place to start.I will be illustrating the install for Windows 8 and I plan to cover the install for Windows Server 2008R2 in another segment.

Install:
In Windows 8 - Enable Admin Tiles I showed you how to add the administrative tiles to your Metro interface. If you did this then the Control Panel tile should be part of that group. If not then Hit the hit the Windows key to open up Metro and type Control Panel. You should see the Control Panel option on the left pane and it should be selected so Click Enter. In the Control Panel Click Programs and Features.

In Programs and Features Click Turn Windows features on or off

In Windows Features, find Hyper-V and Check it. You can expand out the sub-menu and verify that all the boxes are checked. Click OK

The install will search for the required files then apply changes and complete the install. This should take about a minute or so. Once the install is finished a reboot will be required to finalize the installation.

When the reboot is complete you should see two new tiles in Metro, Hyper-V Manager and Hyper-V Virtual Machine Connection.

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Windows 8 - Enable Admin Tiles

One of the more convenient features of the Metro interface is that you can have all of the tiles you use regularly all available on startup. You will notice, however, that some of the more useful tiles that Administrators would need, like Control Panel, Windows Firewall and System Info are not shown by default. In this segment I will cover how to show this group of tiles.

Open the Metro interface by pressing the Windows Key

You can bring up the charms bar by moving your mouse to the upper right hand corner or by pressing Win+C. Then Click Settings

In Settings Click Tiles

When the Tiles window opens up you will see Show administrative tools is set to No. Slide it to Yes.

When you go back to the Metro interface you will see several new tiles have been added.

You can disable the tiles the same way, so if you are working on someones computer and need access to a few administrative tools temporarily you can activate them while you are doing your work and turn them off again when you are done.


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Windows 8 - Activation Error 0x8007007B

So I decided to get off my lazy duff and upgrade my version of Windows 8 from the consumer preview I have been running on to the full version (I went with Enterprise). I have been using CP since March and with the full version being out for several months I figured it was about time.

So I also took the opportunity to swap out my 300GB 5400RPM SATA drive for a 1TB Solid State. I have been spending the last couple days getting the OS installed and reinstalling all my apps. I am nearly done and wanted to start doing some personalization which, in Windows 8 you can't do until it is activated. So I went into the system properties and under Windows Activation I Clicked View details in Windows Activation. I Clicked Activate and was greeted with a 0x8007007B error:

The issue is caused by a missing product key in some of the .iso versions in the MSDN library. You can clear this error closing the Windows Activation window and open up a command prompt with administrative privilege and type the following command:

slui 3

You will return to a command prompt and the Windows Activation window will also open but you will notice that the existing key has been removed and it is ready to receive a new product key. Go ahead and enter your new key and Click Activate

After Windows validates the key you will get the following:

If you go back in to View details in Windows Activation you will see the following:

Close the window and you are all set!


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