There is a fundamental need within SCOM to send email to individuals based on an individual alert. For instance, when you create a user account without following the proper process, an alert is generated  and an email gets sent to Winfra. Winfra has a rule in Outlook to send the email on to s... [More]

I had a request for a script to monitor the number of files located in the root of a file share. Since the name of the share is unknown, they wanted a list of shares defined in a configuration file. To make it more exciting, they wanted an event written to the application log of the host r... [More]

I came across a need to determine what type of OS is installed on a Windows server. The idea being that if it is a 32 bit OS, I'll get a registry key from one location but if it is a 64 bit OS, the key lives in another location. Using WMI, I simply look up the PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE valu... [More]