Blogs
Winhoven Group At The Women In Cloud Summit
Last Saturday, Winhoven Group helped sponsor the second annual Women in Cloud Summit and joined over 1,000 participants hosted on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington. We wanted to know how we could help as a Cloud business to hire and engage more women engineers...
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Problem Forwarding SCOM alerts to SCSM can be very useful to allocate troubleshooting duties. However, Incidents created for offline network devices tends to provide less than useful information at first sight. It’s difficult to tell which network device each Incident...
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Choosing the Right Mobile Device Management Solution for Your Business
Mobile device management (MDM) is a security software solution that allows IT administrators to monitor, manage and secure employees’ mobile devices including cell phones, tablets and laptops. MDM software is often combined with additional security...
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SCSM- Use Active Directory Group Reviewers with the Exchange Connector
The Exchange Connector for SCSM is a very powerful tool but if you have ever assigned an Active Directory group as a reviewer in a Review Activity you will find that the Exchange Connector does not handle the replies from the individual group...
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Find Who Uses Software in SCCM Users Collection
Finding programs and applications for users in an SCCM collection can be a challenge since much of the out of box SCCM reporting focuses on devices, not the users. However, with this simple PowerShell script, the headache can be alleviated. The script does a few tasks...
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Orchestrator 1801 Install Error “DBSetup.exe failed with unknown error 0x800A0E7A”
Symptoms When doing a clean install of an Orchestrator 1801 management server, my install failed with “DBSetup.exe failed with unknown error 0x800A0E7A”. I checked the DBSetup log, located at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft System Center 2012\Orchestrator\DBSetup.exe\Logs,...
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Demystifying System Center Versions, Builds, Upgrades and Updates Pt. 2
In part one of “Demystifying System Center Versions, Builds, Upgrades and Updates”, we walked you through the requirements for updating or upgrading SCOM, SCO, SCSM, VMM and DPM. In today’s blog we’ll be giving you a step by step on how to update Configuration...
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Demystifying System Center Versions, Builds, Upgrades & Updates
Figuring out if your organization should update or upgrade and how to accomplish either for the various System Center applications can be a tricky proposition. It is important to understand that System Center 1801 is NOT an update to System Center 2016; they are...
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Getting OS Versions of User’s Devices
Getting quick reports on users’ devices in SCCM can become time consuming. I have come up with a simple PowerShell script to get the OS versions of a list of users’ devices. This code will output the information to a text file in a table format that is easy to read....
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Winhoven Group Attains Microsoft Silver Datacenter Competency
Winhoven Group is excited to announce it has attained a Microsoft Silver Datacenter Competency, demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment and distinguishing them within...
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SCOM Monitors for Adding/Removing Members in a Security Enabled Local Group
Being able to track events in Active Directory can be useful. One useful trick that SCOM can help with is tracking when users are added or deleted from a security group. Under Authoring > Management Pack Objects > Monitors in the SCOM console, there are two...
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Importing Knowledge Article Documents into SCSM
First, go to Library and dropdown the Knowledge tab. In the Tasks panel, select Create Knowledge Article. The wizard will appear. Enter a Title, a Description if necessary and Keywords separated by semicolons for users to search the Knowledge Article with. Finally...
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