SCOM R2 Admin Resource Kit
Does anyone use this? It's very buggy. I was wondering if Microsoft plans on offering an update any time soon. LINK
December 6th, 2011 12:41am

is there anything specific? any problems your having with the tools?Scott Moss MVP (Operations Manager) | President - System Center Virtual Users Group | Vice President - Atlanta Southeast Management Users Group (ATL SMUG) Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you!
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December 6th, 2011 2:12am

Scott, have you used it? In particular, the Maintenance Mode scheduler? I tried it, and the recurrence feature does not work. We have a server that gets rebooted through a scheduled task once a week. I set up the SCOM scheduler to put that server in Maintenance mode during the reboot time frame. It works the first time. But, it does not change the "scheduled" time. So the next time the server gets rebooted, it is not in maintenance mode. And, to add to that, within a few minutes after the first (and only) successful scheduled maintenance mode, the Job History Event logs in the OM console begin to get entries every 30 seconds saying "Job scheduled due to a missed start time". If I go back into the scheduler utility and look at the current schedule for that server, the Start Date is still set to the date of the first, and only, time that it ran successfully. Also on that screen is a red exclamation with the text "Invalid Data Entry, date cannot start in the past or before the end date". And the schedule is set correctly with a "recurrence", not "run once".
December 6th, 2011 4:29pm

Reason I asked is b/c there are several tools in the Resource kit, not just the MM scheduler, and yes I have used the tools, but I've not used the recurrence feature. Let me check around. Scott Moss MVP (Operations Manager) | President - System Center Virtual Users Group | Vice President - Atlanta Southeast Management Users Group (ATL SMUG) Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you!
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December 6th, 2011 8:49pm

Hi, Please also have a check referring to the following guide: Maintenance Mode Scheduling Tool http://blogs.technet.com/b/jimmyharper/archive/2011/07/14/maintenance-mode-scheduling-tool.aspx Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li TechNet Community Support
December 7th, 2011 12:19pm

Hi, Please also have a check referring to the following guide: Maintenance Mode Scheduling Tool http://blogs.technet.com/b/jimmyharper/archive/2011/07/14/maintenance-mode-scheduling-tool.aspx Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li TechNet Community Support Nicholas - have you actually tried this feature? The majority of your replies on this forum are links on "how to use the product". As I stated in one of my posts here, I made sure I had checked off recurrence. So this is not an "operator error" issue. Its' a bug in the software.
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December 10th, 2011 8:49am

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