Written by LukeJanuary 11, 2018January 11, 2018

How to add a description or a comment to a GPO

Given that the Description property of the Get-GPO cmdlet has a Set method, this can be done with a simple one-liner.

Written by LukeDecember 27, 2017December 13, 2018

My personal PowerShell ISE snippets

Following the post of Josh RICKARD on 4SysOps about ISE snippets, I just wanted to share two of my personal snippets I use very often as a System Administrator. Foreach function with a server list from an array Foreach function with a server list imported from an file Help section Send-MailMessage I shared this one […]

Written by LukeDecember 22, 2017January 2, 2018

[Solved] SCOM alert: Content Synchronization / Catalog Synchronization

You get one of the following SCOM alerts: – Content Synchronization – Catalog Synchronization Further investigations The WsusUtil tool In a command prompt, go to the WSUS tools directory and use the wsusutil command with the checkhealth parameter. Please note that this command must be run directly on the server, and will return an error […]

Written by LukeDecember 19, 2017December 19, 2017

[Solved] WsusUtil checkhealth Unable to contact the WSUS Service

I got the following message: Fatal Error: Unable to contact the WSUS Service. Please verify that Windows Server Update Services is installed and running on the local machine. However, when I checked WSUS logged messages everything looked good. In fact, I was running my command from a PSSession, and that’s why I had this error. […]

Written by LukeDecember 14, 2017January 12, 2018

[Solved] SCOM alert : (FSRM) Active Directory resource property definitions did not synchronize

This alert is raised by SCOM when the event ID 12344 appears in the Application log. File Server Resource Manager finished syncing claims from Active Directory and encountered errors during the sync (0x8007203a, The server is not operational.). Please check previous event logs for details. Here is what you can do: Verify the domain controller […]