Don't you hate looking for Agents that are in the "Unknown State"? Those are the guys that have the Grey Icon. Well here's how you can locate those unknown agents using the PowerShell.
In Windows 2008, we use repadmin.exe to troubleshoot Active Directory replication. Repadmin allows you to dig deep into replication, down to the level of the replication metadata and the up-to-dateness vector. You can specify Password Replication Policies (PRPs) with Read-only Domain Controllers and enable/disable replication for a given Domain Controller and manually configure a replication topology.
How can you export a Sealed Management Pack? Well, here's how you can.
Could not start the OpsMgr Health Service service on local computer error 0x80004005: Unspecified error
Errors installing SCOM 2007? Did you add the "Agent Action Account" to the Local Administrators Group on the RMS Server and the Operations Database Server?
The CPU Percentage Utilization Monitors don't work on Windows 2003 server
SCOM 2007 Cluster Management Pack may cause high CPU usage
The server status is always displayed as “not monitored” in SCOM administrator console -> Administration -> manage servers. Here’s the problem: The gateway server is detected as an “Agent” instead of a server with an incorrect gateway server installation method. If we install the gateway server before we register the gateway server in SCOM database,...
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