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Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Today is the last day you can sign up for MMS 2011 at the special “early bird” pricing! Either you – or more preferably your company – can save $275! Tomorrow they move to the standard pricing, so register now and be sure to say hi to me and pick up some random Pavleck.net schwag!
Curious as to what I’m interested in this year? No worries, here’s my .ics for it. If we’ll be at the same place at the same time let me know.
So, I’ve received a few (Read: a metric ton) of comments regarding if my eBook and Webservice is done yet.
In short: No.
In long: Yes, but no, well sort of.
So I had a lot of bad things that went down in my personal life. I was laid off, the wife and I separated, etc etc. So mentally I was able to devote as much time as I had hoped to this endeavor – though I do have a decent ground work laid for it.
But there’s another problem now.
Being unemployed for as long as I was, I had to sacrifice some things to get by. I had to sell the servers I used for my virtual SCOM infrastructure. So now I don’t really have a machine capable of running OpsMgr + all the additional VMs I need to setup all of the various environments to testing and deployments to.
Did you want to help? I’d love it if you could!
What I need right now to finish all of this:
A proper server. If anyone has one for sale, or to loan to me for awhile (1 year or so), I can get this whole thing back up and running.
I’m looking for something like a Dell Poweredge T610 – a dual processor capable machine with plenty of ram and disk. It doesn’t have to have the extra proc (Though that would be awesome) or be fully populated with ram and drives – but it would be helpful.
If you have one for sale or loan, and would like to be my very best friend, please send me an email to jpavleck.servers@gmail.com – I’ll get back to you ASAP and be sure to credit you with saving these 2 projects. And, as a special gift, when I release the “pro” version of the Web Service Connector, you and your company will receive a free license to it – as well as support – for free! This will easily be a $5,000 value!
So lets see if the community out there can rally around and help me get this done!
Oh, and likewise, if you’d rather send me $2,500 so I can just buy the server, well I can do that too. Send an email to the same place.
I’m fairly certain nothing will come from this post, but I’m putting it out there just in case there’s some kind soul who can help me out.
Thanks,
Jeremy
So my current contract has ended and while I have some spare time I’m going to be focusing fiercely (Well, fiercely for me anyway) on “Project KONOP”, the OpsMgr Web Service. I’ve even been so bold as to take the liberty in registering SCOMWS.com to host it.
And a new project, still unfinished – SystemCenterSearch.com. Hoping to make it a very basic ‘portal’ for all things system center – but mainly centered on the most recent issues, most common problems and solutions, and a simple search that looks through all of the system center websites for your query.
And for you Redditors out there I’ve made two new sub-reddits. /r/SystemCenter – dedicated to all things System Center related and /r/SCOM – dedicated to just OpsMgr stuff (Of which we know I’m kind of partial to).
So just a quick note to let you know what I’m working on. Now, I’m back to working on website front-ends and building a web service using a 5 year old book from MS Press heh.
You may notice the site will be in an erratic state for awhile. Just be patient. I need to re-organize and update a majority of the content as well as aggregate a lot of the fragments sitting out there.
This site will no longer be solely dedicated to Operations Manager. Instead, it will be focusing on automation & process improvement items – things to make our lives easier.
I’ll no longer be writing as the ‘elitist’ Senior OpsMgr Consultant which was my role for so many years – I’m now Joe SysAdmin. And as such, I’ll be tackling problems in that manner.
So except fewer Opsmgr posts, and more about dealing with opsmgr in the way most companies do; they pick Random System Admin guy, point a magic wand and say “You’re the OpsMgr Guy now”.
And this is how we’ll be solving problems from here on out.
Real, every day problems. A lot of them will clearly be hacks, but some of them will be quite wonderful.
On that note – if you’re a C# developer and would like to collaborate with me to get the OpsMgr Web Service to a state I feel is acceptable to distribute, please email me and lets start a dialog about all this.
Jeremy
Alas, with the ending of my 12th month as a Microsoft Most Valued Professional, ends it, period. I didn’t get renewed.
Just as well though.
I could go on a slight diatribe about it all, but I’ll just keep it bottled in.
Until then, let me tell you, writing a web service is a lot harder than I thought – I might be eliciting the help of the community at some point. And yes, I am still slowly trudging along with it. It’s mainly been redesign redesign redesign. Though I’m hoping to have something ‘soon’.
Yesterday, posted quietly as KB article 968929, Microsoft officially released PowerShell 2.0
Why is that cool? Because now you can get PoSh 2 officially deployed to all your servers. And you get to “officially” use the coolest CmdLet in the bunch: New-WebServiceProxy
Now, if you were to just read the help about it, it doesn’t really seem all that interesting:
Creates a Web service proxy object that lets you use and manage the Web service in Windows PowerShell.
But I’m going to give you an awesome secret. There’s a webservice out there unlike any other. If you want to sell PoSh to your coworkers, this is the way to do it.
What is it?
WebServiceX.Net provides On Demand XML Web Services for Financial,Distribution, Retail, Health Care, Manufacturing, Telecom, Government and Educational Industry.
So, what’s the mean to us?
Well using our shiny new cmdLet and a few lines of code we can instantly access data for over 70 different services. So really it comes down to “What do you want to do?”
Get the weather? No problem.
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$usWeather = New-WebServiceProxy –uri “http://www.webservicex.net/WeatherForecast.asmx?wsdl” $usWeather.GetWeatherByZipCode(‘55408’) |
BAM. Done.
Oh, you don’t live in the US? No worries either.
Lets see how the weather of a certain favorite MS employee is.
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$weather = New-WebServiceProxy –uri "http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?wsdl” $weather.GetWeather(‘Amsterdam’, ‘Netherlands’) |
Wow, Stefan better grab a coat, it’s chilly there.
Ok, those were interesting in an ‘yeah, I’ve seen that before’ way – but what else?
A simple-as-pie domain whois? You know it’s there.
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$whois = New-WebServiceProxy –uri “http://www.webservicex.net/whois.asmx?wsdl” $whois.GetWhois(‘Pavleck.Net’) |
BAM!
Next?
How about searching Lloyd’s for the risk code for a given item. Sure, we got it.
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$lloyds = New-WebServiceProxy -uri "http://www.webservicex.net:85/LloydsRiskCodeService.asmx?wsdl" $lloyds.GetLloydsRiskCodeDetailByRiskCodeDescription('OVERSEAS LEG TERRORISM PROPERTY') |
BAM!
Apparently it’s risk code is 6T. No idea what that all means.
I could go on all day – there is so much information out there. From Acceleration Unit Converters, Sunset and Sunrise times, RSS Readers, Translation services, Barcode generation, Text to Braille – hell, it’ll even let you send Free SMS messages and Faxes to anyone!
As you can tell, it’s a pretty expansive list, with many options and a whole ton of data. Not always what you want when you’re trying to do a little Posh-Fu. So that’s why I’m working on a little script for you to dot source, one that “PoShifies” these various services and gives you a lot more options on the command line – look for that soon!
Oh, and before I forget – be sure to check out the PowerScripting Podcast tomorrow night because you’re in for a treat! Me, Marco Shaw, Marcus Oh and Scott Moss will be giving a little panel discussion about PowerShell in OpsMgr – the Command Shell as we’ve come to call it. So come listen in, ask some questions, and maybe win some sweet sweet schwag!
Alas, it seems those Danes are just as goofy as I am. And I’m happy to hear it!
Jakob Svendsen over at CoreTech released a management pack today. That management pack will alert you when the coffee in your coffee pot gets low. I’ll go ahead and embed the video below, but you’ll have to go to their site to download it.
Now, I return to my dank and dark office, where I shall create a SUPERIOR coffee pot monitor!
I’m actually waiting on an order from SparkFun and Jameco to get here as we speak.
If you’re still hesitant to dive into powershell, you’re not alone. To someone who is a light scripter or has limited or no development background it can seem like a daunting task. A lot of the examples you’ll find are easy and simple, but Write-Host –Fore Green “Hello World! I’m using PowerShell” won’t help you with automating all of those tasks out there.
There are a few places to go, and a few books to read, to help you get up to speed with it.
One of the most promising looking resources would have to be Doug Finke’s “Try PowerShell”.
Try PowerShell is an interactive PowerShell tutorial created with PowerShell using WPF (( Wikipedia: Windows Presentation Foundation )) and PowerBoots.
With it you can easily try out PowerShell commands just by clicking on them, no typing needed. You can search for particular commands, run them, and even edit them to see what happens if you change something. This is an awesome tool I don’t think enough people know about.
Is anyone else in the OpsMgr community using Google Wave yet? If you’re not yet ‘in the know’, Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration.
I recently received my invite to it, and have setup a System Center Operations Manager wave to test it out. If you’re a member too, please add jpavleck@gmail.com to your contact list, and I’ll add you to it.
If you’re not a member yet, but would like to be, they’re still handing out invites – just go to the Wave Signup form and fill in your information. If you’re still not sure what it actually is, check out Google’s own “About Google Wave”, read about it on its Wikipedia page, or have a look at the preview video released in May.
Be sure to add them to your list of places to check for all things Operations manager related http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenteroperationsmanager
As usual, Anders is the first post over there!