Orchestrator Scheduling Challenge
Hi. I've been using SC orchestrator for almost a decade now. However, not until today have I needed to run something hourly and on the hour. Presently, when I configure this, in the "Monitor Date/Time activity I specify 0 days, 1 hour, and 0 minutes. Then I check the "Starting" checkbox and enter 0 for "minutes after the hour". Press finish, and come back in and it's unchecked. How can I schedule my hourly job to run at the hour mark? I have a workaround to run at the 1 minute after the hour mark, but that's ... not what we really want.System Center 2022 Update Rollup 4
We are pleased to announce Update Rollup 4 (UR4) for System Center 2022. This release continues our commitment to stability, security, and platform currency across on‑premises datacenter operations, with targeted fixes and compatibility improvements for Operations Manager, Service Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, and Orchestrator. Details below. Virtual Machine Manager Added support for newer Linux guest OS versions, including RHEL 10, Oracle Linux 10, Rocky Linux 10, Debian 13, SUSE Linux 15, and OpenEuler 24.03. Improved VM deployment and networking, including IP assignment for Ubuntu 24.04 VMs and network adapter scenarios. Improved VMM Console stability for VM, virtual switch, and Fiber Channel HBA management scenarios Fixed Smart Card authentication in Virtual Machine Viewer on Windows Server 2025. Improved VMM and SCOM integration by correcting objects created for VirtualManagerDB and its database engine. Learn more: Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2022 Virtual Machine Manager. Operations Manager Support for OpenSSL 3.x distros like Debian 13, RHEL 10, Rocky Linux 10, AlmaLinux 10, and Oracle Linux 10. Support for new distros like Ubuntu 26. Improved Web Console and dashboard reliability. Improved support for GB characters in reports, dashboards, and alert views. Improved Linux monitoring for system properties such as LastBootUpTime and NumberOfUsers on newer distributions. Improved agent discovery and related error handling. Restored SCX agent certificate signing functionality. Restricted PowerShell widget editing to administrators only. Learn more: Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2022 Operations Manager. Service Manager Support for latest MSOLEDBSQL19 provider. Microsoft Graph API support for Exchange Connector. Microsoft Graph API support for Outgoing Email Notifications. Learn more: Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2022 Service Manager. Orchestrator Updated the WebAPI code to allow a runbook to execute successfully when an input parameter and an output parameter have the same name. Upgraded the Orchestrator Command-Line Activity Wizard from x86 (32-bit) to x64 (64-bit), making it available in SCO 2022. Learn more about bugs fixes: Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2022 Orchestrator Data Protection Manager Enhanced support for SQL Server forced encryption and secure SSL/TLS communication. Improved reliability across SharePoint recovery, Exchange, Hyper-V, storage migration, and online backup scenarios. Improved DPM Console and PowerShell stability. Added multiple accessibility and usability improvements. Learn more about bugs fixes: Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2022 Data Protection Manager We are committed to delivering quality & security updates with UR releases at regular cadence. For any feedback and queries, you can reach us at systemcenterfeedback@microsoft.com.
SCSM 2025 installation failure - _PopulateUserRoles
Let me lay out the full picture first. Windows Server 2025, Remote SQL Server 2022 CU 20 FCI (used for internal reasons, but I also tried using Always On and encountered the same error), and a clean installation of SCSM 2025 Management Server. I also tried CU19, but the same issue occurs. The installation starts without any problems. It goes through all the steps: creates the database, configures registry settings, configures the server, installs services, and imports management packs. But right after that, I get the following error: _"An error occurred while executing a custom action: PopulateUserRoles This upgrade attempt has failed before permanent modifications were made. Upgrade has successfully rolled back to the original state of the system. Once the corrections are made, you can retry the upgrade for this role." Immediately after this, the Event Viewer logs the following Event ID 36882: "The certificate received from the remote server was issued by an untrusted certificate authority. Because of this, none of the data contained in the certificate can be validated. The TLS connection request has failed. The attached data contains the server certificate. The SSPI client process is rundll32 (PID: 5084).” SQL does not require encryption and is not using any custom certificate. Just to clarify, the internal CA certificate is installed on all servers. The event is weird because, at this point, the installation has already created and configured the database. It doesn’t make sense to me, but the event appears at the exact same moment the installation fails. I’ve already checked permissions on both SQL and SCSM. The service account is a local administrator, has "Log on as a service" rights, and is a sysadmin on SQL. I’ve searched everywhere online but haven’t found a solution... Any ideas? Thanks.Gui to deploy folder contents to multiple VMs
I am trying to improve imaging computers where I work. I need to create a gui for new hires since the imaging process is so complicated. I need the GUI to request necessary computer names that are being imaged and then copy files from a local workstation to the machines that are being imaged on the network that our technicians do not have physical access to. I have turned to Powershell for the solution in an attempt to improve on my knowledge which is basic really. Below is the code I have come up with so far. In this code I am getting the location of the file. I would rather copy the entire folder instead of the file but I couldnt find the code to do that. So, if that is possible please show me how. If not I figure I would have to save these imaging files to a ZIP file. Then I could maybe use this GUI I am working on to move the zip file to the remote computers. Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms # Create the form $form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form $form.Text = "File and Network Location Collector" $form.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(400, 200) # Create the label for file name $fileLabel = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label $fileLabel.Text = "File Name:" $fileLabel.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(10, 20) $form.Controls.Add($fileLabel) # Create the text box for file name $fileTextBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox $fileTextBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(100, 20) $fileTextBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(250, 20) $form.Controls.Add($fileTextBox) # Create the label for network location $networkLabel = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label $networkLabel.Text = "Network Location:" $networkLabel.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(10, 60) $form.Controls.Add($networkLabel) # Create the text box for network location $networkTextBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox $networkTextBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(100, 60) $networkTextBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(250, 20) $form.Controls.Add($networkTextBox) # Create the button to submit $submitButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button $submitButton.Text = "Submit" $submitButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(150, 100) $form.Controls.Add($submitButton) # Add event handler for the button click $submitButton.Add_Click({ $fileName = $fileTextBox.Text $networkLocation = $networkTextBox.Text [System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("File Name: $fileName`nNetwork Location: $networkLocation") }) # Show the form $form.ShowDialog() In this portion of the code it is copying from one source to many locations. Thank you for any assistance as this would help my organization a lot. We are getting several new hires who are very new to the industry. This would be a huge blessing. Pardon the change in font size. It did that for no reason, its my first time using the blog, and there appears to be no way to change the sizes lol. Forgive me. #Define the source folder and the list of target computers $sourceFolder = "C:\Path\To\SourceFolder" $destinationFolder = "C:\Path\To\DestinationFolder" $computers = @("Computer1", "Computer2", "Computer3") # Replace with actual computer names # Function to copy the folder function Copy-Folder { param ( [string]$source, [string]$destination ) Copy-Item -Path $source -Destination $destination -Recurse -Force } # Execute the copy operation on each computer foreach ($computer in $computers) { Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ScriptBlock { param ($source, $destination) Copy-Folder -source $source -destination $destination } -ArgumentList $sourceFolder, $destinationFolder } Write-Host "Folder copied to all specified computers."
