• Also, while lots of people may have one piece of knowledge or another, maybe a full set of the knowledge has never been put in one place before. I wrote up an article for Steve on how to collect data into SCOM from a TSQL query. Nothing in the article isn't available elsewhere. As a matter of fact, throughout the article I point to all the places to get the individual pieces that I was working from. However, this is the first place that all these things will be brought together in one place. It's not that I'm inventing something new or special. I'm just publishing my research so that the next guy has a slightly easier time of it.

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