Oktagonal, a company that specialises in infrastructure automation has released a Maintenance Mode scheduler tool for SCOM 2012.

Go here for additional information and pricing. A 30 day trial is also available.

Features:

• Browser-based scheduling, independent of OpsMgr console or web console
• Ad-hoc, regular and recurring schedules
• Embed scheduled reboots into maintenance mode schedules
• Per-class scheduling and per-group scheduling
• Flexible security model for delegation of targets and schedules through AD Group membership
• Full audit and execution history, integrated with OpsMgr DB and DW

I particularly like the ability to convert the tech heavy SCOM object names into easy to identify object names and the ability to restrict who can schedule maintenance for which object without requiring console access and we all know how useful auditing is when it comes to maintenance mode.

Definitely a useful tool, I look forward to seeing later iterations.

The Maintenance mode scheduler tool written by Tim McFadden has been updated to version 4.

Here are the new features:

• Multi-select Computers  This has been the most requested feature as end users often want to schedule multiple computers at a time without having to create groups.

• Multi-select Computers in Integrated dashboard  Now you can select multiple computers in the dashboards without getting an error

• New Search in Computers and Groups  Now instead of scrolling up in down the list you can just start to type in the name of the group or computer and results will be filtered.

• One Click MM now accepts parameters   Some environments One Click MM was not working as the client security was high or there were DNS issues.  Now you can just add the computer as a parameter.

• New Configuration backup tool for easier upgrades  Now you can back your configuration and upgrade to the latest version of SCOM 2012 Maintenance Mode Scheduler with have to reconfigure all of your settings.

More information is available here