We are pleased to announce that the Microsoft: Windows Server v119 PowerPack has been released on 5/13/26. The download for this release can be found on the Support Portal under the PowerPack filename:
https://support.sciencelogic.com/s/release-version/aBu0z000000XZTGCA4/microsoft-windows-server
Enhancements and Issues Addressed
The following enhancements and addressed issues are included in this release:
- Added the new "Microsoft: Windows Server CPU Average Performance" Dynamic Application to provide an alternate method for calculating the average CPU performance between polling cycles instead of the "Microsoft: Windows Server CPU Performance" Dynamic Application.
NOTE: The "Microsoft: Windows Server CPU Average Performance" Dynamic Application is disabled by default and is not currently included in templates or run book automation policy alignment. To reduce monitoring load, provide correct CPU vitals, and prevent duplicate alerts, only one of the two Dynamic Applications ("Microsoft: Windows Server CPU Average Performance" and "Microsoft: Windows Server CPU Performance") should be aligned to a device at one time.
- Added the new "Microsoft: Windows Server Thread Status Performance" Dynamic Application, which monitors the counts of threads in each possible status, along with a total process count. This Dynamic Application is enabled by default, but will only align automatically during a dynamic discovery. If you want to use it with existing monitored Windows devices, it must be manually aligned to those devices.
- Added the new "Microsoft: Windows Server Certificate Configuration" Dynamic Application to provide information and alerts about expiring certificates.
- Added the new "Microsoft: Print Server Configuration" Dynamic Application, which allows you to monitor printers, ports, and print jobs.
- Added the new "Microsoft: Windows Server Large Open Files" Dynamic Application which provides information on the top 20 open files by size per logical disk.
NOTE: This Dynamic Application is disabled by default and requires additional setup to be monitored. For more information, see the "Configuring the Microsoft: Windows Server Large Open Files Dynamic Application" section in the Monitoring Windows Powershell manual.
- Renamed the "Microsoft: Print Server" Dynamic Application to "Microsoft: Print Server Performance".
- Run book action policy logs are now written to a dedicated file at /var/log/em7/rba_windows_ server.log to simplify troubleshooting Windows Server automation actions. This change affects the following run book action policies:
- Microsoft: Windows Server Check Concurrent (Collector)
- Microsoft: Windows Server Device Class Alignment
- Microsoft: Windows Server Dynamic Application Alignment
- Microsoft: Windows Server Unselect Dynamic Discovery
- Updated the "Microsoft: Windows Server IC Cache Trigger" Dynamic Application to prevent it from saving data for all of its collection objects. This change was implemented due to storage issues caused by the Dynamic Application where it generated a large amount of unused data. (Case: 00389374)
- Updated the "Microsoft: Windows Server CPU Performance" and "Microsoft: Windows Server CPU Average Performance" PowerShell requests to use the "Processor Information" counter set instead of "Processor" on servers where "Processor Information" is available. If the new option is not available, the requests will fall back to use "Processor" instead.
- Updated the classification alert formula for the "Microsoft: Windows Server Device Discovery" Dynamic Application to address an issue that caused prolonged device classification times due to the use of the Prior() function in alert formulas.(Cases: 00442248, 00467630, 00525210)
- Added invalid data checks to the "Microsoft: Windows Server Filesystem Inventory" and "Microsoft: Windows Server Filesystem Performance" Dynamic Applications to address an issue that caused unhandled exception errors. (Case: 00450992)
- Added a discovery snippet to the "Microsoft: Windows Server Device Discovery" Dynamic Application that aligns it on the first pass. That alignment triggers the new "Microsoft: Windows Server Check Concurrent" and "Microsoft: Windows Server Dynamic Application Alignment" run book action policies, which will align the cache consumer Dynamic Applications using run book action policies. (Case: 00534741)
- The "Microsoft: Windows Server Device Discovery" Dynamic Application now triggers the "Microsoft Windows Server Device Found" event, which now triggers the "Microsoft: Windows Server Device Class Alignment" run book action policy. As a result, devices are classified as Windows servers much sooner after discovery.
- Updated the PowerShell request to improve performance of the "Microsoft: Windows Server Software Configuration" Dynamic Application, which reduces agent CPU usage during software inventory collection. (Case: 00626107)
- Updated PowerShell requests calling the "Get-Counter" cmdlet that previously required English language counters to support other languages.
- Removed the "Discovery Object" collection object from the "Microsoft: Windows Server IC Cache Trigger" Dynamic Application to prevent automatic alignment when Windows devices are discovered with Powershell disabled.
- Moved the "Microsoft: Windows Server Unselect Dynamic Discovery" run book action policy from the "Microsoft: Windows Server Device Class Alignment" run book automation policy to the new "Microsoft: Windows Server Dynamic Application Alignment" run book automation policy.
- Added the new "CPU Work Utilization" presentation object to the "Microsoft: Windows Server CPU Performance" Dynamic Application to measure the percentage of CPU time spent doing actual productive work, excluding system overhead.
- Replaced all "Get-WMIObject / GWMI" calls with "Get-CimInstance / GCIM" calls in the following Dynamic Applications:
- Microsoft: Windows Server Configuration Cache
- Microsoft: Windows Server Performance Cache
- Microsoft: Windows Server IC Process Service Cache
- Microsoft: Windows Server Memory Configuration
- Microsoft: Windows Server Print Server
- Microsoft: Windows Server BIOS Configuration
- Updated the "Microsoft: Windows Server OS Configuration" Dynamic Application to collect data about the key management service (KMS), including the activation type, KMS machine name, and port.
- Updated the alert formulas in the "Microsoft: Windows Server Certificate Configuration" Dynamic Application so that non-CA certificate alerts only trigger for certificates in the "My" store, which reduces the amount of alerts triggered for "Root", "AuthRoot", and "TrustedPublisher" store certificates.
- Updated the following Dynamic Applications to run their own PowerShell instead of consuming a cache:
- Microsoft: Windows Server IPStats Performance
- Microsoft: Windows Server TCPStats Performance
- Microsoft: Windows Server UDPStats Performance
- Removed the following PowerShell requests from the "Microsoft: Windows Server Performance Cache" Dynamic Application:
- Windows Server Interface IPv4 Statistics Performance
- Windows Server Interface IPv6 Statistics Performance
- Improved the efficiency of the PowerShell requests of the following Dynamic Applications:
- Microsoft: Windows Server BIOS Configuration
- Microsoft: Windows Server Memory Configuration
- Improved the efficiency of the following PowerShell requests in the " Microsoft: Windows Server Performance Cache" Dynamic Application:
- Windows Server Details - ICDA
- Windows Server Disk Capacity Performance
- Improved the efficiency of the "Windows Server Server CPU Configuration" PowerShell request in the "Microsoft: Windows Server Configuration Cache" Dynamic Application.
- Improved the efficiency of the "Windows Server Port Details - ICDA" PowerShell request in the "Microsoft: Windows Server IC Process Service Cache" Dynamic Application.
- Added the new "Current Load" presentation object to the "Microsoft: Windows Server CPU Performance" Dynamic Application, which shows the server load based on processor queue length and the number of CPU cores.
Please refer to the Microsoft: Windows Server v119 PowerPack File Details in the PowerPacks section of the Support Portal for all information pertaining to the Microsoft: Windows Server v119 PowerPack Support Status, Minimum SL1 Version, Solution Information, and Pricing Information. The Microsoft: Windows Server v119 PowerPack Release File Details also contains links to the Release Notes, Manual, and PowerPack Info Report.
Issues Addressed in the Microsoft: Windows Server v119 PowerPack Release can be found in the Release Notes