Office 365 Message Center Informational alerting rule

Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Rules.MessageCenterAlertingRule.Info (Rule)

When this rule receives a Message Center message of "Stay informed" category, it generates or updates a corresponding Informational Alert in the Operations Manager.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

The rule calls Office 365 Management API to get the list of Messages for the Subscription from the Message Center.

Then, the rule generates an Informational Alert in the Operations Manager targeted to the Subscription for each Message.

The Messages are suppressed by means of a unique ID. If the Message data provided by the API changes, the rule updates the Alert payload and the context accordingly.

See the list of Messages in Office 365 Message Center

Element properties:

Target

Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Subscription

Category

Alert

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

Information

Alert Priority

Normal

Remotable

True

Alert Message

Message Center

{0}

Member Modules:

ID	Module Type	TypeId	RunAs
DS	DataSource	Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.DataSource.MessagesAlerts	Default
Detection	ConditionDetection	System.ExpressionFilter	Default
Alert	WriteAction	System.Health.GenerateAlert	Default

Source Code:

<Rule ID="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Rules.MessageCenterAlertingRule.Info" Enabled="true" Target="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Subscription" ConfirmDelivery="true" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" DiscardLevel="100">

  <Category>Alert</Category>

  <DataSources>

    <DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.DataSource.MessagesAlerts">

      <TimeOut>300</TimeOut>

      <IntervalSeconds>900</IntervalSeconds>

      <SyncTime/>

      <SubscriptionId>$Target/Property[Type="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Subscription"]/SubscriptionId$</SubscriptionId>

      <AuthorityUri>$Target/Property[Type="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Subscription"]/AuthorityUri$</AuthorityUri>

      <OfficeResourceUri>$Target/Property[Type="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Subscription"]/OfficeResourceUri$</OfficeResourceUri>

      <ManagementServiceUri>$Target/Property[Type="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Subscription"]/ManagementServiceUri$</ManagementServiceUri>

      <TenantId>$Target/Property[Type="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Subscription"]/TenantId$</TenantId>

    </DataSource>

  </DataSources>

  <ConditionDetection ID="Detection" TypeID="System!System.ExpressionFilter">

    <Expression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Property[@Name='EventType']</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="String">Message</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Property[@Name='Category']</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="String">Stay informed</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </Expression>

  </ConditionDetection>

  <WriteActions>

    <WriteAction ID="Alert" TypeID="Health!System.Health.GenerateAlert">

      <Priority>1</Priority>

      <Severity>0</Severity>

      <AlertOwner/>

      <AlertMessageId>$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.MessageCenter.AlertMessage"]$</AlertMessageId>

      <AlertParameters>

        <AlertParameter1>$Data/Property[@Name='Description']$</AlertParameter1>

      </AlertParameters>

      <Suppression>

        <SuppressionValue>$Data/Property[@Name='IncidentId']$</SuppressionValue>

      </Suppression>

      <Custom1>$Data/Property[@Name='EventType']$</Custom1>

      <Custom3>$Data/Property[@Name='IncidentStatus']$</Custom3>

      <Custom4>$Data/Property[@Name='IncidentId']$</Custom4>

      <Custom5>$Data/Property[@Name='Title']$</Custom5>

      <Custom8>$Data/Property[@Name='View this message in Office 365 Message Center']$</Custom8>

      <Custom9>$Data/Property[@Name='Additional Information']$</Custom9>

    </WriteAction>

  </WriteActions>

</Rule>