The engineers from the SBS support team developed a nifty little tool called SBSAlertsCleanup that allows you to manage and filter unwanted event alerts for the SBS 2008/SBS 2011 monitoring reports. More information and a link to download the utility is available on the SBS Official Blog site.
Just a few additional comments and an example on using the utility.
After downloading and unzipping the utility, the instructions tell you to unblock the file. If you’re like me, I wasn’t sure what they were talking about. It’s as simple as right-clicking on the file ‘SBSAlertsCleanup.ps1’, then click Properties, and then click Unblock down in the lower right corner of the Properties box.
To startup Powershell, you will need to open up the Command prompt window using ‘Run as’ an administrator. After the command prompt window opens, simply type Powershell and press enter.
You will then install the utility from the Powershell prompt. Use the CD command to change to the directory where you unzipped the utility, and then run the following command: .\sbsalertscleanup.ps1 –action install
To see what events are already excluded, type: .\sbscleanupwizard.ps1 –action listexclusions
To add an event to be excluded, you will first obtain a list of current reported events, identify the associated ID for the event you wish to excluded, and then exclude it.
To see a current list of all events, type: .\sbscleanupwizard.ps1 –action listevents
To exclude a specific event, type: .\sbscleanupwizard.ps1 –action addexclusion –id XXXXX
(where XXXXX is the numeric ID associated with the event you wish to exclude)