This document summarizes a presentation on optimizing System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and presenting services. The presentation covers defining services and service level objectives, identifying performance bottlenecks at the database, management server, and agent layers, and using the SCOM SDK for automation including automatically changing alert resolution states and resending alerts. Code examples are provided for monitoring database performance, identifying SQL and I/O wait times, and automating tasks using PowerShell and the SCOM SDK.