In this webinar, we will discuss shortly what is new in SCOM 2025 and latest versions leading up to it. What the migration or upgrade paths look like. What is different in support. And how are you getting to the latest versions of SCOM. We were invited by our friends at Silect to discuss this … Read more
On Wednesday 20 November my colleague ALi Genc is presenting a webinar for the SCOMathon Coffee Break series entitled “Linux Agent failed upgrades and what do to about them”. This webinar came about after a blog post about SCOM Linux agents failing to upgrade to the next version, showing as upgraded at first, and next … Read more
Today Microsoft has released the newest version of SCOM 2025 with other products in the System Center Suite as well (VMM, DPM, SCSM, SCOM, and SCORCH). We were fortunate enough to test this version a bit before it got released in preview versions and in the currently released version. As Microsoft has released Azure Monitor … Read more
As you may know, TopQore has a range of trainings for SCOM and SCOM MI available, ranging from Operator to Administrator, to Specialist and Architect. I am writing today to announce some upcoming dates for the pieces of training because it is often requested. Dates in chronological order for Q4 2024: Date Training Start Time … Read more
When in-place upgrading Windows Server 2012 Server to a newer version, SCOM agents can encounter a common issue: duplicate monitors for logical disks and IIS components. Understanding and Resolving SCOM Duplicate Monitors in In-Place Upgraded Environments A few days ago, one of our customers has contacted us telling they have realised that there was a … Read more
Although SCOM and SSRS often works seamlessly, recent versions of SSRS 2022 have introduced issues running performance-related reports in SCOM 2022. A few weeks ago one of our customers running SCOM 2022 has reported an error with Reports in their SCOM 2022 installation. Some of them were working fine while the ones related or linked … Read more
Yesterday Microsoft announced the General Availability (GA) of the SCOM Agent and Gateway extensions to deploy agents and establish communication for the agents in Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (SCOM MI). It uses Azure Arc to deploy and update the agent extensions and it can establish the connection trust that way as well. Challenges When … Read more
When Microsoft releases a new UNIX\Linux agent version and you upgrade the agents, it is possible that the SCOM Console shows upgrade as done but the versions may revert back to the previous version. We will look into why this happens and how to solve it. In low privileged environments, defined UNIX\Linux accounts in your … Read more
We are thrilled to hear Microsoft has announced System Center 2025, the next release of Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) will be GA (General Availability) in the fall of 2024. This schedule means that System Center 2025 will have updated versions of its System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), Service Manager (SM), System … Read more
We have updated the System Center 2022 Orchestrator to Update Rollup 2 few days back. After updating we tried creating a Runbook with the Get Alert activity of System Center Integration Pack for System Center – Operations Manager (SCOM) in Runbook designer as part of our internal activity. Everything was working as expected before the … Read more