Bob Cornelissen We had a server connected to Log Analytics workspace through the MMA agent and it had suffered a few hard power-downs. The machine went into fixing files on the disk and such in a checkdsk action. Maybe something got broken at that time. But we saw that it was no longer talking to Log Analytics … Read more
Microsoft released a new hotfix yesterday for SCOM 2019. Specifically to handle a few items which appeared after some new features were released around alert management. The items in this fix: User will be able to edit columns on closed Alerts irrespective of Health State. Alerts can now be closed if the underlying Monitor’s Alerting … Read more
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about a slow SCOM update rollup and it took so long because of agents being placed in Pending Management during the update and in big environment this might take a while. I will show you what it looks like below as well. Yesterday and today we … Read more
This is an article written by our friend Stoyan Chalakov. We found out a few months ago we had been researching the same strange installation issues of SCOM at customers of ours. We discussed that researching and finding the solution took a long while, because you need to find the exact issue keywords. So it … Read more
On 26 March 2020 at 15:00 CET (Amsterdam time) we hosted a webinar titled “Monitoring in a Hybrid World” with as speaker… Bob Cornelissen. I have been getting a lot of questions the last year about monitoring in a hybrid world as I would call it. Questions such as… Can I monitor Cloud resources and … Read more
Had an interesting case today where we were implementing Update Rollup 8 for SCOM 2016 on a management server and it took very long. It took so long that we decided to kill it and start it again. And again it seemed to hang. So reboot and try again. We had difficulty finding the … Read more
Today Microsoft released UR1 for System Center 2019. I created a post about that earlier today. This post is specific for the SCOM product. There are a number of things you need to know for this release and I will include links to bits and pieces below in the text. There are a few informational … Read more
Today Microsoft released Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2019. This includes updates for SCOM, Orchestrator, SCSM, DPM and VMM. This page includes links to the separate KB articles for each of the mentioned System Center products with specifics. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4533413/update-rollup-1-for-system-center-2019 I will write a separate post for the SCOM 2019 UR1 updates in a few … Read more
Since yesterday Windows 7 and Windows 2008 (and R2 and R2 SP1) went out of Extended support (If you even had that…). To be honest, we had a good run with those operating systems and they served us well. We hope you have migrated away from these toward Windows 10 and Windows 2016/2019. I am … Read more
Since years I have been using the PKI Certificates MP made by Raphael Burri to monitor certificates on servers with SCOM agents. Most often my customers use the basic functionality of the pack, being the certificates in the personal store of the computer itself. Most of the time we find certificates with issues, such as … Read more