Bob Cornelissen On Thursday 14 May 2020 at 04:00 pm CET we will host a webinar called “Windows 2019 Hardening” This webinar will be in collaboration with Calcom Software, who have a lot of expertise in server hardening in large environments. This webinar will be held at 14 May 2020 at 4PM CET. (Amsterdam time zone) Title: Windows 2019 Hardening: … Read more
Here is another guest post by Gourav Kumar he submitted a little bit earlier when PowerShell 7 just came out. He talks about some of the differences between the versions and command results. Enjoy: I have just installed the new PowerShell 7 on my system and I am curious to see how new things … Read more
Today we have another blog post from our guest blogger Gourav Kumar. This time he writes about using VSCode for Azure DevOps and making the connection. How to configure VS code for Azure DevOps 1. Overview This article provides details about how to use VS code for Azure DevOps along with GiT repositories. … Read more
While trying to remove some management packs from SCOM we found a problem where for a few packs it would give a timeout after an hour of looking at a SCOM console saying Busy… at the bottom of the screen. In this case we were swapping out the older SQL packs of 7.0.7.0 version with … Read more
Hello all followers of this blog. Starting yesterday we moved the blog which was first at www.bictt.com/blogs to blog.topqore.com. We did a move before at the same bictt address but to a different blog software (b2evolution to WordPress). So now we moved it to TopQore and created translation rules for the previous links to still … Read more
On Thursday 16 April 2020 at 4 PM CET (Amsterdam) we have hosted a webinar called “How to Upgrade SCOM like a Champ!”. See below how to register for the recording! Description: In this webinar we will talk you through the major points to plan for when doing a SCOM upgrade or side-by-side migration and … Read more
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