Bob Cornelissen

This blog is run by Bob Cornelissen, a System Center enthusiast for a number of years now and managing consultant for TopQore (formerly BICTT). I work daily with SCOM in designing, implementing, configuring and extending this great product. Also I work with SCVMM, SCDPM, Azure Monitor Log Analytics products and a lot of MS Server technologies including Azure Cloud. I am very honoured to receive the MVP award in 2012 to 2020 and the MCC award in 2011 + 2012 for SCOM and System Center. Author of the Mastering SCOM 2012 book.

Webinar Windows 2019 Hardening

May 4, 2020 by 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…

PowerShell 7 and the Difference in ForEach, ForEach-Object and ForEach-Object -Parallel

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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:

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How to configure VS Code for Azure DevOps

May 1, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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

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SCOM removing management pack gives timeout

April 30, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

Moving blog to blog.topqore.com

April 27, 2020April 24, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

Webinar – How to Upgrade SCOM like a Champ!

April 28, 2020April 7, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

MMA agent not connecting to Log Analytics

April 27, 2020April 7, 2020 by 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…

New hotfix for SCOM 2019 UR1 for alert management

April 27, 2020April 2, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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…
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SCOM upgrade DAS service fails and update hangs

September 4, 2020March 24, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

System Center 2019 Operations Manager (SCOM) installation routine and the unsecure Kerberos encryption

March 23, 2022March 15, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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…