Bob Cornelissen The new version of the SQL management pack for SCOM has become available at the close of the year. Thank you for the present! The new version agnostic pack has version 7.0.20.0 and is compatible with SQL 2019 as well. So it covers SQL versions from 2012 and up without the need to create overrides … Read more
We ran into a problem a few days ago while turning on encryption for SQL for a SQL cluster. After turning on encryption for the server we had to restart the SQL service for the database engine. And it failed to start with some strange message. A reboot failed to help. SO we started to … Read more
If you have been using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) for SCOM, the last situation was that the VSAE were supported up to Visual Studio 2017. Now since a few days there is a new download link where we can see that Visual Studio 2019 is now also supported with the new version of … Read more
Finally time permits for a new set of blog posts. I will be writing about SCOM and Azure Monitor and Windows Server or Infrastructure related topics again.Also, as you have seen, we have had a few guest blog posts and we will continue to do that into the future as well. We have a few … Read more
As the title says the new updates for System Center 2016 products has been released as UR8. You can find the KB Articles for each of the products below. Of course I will list the one for SCOM first. Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2016 Operations Managerhttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4514877/update-rollup-8-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2016 … Read more
Silect has posted the recording of the latest set of MP University sessions from May 2019. This is a link to Bob Cornelissen session on Migrating to SCOM 2019! Since there were a lot of questions from this and a previous session and there was break-time left we took a lot of time to answer … Read more
On Wednesday 29 May 2019 Silect will host another SCOM MP University day filled with monitoring goodness! This will be between 10 AM and 5 PM CEST. It will be recorded and broadcast again on 5 June 2019 from 9 AM to 4 PM EDT. This has always been a great day of monitoring goodness … Read more
A few months ago for ExpertsLive India we organised a little blog writing contest, where the winner would receive a prize in Amazon gift cards. This was for the attendees of ExpertsLive India. The received posts have been evaluated and the winner has been declared by a jury lead by John Barreto (MVP): Our winner … Read more
A few hours ago SCOM 2016 UR7 was released at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4492182/update-rollup-7-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager The main list of fixes is: Fixed: Cannot use SQLOleDB.dll to probe databases like Oracle/MySQL. Improved the performance of SCOM console in listing the groups. Operations Manager grooms out the alert history only on an alert closure. Agents by Health State report shows duplicate … Read more
A few hours ago the System Center 2016 Update Rollup 7 was released. It contains updates for DPM SCOM Orchestrator Service Manager SMA VMM You can find the links to the specific articles for each product here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4496928/description-of-update-rollup-7-for-microsoft-system-center-2016