Bob Cornelissen 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
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