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 Monitoring in a Hybrid World 26 March

April 28, 2020March 4, 2020 by 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…

What if a SCOM Update Rollup is very slow

April 27, 2020February 28, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

SCOM 2019 Update Rollup 1 (UR1) what is included

April 27, 2020February 4, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

System Center 2019 UR1 is released

April 27, 2020February 4, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

Windows 2008 and Windows 7 out of support

April 27, 2020January 15, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

New version PKI Certificates monitoring pack for SCOM

April 27, 2020December 31, 2019 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

New version SQL Management Pack 7.0.20.0 available

April 27, 2020December 29, 2019 by 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…

SQL service not starting after turning SSL encryption on

April 27, 2020December 5, 2019 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

New System Center Visual Studio Authoring Extensions available

April 27, 2020November 28, 2019 by Bob Cornelissen

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 blog posts

November 27, 2019 by Bob Cornelissen

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…