SCOM 2016 UR6 released

As stated in my previous post System Center 2016 products (SCOM, DPM, VMM, Orch) came with SCOM Update Rollup 6. For SCOM this means a number of things got fixed, See the excerpt from the KB article below:   Improvements and issues that are fixed Application pool crashes and SharePoint application crashes because of APM agent … Read more

System Center 2016 Update Rollup 6 released

A few days ago System Center 2016 Update Rollup 6 was released. The products receiving UR6 are: SCOM, DPM, VMM, Orchestrator. The link below has the links to all 4 product UR6 pages: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4469613/description-of-update-rollup-6-for-microsoft-system-center-2016 I will make a separate post about the SCOM specific update. Bob Cornelissen

Guest blog posts on BICTT blog

In the past years we have had a few guest blog posts on this blog from people outside of BICTT. Friends from the community. From today we will welcome some regular posts from a friend Gourav Kumar. Last few years he has been working on SCOM, Log Analytics, Azure, PowerShell and more. As always all … Read more

Webinar Migrating to SCOM 1801

On 3 May 2018 we are going to do a webinar about SCOM 1801. The webinar is hosted by Savision, and there are two main presenters. These are Aditya Goda from the SCOM product team and myself Bob Cornelissen. Main topics: HTML5 Dashboards Linux Monitoring Improvements Migration Planning and the new “Semi-Annual Channel Release” Model … Read more

New ebook SCOM Reporting guide

The last few weeks we have been working on an ebook about SCOM Reporting requested by Savision. Today the final version of the ebook has been released to the website and can be downloaded. There is also an extra in there, which is a new management pack containing a better SLA report, which works well … Read more

Presenting at ExpertsLive US 2018

Bob will be presenting 2 sessions at ExpertsLive US 2018 February 8-9 in Houston Texas. We will do one presentation as sponsor session on behalf of Savision on the topic of SCOM Reporting and visualization on Thursday. You will see more on this subject coming in the next few days by the way so stay … Read more

Finding the meaning of SCOM Web check error codes

After creating a web check monitor in SCOM using the Web Application Availability Monitoring template or the one for Web Application Transaction Monitoring you might get errors on the monitored web pages you did not expect. Default error codes like 400/401 and such are relatively normal status codes, but there are more things which may … Read more