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

New version of DHCP management packs

New versions of the DHCP management packs for DHCP 2016 and DHCP 2012 and 2012 R2 were released earlier. There are a number of fixes implemented. The 2016 version can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54587 And the 2012 and 2012 R2 version can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39062

Fresh blog for BICTT and Bob

The last few days we have been working to move my blog over from the b2evolution platform I have been using for the last 8 years or so to a WordPress based platform. We are actually working on the company website as well, which was hosted on a custom created platform. The main URL for … Read more

SCOM SharePoint 2013 pack report error

The old Sharepoint 2013 management pack has a known bug in it, where it gives an error that a report can not be deployed. Something like the following: Data Warehouse failed to deploy reports for a management pack to SQL Reporting Services Server.…