Bob Cornelissen

As you might be aware, nowadays we see more and more AI generated content and helpers. Microsoft often calls those Copilot. There are a fair number of those out there already. One of those is the copilot for helping to write code through GitHub. It is not just to write code, it can also be … Read more

Last night Microsoft released UR5 for SCOM 2019. As a second remark, also DPM 2019 UR5 got released recently. And VMM 2019 also has a UR5 released. Back to SCOM now. SCOM 2019 UR5 is KB5025123 and can be found here https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5025123 The file downloads can be found in the catalog at Microsoft Update Catalog … Read more

We did a webinar about ChatGPT last time and we wanted to dive one deeper into combining the power of AI and ChatGPT with our other favorite product – SCOM – and see how that works out. Lucky our friends at GripMatix created something for that, so let’s investigate. When: Wednesday 12 April 2023 at … Read more

I hope you are all aware that GripMatix makes SCOM management packs for monitoring Citrix solutions. This has been a gaping hole for a few years since the pack from comtrade was bought by Citrix and next basically stopped. Since a while, we can now use the GripMatix packs for this and I highly encourage … Read more

Microsoft announced yesterday that Ubuntu 22.04 and RHEL 9 will be supported in SCOM 2019 and SCOM 2022. This is due to having added OpenSSL 3.0 support as well to the product and adding new packs to support these flavors. For SCOM 2022 this is implemented as a hotfix on top of UR1 as KB5024286. … Read more

Microsoft released Windows Admin Center (WAC) 2211 yesterday as Generally Available. There is of course a lot of good stuff included again in the areas of the platform itself, Azure Stack HCI management, WAC in Azure etc. A good list of all the good new stuff can be found on the following page: Windows Admin … Read more

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) has been around for many years as you all know. In most cases this runs in a datacenter and monitors your datacenter resources, such as infrastructure, servers and applications. The last few years more companies have been adopting cloud and hybrid workloads as well as datacenter workloads. We have … Read more

We occasionally get questions from the community about monitoring mountpoints. Either for Exchange mount points or SQL servers with mount points. Lately I saw one for Exchange Mount Points and SCOM. Now, the thing is that Exchange has a lot of built-in monitoring scripts whether you use a monitoring product such as SCOM or not. … Read more

Hi all. After encountering some problems at a location with the installation and running of SCOM, which was related to SQL Authentication settings, it is time to write up a blog post about it. I also have a bit of information about what happens if you do not set this up right. Theory In the … Read more