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.

Mastering System Center 2012 Operations Manager

March 23, 2022April 24, 2012 by Bob Cornelissen

Mastering System Center 2012 Operations Manager
By
Paul Keely , Bob Cornelissen , Ivan Hadzhiyski , Kevin Greene , Sam Allen , Arie de Haan , Telmo Sampaio
More information to follow.

New KB: How to add a product key to an eval version of System Center 2012 Operations Manager

April 12, 2012 by Bob Cornelissen

A few days ago Microsoft released a KB article which explains how to add a product key to an evaluation version of SCOM 2012. It is a simple procedure. You can find the KB article here: How to add a product key to an eval version of System Center 2012…

SCOM Biztalk 2010 Noise Reduction MP

March 28, 2024April 12, 2012 by Bob Cornelissen

Lately I have been working to tune a BizTalk 2010 management pack, because it was creating a lot of alerts whenever something went wrong (hundreds and sometimes thousands). I have found in the past with a BT 2006 MP that that one has the same behavior a…

Upgrading DPM 2010 to DPM 2012 RTM

April 9, 2012 by Bob Cornelissen

So after playing around on test machines, I found it time to upgrade our (small) production DPM 2010 installation to DPM 2012. With the RTM bits of course. Yeah! We have a few domain controllers, Exchange servers, file shares, web servers, a SharePoint…

Technical documentation for System Center 2012 for download

April 3, 2012 by Bob Cornelissen

Yes, we have even more new downloads for System Center!
For a number of products the technical documentation has been made available for download.
Here is a list of links:
Operations Manager 2012 : http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?…

Operations Manager 2012 Sizing Helper Tool released

April 3, 2012 by Bob Cornelissen

Got the message that the Operations Manager 2012 Sizing Helper Tool has been released on the first of April and that this is not a joke. 🙄 Have been using the SCOM 2007 sizing tool before, so now we can use the SCOM 2012 sizing tool as a reference.…

New SQL management pack released

April 3, 2012 by Bob Cornelissen

Yesterday a new version of the SQL management pack for SCOM was released. Yes we are now on a roll with releasing new stuff! The fresh version of the SQL mp is now 6.3.173.0.
The new version supports also monitoring of SQL 2012 now and will work for SC…

New AD management pack released

April 3, 2012 by Bob Cornelissen

A few days ago a new Active Directory management pack was released for SCOM. It is now version 6.0.7822.0.
The changes in the version can be seen below as taken directly from the download page:
The AD management pack is generally a good MP and…

nworks 5.7 automation error

March 13, 2012 by Bob Cornelissen

A few days ago I was playing around with auto installation of one of my favorite products, nworks 5.7, and ran into a small bug. nworks 5.7 has an installation guide with good guidance on how to use command lines to install the different components, suc…

Blogging 3 years

March 13, 2012 by Bob Cornelissen

I just noticed that I have been blogging for three years now. Around 265 posts until now.
The last few weeks have been a bit more quiet as I got swamped with work and some other things.
I will be picking up again these weeks and am looking forward to…

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