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.

Adding ChatGPT magic to SCOM with GripMatix

16 October 202631 March 2023 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

SCOM 2019 and 2022 now have OpenSSL3 support

16 October 20268 March 2023 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

Windows Admin Center 2211 generally available

16 October 202614 December 2022 by Bob Cornelissen

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,…

How to start with SCOM Managed Instance

16 October 202612 December 2022 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

SCOM and Mount Point monitoring

16 October 20261 December 2022 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

SCOM and SQL Authentication

16 October 202613 October 2022 by Bob Cornelissen

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…

Cheap SCOM training – and Cloud skills challenge

9 October 2022 by Bob Cornelissen

Hello friends from the SCOM and monitoring community!

I want to take this opportunity to call out a few leaning opportunity regarding both SCOM and also Cloud technologies, so bare with me.

First of all,…

SCOM Certificate Monitoring with the Official Microsoft Pack

19 October 202619 September 2022 by Bob Cornelissen

SCOM certificate monitoring now has an official management pack from Microsoft. SCOM keeps improving, sometimes through new versions of the product and sometimes through new management packs. In this post, I look at the…

Log Analytics connection for old SCOM agents will stop working soon

19 September 2022 by Bob Cornelissen

If you are using SCOM MMA agents, and you have them connected to Azure Monitor Log Analytics, you will want to take a look at this.

The SCOM agents used to use SSL V1 to…

New Microsoft Learn experience

19 September 2022 by Bob Cornelissen

A few days ago, Microsoft announced changes to the docs and learning experience. As you know I am a big advocate for continued learning and for connecting with the community.

If you go to Learn.microsoft.com…