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.

Error 31901 during Exchange 2003 discovery

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At one of my customers I accidentally came across a machine that was not running its dicovery of the Exchange 2003 role correctly. I was actually looking for something else and had to connect to the mail server and because I did not remember its name I…

Printer Management Pack

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So while on the subject of great things from Steve Rachui :p :>> 88| , he also wrote extensively about the Printer management pack and alternatives to make it better (like the Kevin Holman addendum by the way) and also the great additional printer mp tha…

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Remotely testing SQL connections

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One nice gem from Steve Rachui’s blog is a trick on how to simply troubleshoot remote SQL connections.
Just create an empty txt file anywhere on the disk and give it an UDL extension and click it. You will see a tool popping up with several tabs. on t…

SCOM monitoring the Configuration Service

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Thanks to Marnix Wolf for posting about the new SCOM R2 core management pack 6.1.7595.0 and that it has an important monitor turned off by default. You should turn this monitor on in order to monitor the service and if needed restart it as suggested by M…