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.

SCOM auto-recovery when cluster service stops

March 23, 2022March 26, 2009 by Bob Cornelissen

Came across a blogpost from Kevin Holman today about the behavior of SCOM in combination with the Cluster service when the Clustering Management pack is installed. When the cluster service goes down on a cluster node there is an automatic recovery that i…

SQL CPU running at 100 percent on SCOM Reporting Server

March 26, 2009 by Bob Cornelissen

Had an issue yesterday where a customer has an SQL instance on a cluster where the Operations Manager datawarehouse was hosted. Right after starting the SQL services all processors in the machine quickly rose to 100% CPU usage. It was impossible to even…

SQL Reporting Services Render PDF in A4 paper size instead of Letter

March 17, 2009 by Bob Cornelissen

Everywhere I come to deploy SCOM a common question is to get lots of reports out of it. However after creating the reports and scheduling them for delivery it mostly stops. However as soon as somebody tries to print the reports the printers usually hang…

FastCGI PHP on Windows 2008

March 15, 2009 by Bob Cornelissen

Ran into an issue today while playing around with PHP on Windows 2008. Installed the CGI module for the IIS role (giving you FastCGI) and installing PHP. Followed all the common guides and eventually did not get a simple phpinfo to run. Got an error 500…

Start of the BICTT Blog

March 15, 2009 by Bob Cornelissen

Started today with a new blog for BICTT.

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