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.

SCOMathon June 2021 sessions

June 4, 2021 by Bob Cornelissen

As you have read in one of my previous posts, TopQore is a sponsor and speaker at SCOMathon June 2021 edition. It the biggest event dedicated to SCOM and Microsoft monitoring solutions of the year….

Speaking at SCOMathon June 2021

April 13, 2021 by Bob Cornelissen

This year I will be speaking again at the SCOMathon conference of 8+9 June 2021. I am very excited about this, because this event manages to bring together many SCOM experts to talk about SCOM…

SCOM Version Poll

April 12, 2021 by Bob Cornelissen

Hello SCOM community friends. We would like to know what versions of SCOM you are running in Production. This is also a research for the upcoming SCOMathon session in June (will blog separately). We would…

What are the new features in SCOM 2019 UR3

March 23, 2022March 31, 2021 by Bob Cornelissen

Last night Microsoft released System Center 2019 Update Rollup 3 (UR3) which was mentioned here, and with it came SCOM 2019 UR3. Earlier today I wrote about the download location and what fixes are included…

SCOM 2019 UR3 is released and downloadable

March 23, 2022March 31, 2021 by Bob Cornelissen

Last night the System Center team released the System Center Operations Manager 2019 Update Rollup 3 update (SCOM 2019 UR3).

The KB number is KB4594078 for this one with server version number 10.19.10505.0 (also management…

System Center 2019 UR3 released

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 by Bob Cornelissen

Last night Microsoft released Update Rollup 3 (UR3) for System Center 2019, with updates for the products DPM, SCOM, VMM and SCORCH.

The overview page with the links to the separate products can be found…

Windows Admin Center 2103 released

March 5, 2021March 4, 2021 by Bob Cornelissen

Windows Admin Center (WAC) has been growing as the new default tool to manage your Windows Servers. It has been getting more and more extensions which essentially replace the old style MMC based management tools,…

SCOM as a secure application

March 5, 2021March 3, 2021 by Bob Cornelissen

Lately we regularly have chats with customers about SCOM as an application and the security measures it has.
For example if TLS1.2 is supported, because customer wants to turn older versions off. Another example…

December 2020 SCOMathon sessions

March 23, 2022November 23, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

In the second week of December is the SCOMathon Workshop week. Every day for 5 days there will be a different workshop topic. This is from 7 December to 11 December.

We at TopQore…

SCOM 2016 UR10 released

November 19, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

A few weeks ago System Center 2016 Update Rollup 10 was released, but with a short delay on the SCOM update UR10.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4581612/description-of-update-rollup-10-for-microsoft-system-center-2016

Today the SCOM 2016 UR10 has been released as well.

Let’s have…