OMI Vulnerabilities in cross-plat management extensions

Using SCOM or Azure to monitor or manage Linux/Unix systems? Read on! Recently a number of serious vulnerabilities have been found in the OMI Framework, which is used as underlying management infrastructure tooling for managing and monitoring Linux/Unix systems. Examples are the SCOM and Log Analytics agents for these systems in Azure and on-prem. And … Read more

Azure Automation Runbook RBAC Delegation

Often it can be useful for other teams and departments to edit and run their own Azure automation runbooks, however, this creates a challenge – permissions. Runbooks live and are managed from within Azure Automation accounts which are in turn connected to log analytics workspaces and their associated agents. Both automation accounts and log analytics … Read more

System Center 2019 Update Rollup 2 released

Yesterday we saw the release of System Center 2019 Update Rollup 2 for the following products: SCOM, SCDPM, SCVMM, SCSM, and SCORCH with fixes and improvements. Some have quite a long list of fixes and improvements, so in this post  WILL FIRST place the pointers to the KB articles for those individual updates. System Center … Read more

Webinar Windows 2019 Hardening

On Thursday 14 May 2020 at 04:00 pm CET we will host a webinar called “Windows 2019 Hardening” This webinar will be in collaboration with Calcom Software, who have a lot of expertise in server hardening in large environments. This webinar will be held at 14 May 2020 at 4PM CET. (Amsterdam time zone) Title: Windows 2019 Hardening: … Read more