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, TopQore offers a range of SCOM certifications and trainings, from Operator to Administrator and soon Specialist. You can find the … Read more
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 connect up, and this older version of communication will be closed on 1 November 2022. Meaning that from that point … Read more
When using Windows Admin Center to connect to servers, it can happen that a server pops up an error while connecting saying something like “The specified module ‘CimCmdLets’ was not loaded because no valid module file was found.” It happened to me with one of 2 identical servers, or which would be identical in theory … Read more
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
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
In the month of May 2021 the Microsoft MVP’s were challenged to participate voluntarily in a cloud skills challenge. During time of the Microsoft Ignite events there are more often learning challenges for the whole public, which means going through a number of Microsoft Learn modules within a certain time. Usually this is about 8 … Read more
On Thursday 10 September 2020 at 04:00 pm CET we will host a webinar called “Automate your SCOM Environment” We asked our good friend Michael Seidl from Au2mator and fellow Microsoft MVP to talk about the combination of automation and SCOM. Of course what he talks about applies to many other products as well in … Read more
Here is another blog post by Mike Hosker about IIS permissions in combination with WordPress addons on a VM: First, I must start off with a confession here. I totally borked the file permissions I am about to show you the first time I did this and was subsequently up until 5am rebuilding the server. … Read more
A few days ago NiCE released their newer version V3.10 of the Active 365 management pack for monitoring Microsoft 365 and Office 365 components. For some highlights of new features check the list below: New with the NiCE Active 365 Management Pack 3.1 release New Service Level Reports for Microsoft 365 Services New Service Level … Read more
Welcome to part 2 of my post about moving the TopQore blog, twice! Here in part 2 we will cover the 2020 move to Azure public cloud and putting the blog under our new subdomain. Come early 2020, BICTT is now TopQore and our blog is now on the old domain! We have two options … Read more