Azure Stack HCI Hands-On – Part 1 – Setting Up
After reading a lot about Azure Stack HCI, and comparing the two flavors (Windows Server HCI vs Azure Stack HCI), I think it is about time we get some dirt on our hands. That’s right, it…
SCOM 2022 UR1 is released!
System Center 2022 UR1 was recently released, and it comes with a lot of issues fixed. As an enhancement, it also ties with another big announcement in the SCOM space in recent days, the…
Windows Admin Center 2211 generally available
Microsoft released Windows Admin Center (WAC) 2211 yesterday as Generally Available.
There is of course a lot of good stuff included again in the areas of the platform itself, Azure Stack HCI management,…
How to start with SCOM Managed Instance
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) has been around for many years as you all know. In most cases this runs in a datacenter and monitors your datacenter resources, such as infrastructure, servers and…
Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Sizer
Looking to transform your data center into more modern, easy to manage and cloud-driven infrastructure? Well, first of all – congratulations! You’re on the right path 😀 – Azure Stack HCI is probably the…
SCOM and Mount Point monitoring
We occasionally get questions from the community about monitoring mountpoints. Either for Exchange mount points or SQL servers with mount points. Lately I saw one for Exchange Mount Points and SCOM.
Now, the…
SCOM and SQL Authentication
Hi all. After encountering some problems at a location with the installation and running of SCOM, which was related to SQL Authentication settings, it is time to write up a blog post about it. I…
Cheap SCOM training – and Cloud skills challenge
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,…
New SCOM management pack for Certificate monitoring
SCOM monitoring evolves constantly, sometimes through versions and features of the product and sometimes through the Management Packs. Today I want to talk about monitoring certificates and CRL’s for Windows servers and PKI.
For years…
Log Analytics connection for old SCOM agents will stop working soon
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…