Today Microsoft released Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2019. This includes updates for SCOM, Orchestrator, SCSM, DPM and VMM. This page includes links to the separate KB articles for each of the mentioned System Center products with specifics. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4533413/update-rollup-1-for-system-center-2019 I will write a separate post for the SCOM 2019 UR1 updates in a few … Read more
Since yesterday Windows 7 and Windows 2008 (and R2 and R2 SP1) went out of Extended support (If you even had that…). To be honest, we had a good run with those operating systems and they served us well. We hope you have migrated away from these toward Windows 10 and Windows 2016/2019. I am … Read more
Since years I have been using the PKI Certificates MP made by Raphael Burri to monitor certificates on servers with SCOM agents. Most often my customers use the basic functionality of the pack, being the certificates in the personal store of the computer itself. Most of the time we find certificates with issues, such as … Read more
The new version of the SQL management pack for SCOM has become available at the close of the year. Thank you for the present! The new version agnostic pack has version 7.0.20.0 and is compatible with SQL 2019 as well. So it covers SQL versions from 2012 and up without the need to create overrides … Read more
After proudly presenting a non-functional reporting environment in my own home lab while giving SCOM training at a client, it was time to examine what exactly was going wrong. The next time I’d like to show my audience the usefulness of certain reports. Let’s face it – certain reports are irreplaceable if you want to … Read more
We ran into a problem a few days ago while turning on encryption for SQL for a SQL cluster. After turning on encryption for the server we had to restart the SQL service for the database engine. And it failed to start with some strange message. A reboot failed to help. SO we started to … Read more
If you have been using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) for SCOM, the last situation was that the VSAE were supported up to Visual Studio 2017. Now since a few days there is a new download link where we can see that Visual Studio 2019 is now also supported with the new version of … Read more
Lets first start this post with an introduction to the topic. At several of our customers and during several speaking engagements we encountered questions about if certain versions of Linux/Unix were supported or not for newer versions of SCOM (in today’s case the most common being Red Hat 6 on SCOM 2019). The simple answer is that it is … Read more
Finally time permits for a new set of blog posts. I will be writing about SCOM and Azure Monitor and Windows Server or Infrastructure related topics again.Also, as you have seen, we have had a few guest blog posts and we will continue to do that into the future as well. We have a few … Read more
Next is another guest blog by Gourav Kumar… I am writing this block after a while,So let’s make some noise first….. HEY! I am back……I was just busy in my daily operations and learning to complete AZ103, AZ300, AZ301 and AZ500 certifications. Now let’s get started and get back to business for that we are … Read more