TopQore Blog - Part 15

PowerShell 7 and the Difference in ForEach, ForEach-Object and ForEach-Object -Parallel

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

Here is another guest post by Gourav Kumar he submitted a little bit earlier when PowerShell 7 just came out. He talks about some of the differences between the versions and command results. Enjoy: I have just installed the new PowerShell 7 on my system and I am curious to see how new things … Read more

How to configure VS Code for Azure DevOps

May 1, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

Today we have another blog post from our guest blogger Gourav Kumar. This time he writes about using VSCode for Azure DevOps and making the connection. How to configure VS code for Azure DevOps 1. Overview This article provides details about how to use VS code for Azure DevOps along with GiT repositories. … Read more

SCOM removing management pack gives timeout

April 30, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

While trying to remove some management packs from SCOM we found a problem where for a few packs it would give a timeout after an hour of looking at a SCOM console saying Busy… at the bottom of the screen. In this case we were swapping out the older SQL packs of 7.0.7.0 version with … Read more

Moving blog to blog.topqore.com

April 27, 2020April 24, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

Hello all followers of this blog. Starting yesterday we moved the blog which was first at www.bictt.com/blogs to blog.topqore.com. We did a move before at the same bictt address but to a different blog software (b2evolution to WordPress). So now we moved it to TopQore and created translation rules for the previous links to still … Read more

Webinar – How to Upgrade SCOM like a Champ!

April 28, 2020April 7, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

On Thursday 16 April 2020 at 4 PM CET (Amsterdam) we have hosted a webinar called “How to Upgrade SCOM like a Champ!”. See below how to register for the recording! Description: In this webinar we will talk you through the major points to plan for when doing a SCOM upgrade or side-by-side migration and … Read more

MMA agent not connecting to Log Analytics

April 27, 2020April 7, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

We had a server connected to Log Analytics workspace through the MMA agent and it had suffered a few hard power-downs. The machine went into fixing files on the disk and such in a checkdsk action. Maybe something got broken at that time. But we saw that it was no longer talking to Log Analytics … Read more

SCCM Agent Duplicate GUID issues and multiple computer Certificates.

March 23, 2022April 3, 2020 by Frank Wijten

More and more SCCM environments are using Certificate Client-Server authentication. And of course, you also want to use this to get your environment more secure. In the past ánd recently I ran up to a problem with deploying an application to some Windows servers. I tried to push a certain application to a specific server … Read more

New hotfix for SCOM 2019 UR1 for alert management

April 27, 2020April 2, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

Microsoft released a new hotfix yesterday for SCOM 2019. Specifically to handle a few items which appeared after some new features were released around alert management. The items in this fix: User will be able to edit columns on closed Alerts irrespective of Health State. Alerts can now be closed if the underlying Monitor’s Alerting … Read more

Update Rollup 9 for Microsoft System Center 2016 is released!

August 9, 2020March 25, 2020 by Martijn Weterings

For those who were not able to migrate to System Center 2019 yet, Microsoft has released the 9th Update Rollup for System Center 2016.

SCOM upgrade DAS service fails and update hangs

September 4, 2020March 24, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about a slow SCOM update rollup and it took so long because of agents being placed in Pending Management during the update and in big environment this might take a while. I will show you what it looks like below as well. Yesterday and today we … Read more