System Center 2016 Update Rollup 8 available

As the title says the new updates for System Center 2016 products has been released as UR8. You can find the KB Articles for each of the products below. Of course I will list the one for SCOM first. Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2016 Operations Managerhttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4514877/update-rollup-8-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2016 … Read more

TopQore India Blog Writing Contest results

A few months ago for ExpertsLive India we organised a little blog writing contest, where the winner would receive a prize in Amazon gift cards. This was for the attendees of ExpertsLive India. The received posts have been evaluated and the winner has been declared by a jury lead by John Barreto (MVP): Our winner … Read more

SCOM 2016 UR7 released

A few hours ago SCOM 2016 UR7 was released at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4492182/update-rollup-7-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager The main list of fixes is: Fixed: Cannot use SQLOleDB.dll to probe databases like Oracle/MySQL. Improved the performance of SCOM console in listing the groups. Operations Manager grooms out the alert history only on an alert closure. Agents by Health State report shows duplicate … Read more

System Center 2016 Update Rollup 7 is released

A few hours ago the System Center 2016 Update Rollup 7 was released. It contains updates for DPM SCOM Orchestrator Service Manager SMA VMM You can find the links to the specific articles for each product here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4496928/description-of-update-rollup-7-for-microsoft-system-center-2016

Export SCOM Subscriptions using Powershell

Today another guest blog. This time by my friend Sameer Mhaisekar from India. Introduction:  It is often required to be able to look at all your subscriptions and how they’re all tangled together with subscribers and channels, especially when you’ve inherited a SCOM management Group from someone else and you’re trying to explore the environment. … Read more

Monitor Azure Backup with Log Analytics

Note: This is an entry for the TopQore Blog Wiriting contest for ExpertsLive India. It is written by Gourav Kumar from India. Introduction In this blog post we will explore how to monitor Azure long running backup and trigger an alert on them with the help of Log Analytics. Before going to start, I like … Read more

What is an Application Centric Network?

Note: This is an entry for the TopQore Blog Wiriting contest for ExpertsLive India. It is written by Mohammed Ziaurrahman from Hyderabad in India. Introduction An application network is a way to connect applications, data, and devices to utilize some or all of the assets and data on the network. Instead of utilizing point-to-point connections or … Read more