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

The case of undiscovered SQL server roles in SCOM

Another case of a SCOM investigation we got involved in was about the SQL team trying to monitor SQL Analysis Services (SSAS) using SCOM. Management pack was installed, agent deployed, proxy enabled, runas accounts arranged, rights arranged for the runas account. And nothing found on those SQL servers. In the meantime this case was already … Read more

Azure Portal Issue or Your Internet is Poor

Hi All, As Bob is busy in meetings, webinar and other stuff so he asked me to write something for our new blog. I thought a lot and found, This time we should share something related to new Kid of MS. This is none other than….. yes, you are guessing pretty right here. We are talking about … Read more

Find Disconnected User on Servers using PowerShell Script SCOM Monitor

There are some slowness on Azure and On-premises servers. And as a part of CloudOps and DevOps team I again need to look into it, so given a promise to my server and application owner that I will work on it.   And found some curios and interesting facts in this case. Teams are accessing … Read more