Hello community friends! You may have noticed that I was busy creating things in the background, meaning less posts here. But there is a lot to come in the near future. We have been working on some things, both for the blog and community (webinars), and our product offerings as a company. So hang on … Read more
Hello all! We are closing off yet another interesting year at TopQore. Even though all of the pandemic stuff going on and difficult things, there was also a lot we could do and created. Just to mention a few things: SCOM Health Check SCOM Operator Training SCOM Administrator Training Webinars Working on Packs and examples … Read more
This week Microsoft held its Ignite conference again with lots and lots of news and announcements as always. I wanted to do a post for the readers here about what was said about System Center. I might do another post about Windows Admin Center, since that is on the management space as well. But Let’s … Read more
When using Windows Admin Center to connect to servers, it can happen that a server pops up an error while connecting saying something like “The specified module ‘CimCmdLets’ was not loaded because no valid module file was found.” It happened to me with one of 2 identical servers, or which would be identical in theory … Read more
Microsoft released a security update for SCOM versions 2019 – 2016 – 2012R2 for the Web Console component. A vulnerability was found in the APM Websites connected to the SCOM Web Console that could lead to file access. The fix KB5006871 closes this vulnerability. The prerequisites before applying this patch is that you are on … Read more
Hello SCOM friends! Silect is organizing another MP University event on Wednesday 27 October from 8AM to 1 PM ET. So a 5 hours event with several high profile speakers from the SCOM world! This event the focus is on management pack authoring. The speakers who are announced so far are: The Kevin Holman, A … Read more
HackaSCOM 2021 combines a conventional hackathon with SCOM to bring together some of the greatest SCOM experts in a head-to-head 24-hour challenge. On 16 and 17 November 2021 there will be sessions to start and end the HackaSCOM and in the 24 hours in between several experts will be going nuts behind their keyboards creating some … Read more
Using SCOM or Azure to monitor or manage Linux/Unix systems? Read on! Recently a number of serious vulnerabilities have been found in the OMI Framework, which is used as underlying management infrastructure tooling for managing and monitoring Linux/Unix systems. Examples are the SCOM and Log Analytics agents for these systems in Azure and on-prem. And … Read more
When selecting the isolate users options as shown below in IIS there is an unwritten requirement to put all user folders under the FTP site root directory in a folder called “LocalUser”. This can cause issues, let me explain why… When enabling this setting it will lock users into a directory named as their username … Read more
This is a continuation of the blog post series about using Microsoft monitoring tools to monitor a Philips Hue Bridge as an example of how to monitor an API based device. To jump back to the first page of the series and the table of contents, click here. Getting access to Philips Hue Bridge … Read more