TopQore Blog - Part 2

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.

April 27, 2020April 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!

April 27, 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

April 27, 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

System Center 2019 Operations Manager (SCOM) installation routine and the unsecure Kerberos encryption

April 27, 2020March 15, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

This is an article written by our friend Stoyan Chalakov. We found out a few months ago we had been researching the same strange installation issues of SCOM at customers of ours. We discussed that researching and finding the solution took a long while, because you need to find the exact issue keywords. So it … Read more

Webinar Monitoring in a Hybrid World 26 March

April 28, 2020March 4, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

On 26 March 2020 at 15:00 CET (Amsterdam time) we hosted a webinar titled “Monitoring in a Hybrid World” with as speaker… Bob Cornelissen. I have been getting a lot of questions the last year about monitoring in a hybrid world as I would call it. Questions such as… Can I monitor Cloud resources and … Read more

What if a SCOM Update Rollup is very slow

April 27, 2020February 28, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

Had an interesting case today where we were implementing Update Rollup 8 for SCOM 2016 on a management server and it took very long. It took so long that we decided to kill it and start it again. And again it seemed to hang. So reboot and try again. We had difficulty finding the … Read more

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