A few days ago Microsoft released a KB article which explains how to add a product key to an evaluation version of SCOM 2012. It is a simple procedure. You can find the KB article here: How to add a product key to an eval version of System Center 2012…
Lately I have been working to tune a BizTalk 2010 management pack, because it was creating a lot of alerts whenever something went wrong (hundreds and sometimes thousands). I have found in the past with a BT 2006 MP that that one has the same behavior a…
So after playing around on test machines, I found it time to upgrade our (small) production DPM 2010 installation to DPM 2012. With the RTM bits of course. Yeah! We have a few domain controllers, Exchange servers, file shares, web servers, a SharePoint…
Yes, we have even more new downloads for System Center!
For a number of products the technical documentation has been made available for download.
Here is a list of links:
Operations Manager 2012 : http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?…
Got the message that the Operations Manager 2012 Sizing Helper Tool has been released on the first of April and that this is not a joke. 🙄 Have been using the SCOM 2007 sizing tool before, so now we can use the SCOM 2012 sizing tool as a reference.…
Yesterday a new version of the SQL management pack for SCOM was released. Yes we are now on a roll with releasing new stuff! The fresh version of the SQL mp is now 6.3.173.0.
The new version supports also monitoring of SQL 2012 now and will work for SC…
A few days ago a new Active Directory management pack was released for SCOM. It is now version 6.0.7822.0.
The changes in the version can be seen below as taken directly from the download page:
The AD management pack is generally a good MP and…
A few days ago I was playing around with auto installation of one of my favorite products, nworks 5.7, and ran into a small bug. nworks 5.7 has an installation guide with good guidance on how to use command lines to install the different components, suc…
I just noticed that I have been blogging for three years now. Around 265 posts until now.
The last few weeks have been a bit more quiet as I got swamped with work and some other things.
I will be picking up again these weeks and am looking forward to…
Was looking at a SCOM console with a lot of alerts today at a customer site. I did not feel like going through it all, so I wanted to clean out all alerts created by a rule, which had not been modified for at least 24 hours. This is because alerts comin…