I regularly get questions about service monitoring for custom services or just for services of applications where they do not want to implement full management packs. In almost every case there are different prerequisites in the question. Most of the ti…
Timothy McFadden published another tool to compliment your SCOM toolbox. It is the Subscriptions copier. And it is used to – uhm – copy subscriptions!
So how can this be usefull? Well in many cases subscriptions are not always that easy (like the sen…
The other day we saw another error on the SCOM RMS that looked familiar in some way, but of course I had lost the links to the KB articles. So what happens?
We see these alerts coming from the event log and reflected in SCOM alerts:
Data Warehouse…
Because of questions from two customers about high availability for Hyper-V virtual machines and NOT similar hardware between the hosts I was clicking around and found an interesting checking tool for processor compatibility for hosts that you want to a…
Re-blogging the announcement as is:
Today we are pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. Ideal as a first server for small businesses with up to 25 users, Windows Small Business…
Got a few emails about Release candidates this weekend. One of them is for the new Home Server 2011 RC.
Will paste the info as is:
Today we are pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate for Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 (f…
Hi guys and girls. it has been a busy week for me last week and I didn’t feel like blogging last weekend 🙂 So now some catching up to do!
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cumulative Update 4 (SCOM CU4) has been released last week. It contains…
At a customer i saw thousands warning events on many systems. ID is 4098. Source is Group Policy Printers. I use a GPP to set the printers on the domain.
The message is: The computer ‘Comp_IP’ preference item in the ‘GPO_string&GUID’ Group Policy…
I almost feel stupid to say but i never fully understood how this really works. I read many articles and examples but still i never got the picture.
Until i read a blog of Kudrat Sapaev where it is easy and crystal clear explained!
The blog can be…
At one of my customers I accidentally came across a machine that was not running its dicovery of the Exchange 2003 role correctly. I was actually looking for something else and had to connect to the mail server and because I did not remember its name I…