After reading a lot about Azure Stack HCI, and comparing the two flavors (Windows Server HCI vs Azure Stack HCI), I think it is about time we get some dirt on our hands. That’s right, it is time to spin up our own Azure Stack HCI lab and see it in action! I found this tutorial in the official … Read more
System Center 2022 UR1 was recently released, and it comes with a lot of issues fixed. As an enhancement, it also ties with another big announcement in the SCOM space in recent days, the SCOM MI. This release allows you to discover Azure Monitor SCOM MI (read more about that here) from the console. This … Read more
Microsoft released Windows Admin Center (WAC) 2211 yesterday as Generally Available. There is of course a lot of good stuff included again in the areas of the platform itself, Azure Stack HCI management, WAC in Azure etc. A good list of all the good new stuff can be found on the following page: Windows Admin … Read more
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) has been around for many years as you all know. In most cases this runs in a datacenter and monitors your datacenter resources, such as infrastructure, servers and applications. The last few years more companies have been adopting cloud and hybrid workloads as well as datacenter workloads. We have … Read more
Looking to transform your data center into more modern, easy to manage and cloud-driven infrastructure? Well, first of all – congratulations! You’re on the right path 😀 – Azure Stack HCI is probably the hottest cake in the hybrid cloud market right now. If you’re planning to move onto Azure Stack HCI but not sure … Read more
We occasionally get questions from the community about monitoring mountpoints. Either for Exchange mount points or SQL servers with mount points. Lately I saw one for Exchange Mount Points and SCOM. Now, the thing is that Exchange has a lot of built-in monitoring scripts whether you use a monitoring product such as SCOM or not. … Read more
Hi all. After encountering some problems at a location with the installation and running of SCOM, which was related to SQL Authentication settings, it is time to write up a blog post about it. I also have a bit of information about what happens if you do not set this up right. Theory In the … Read more
Hello friends from the SCOM and monitoring community! I want to take this opportunity to call out a few leaning opportunity regarding both SCOM and also Cloud technologies, so bare with me. First of all, TopQore offers a range of SCOM certifications and trainings, from Operator to Administrator and soon Specialist. You can find the … Read more
SCOM monitoring evolves constantly, sometimes through versions and features of the product and sometimes through the Management Packs. Today I want to talk about monitoring certificates and CRL’s for Windows servers and PKI. For years this was covered through a community management pack created by Raphael Burri and is maintained on Github over here. I … Read more
If you are using SCOM MMA agents, and you have them connected to Azure Monitor Log Analytics, you will want to take a look at this. The SCOM agents used to use SSL V1 to connect up, and this older version of communication will be closed on 1 November 2022. Meaning that from that point … Read more