SCOM 2016 | TopQore Blog- Part 2

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

Update Rollup 9 for Microsoft System Center 2016 is released!

August 9, 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

September 4, 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

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

New System Center Visual Studio Authoring Extensions available

April 27, 2020November 28, 2019 by Bob Cornelissen

If you have been using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) for SCOM, the last situation was that the VSAE were supported up to Visual Studio 2017. Now since a few days there is a new download link where we can see that Visual Studio 2019 is now also supported with the new version of … Read more

System Center 2016 Update Rollup 8 available

September 25, 2019 by Bob Cornelissen

As the title says the new updates for System Center 2016 products has been released as UR8. You can find the KB Articles for each of the products below. Of course I will list the one for SCOM first. Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2016 Operations Managerhttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4514877/update-rollup-8-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2016 … Read more

Recording MP University Upgrading SCOM session

June 19, 2020July 17, 2019 by Bob Cornelissen

Silect has posted the recording of the latest set of MP University sessions from May 2019. This is a link to Bob Cornelissen session on Migrating to SCOM 2019! Since there were a lot of questions from this and a previous session and there was break-time left we took a lot of time to answer … Read more

The case of undiscovered SQL server roles in SCOM

December 18, 2018 by Bob Cornelissen

Another case of a SCOM investigation we got involved in was about the SQL team trying to monitor SQL Analysis Services (SSAS) using SCOM. Management pack was installed, agent deployed, proxy enabled, runas accounts arranged, rights arranged for the runas account. And nothing found on those SQL servers. In the meantime this case was already … Read more

A case of ghost objects in SCOM

December 7, 2018 by Bob Cornelissen

At a customer of ours we were investigating a case where an old SCCM server which was removed a while ago kept getting back into SCOM. What we saw was a server object which was not an agent. Upon investigation we found these were instances of an SCCM roles, such as a distribution point. So … Read more

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