Hello SCOM community friends. We would like to know what versions of SCOM you are running in Production. This is also a research for the upcoming SCOMathon session in June (will blog separately). We would love to get an idea of numbers of SCOM versions running in your environments. We have posted a poll on … Read more
In the second week of December is the SCOMathon Workshop week. Every day for 5 days there will be a different workshop topic. This is from 7 December to 11 December. We at TopQore have the Tuesday 8 December scheduled and our topics are: Reporting Basics (not writing custom ones with SQL code, that is … Read more
A few weeks ago System Center 2016 Update Rollup 10 was released, but with a short delay on the SCOM update UR10. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4581612/description-of-update-rollup-10-for-microsoft-system-center-2016 Today the SCOM 2016 UR10 has been released as well. Let’s have a look at what fixes it mainly contains, and below you will find the relevant link to the page: … Read more
On Thursday 29 October 2020 at 04:00 pm CET we will host a webinar called “Skyrocket the performance of your SCOM environment” We asked our good friend Stoyan Chalakov and fellow MVP to talk about the methods and tricks to make the SCOM infrastructure perform much better. Stoyan and Bob will take turns chatting about … Read more
On Thursday 10 September 2020 at 04:00 pm CET we will host a webinar called “Automate your SCOM Environment” We asked our good friend Michael Seidl from Au2mator and fellow Microsoft MVP to talk about the combination of automation and SCOM. Of course what he talks about applies to many other products as well in … Read more
A few weeks ago we created a blog post series about SCOM Reporting. Today we are announcing availability of a free eBook about SCOM Reporting based on that series and some additions in technical content that we have created for you. The book contains all the basic information you need to know to start using … Read more
We are announcing that we will do a webinar about “SCOM Reporting Essentials” on Thursday 20 August 2020 at 4 PM CET (Amsterdam time). The webinar will be presented by Bob Cornelissen and Martijn Weterings. You can register for the webinar through https://topqore.com/webinars/scom-reporting-essentials-webinar/ Title: SCOM Reporting Essentials When: Thursday 20 August at 4 PM CET (Amsterdam time) Who: … Read more
On Tuesday 02 June 2020 at 04:00 pm CET we will host a webinar called “WMUG NL Tuesdays – Monitoring in a Hybrid World” Together with the user group WMUG NL (Windows Management User Group Netherlands) we are presenting one of their WMUG NL Tuesdays sessions as a webinar open to anybody. Bob is also involved … Read more
Lately there has been a lot of effort by Microsoft in getting Microsoft Q&A ready for production for all products. This is the new platform for the old forums lets say (TechNet and MSDN). Now there s also something on TechNet called the Gallery, where we placed scripts and packs and other stuff created throughout … Read more
While trying to remove some management packs from SCOM we found a problem where for a few packs it would give a timeout after an hour of looking at a SCOM console saying Busy… at the bottom of the screen. In this case we were swapping out the older SQL packs of 7.0.7.0 version with … Read more