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
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
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
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
Today another guest blog. This time by my friend Sameer Mhaisekar from India. Introduction: It is often required to be able to look at all your subscriptions and how they’re all tangled together with subscribers and channels, especially when you’ve inherited a SCOM management Group from someone else and you’re trying to explore the environment. … Read more
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
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
There are some slowness on Azure and On-premises servers. And as a part of CloudOps and DevOps team I again need to look into it, so given a promise to my server and application owner that I will work on it. And found some curios and interesting facts in this case. Teams are accessing … Read more
As stated in my previous post System Center 2016 products (SCOM, DPM, VMM, Orch) came with SCOM Update Rollup 6. For SCOM this means a number of things got fixed, See the excerpt from the KB article below: Improvements and issues that are fixed Application pool crashes and SharePoint application crashes because of APM agent … Read more
A few days ago System Center 2016 Update Rollup 6 was released. The products receiving UR6 are: SCOM, DPM, VMM, Orchestrator. The link below has the links to all 4 product UR6 pages: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4469613/description-of-update-rollup-6-for-microsoft-system-center-2016 I will make a separate post about the SCOM specific update. Bob Cornelissen