This is just a small but important message if you are in a migration or in a situation where you have multiple SCOM management groups of different versions. When you update the SCOM Console on your server or workstation to SCOM 2022 Console, you can not use it to connect to down-level SCOM management groups … Read more
In this series of blog posts about what is new in SCOM 2022 (or different), we discuss here the enhanced RBAC for Admin roles. What we and several of you found out is that within SCOM there are User Roles and Custom User Roles and you can create custom roles to grant scoped and limited … Read more
In SCOM 2022 there is now a change again to the options to closing an alert from an unhealthy monitor. Let me first give some background what is going on here. In SCOM 2012/2016, when we had alerts that we wanted to close, we could simply close them. This is alright for Rules. But for … Read more
Now that SCOM 2022 is released and available, it is a good time to discuss what is new in SCOM 2022 and what these changes look like. I am creating an overview here first and where the explanation needs to be more specific and extended, I will create separate pages for those items and link … Read more
Just a for your information from my side friends: A few of you have spotted this already. It is possible now to start evaluating System Center 2022 components from the Microsoft Evaluation Center. System Center 2022 | Microsoft Evaluation Center Over there you will find SCOM, SCVMM, SCSM, SCORCH 2022 downloads, so you can start … Read more
I just noticed a post by Blake Drumm, that he has released a tool to read/adjust the SCOM Datawarehouse grooming settings and wanted to share with you. As a SCOM Admin or a consultant installing/configuring SCOM or troubleshooting things, it is a good thing to check your database at a somewhat regular interval. Just to … Read more
While I am writing this, I have been a Microsoft MVP for 10 years now. I have been getting regular requests to write something about the MVP program and to answer some questions about it. I used to say, find some blog posts of others who have been a long time MVP and find your … Read more
Last Friday we released an updated version of the Scheduled Tasks monitoring management pack for SCOM. The new version is 1.2.2.8 and can be found here: Release Release 1.2.2.8 · BCornelissen/SCOM-WinTaskSchedulerMP (github.com) The main fix in this MP was a bug which was brought to our attention, where the performance collection rule for Job Duration … Read more
As many of you know, I have been trying to help people in the SCOM and monitoring communities by answering questions, writing blogs, books, webinars and all kinds of content to increase the use and effectiveness of monitoring environments anywhere in the world. Part of my work, both community and as a consultant has always … Read more
Hello all! We are closing off yet another interesting year at TopQore. Even though all of the pandemic stuff going on and difficult things, there was also a lot we could do and created. Just to mention a few things: SCOM Health Check SCOM Operator Training SCOM Administrator Training Webinars Working on Packs and examples … Read more