SCOM monitoring the Configuration Service

Thanks to Marnix Wolf for posting about the new SCOM R2 core management pack 6.1.7595.0 and that it has an important monitor turned off by default. You should turn this monitor on in order to monitor the service and if needed restart it as suggested by M…

Quick Guide to SCOM – the 101 guide

Today I will re-blog some usefull stuff that I came across and that I want to remember B)
So lets start with this one:
Two SCOM premier field engineer guys wrote a SCOM 101 guide with a lot of good information for starting SCOM admins.
A table fo…

Put agents back to Remotely Manageable – 2007 R2

When you have a update -in my case CU3- you have to upgrade your agents. Only the agents which are flagged as Remotely Manageable will show up in your Pending view to upgrade the agents.So how to upgrade those agents?Well first change your view s…

New SCOM Core MP 6.1.7695.0 released

Great news… the new version of the SCOM Core MPs have been released at version 6.1.7695.0
I really like the parts where we get a report where we can report agent state (and including the grey state!). We now get alerted if an alert subscription is f…

SCOM console error could not load type from assembly

This is an older error that still keeps popping up at several customers of mine because of catching up patch cycles. I just thought I would re-blog this one again as I see it more often.
What happens:
When openening the SCOM console it tries to conne…