Lately we regularly have chats with customers about SCOM as an application and the security measures it has. For example if TLS1.2 is supported, because customer wants to turn older versions off. Another example is question if agents are authenticated and if traffic is encrypted while in transit. Yesterday Bhavna Appayya from the SCOM product … 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
Important update 13/10/2020: Recently, the SQL 2019 CU7 update was taken offline due to several important issues. Although CU8 was released pretty much at the same time, there is no information to be found anymore about the support of SCOM 2019 for SQL 2019. After testing, it appeared that a clean installation of SCOM 2019 … 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
As promised in our previous blog, now we’re zooming in a bit more on the most interesting changes that are to be found in SCOM 2019 Update Rollup 2. Our colleague Frank Wijten thoroughly tested the beta version of UR2 and examined all the fun that came with it, before he left for holiday. Now … Read more
Last night System Center 2019 Update Rollup 2 was released. I blogged about the list of 5 products updated and their respective KB article pages here. This blog post will be specifically about SCOM though. What we always do first is go to the KB article and read what is new, what is fixed and … Read more
Yesterday we saw the release of System Center 2019 Update Rollup 2 for the following products: SCOM, SCDPM, SCVMM, SCSM, and SCORCH with fixes and improvements. Some have quite a long list of fixes and improvements, so in this post WILL FIRST place the pointers to the KB articles for those individual updates. System Center … 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