Had a strange case today. On some servers in a DMZ we wanted to upgrade the existing SCOM 2007 R2 agents to SCOM 2012 SP1. However something strange happened during upgrade and somehow it looked like both the old agent and the new agent were installed,…
As many of you know the last version of the SharePoint 2013 management pack had an issue with its reports. They couldn’t be published to the report server and thus caused the health state of the management server to turn to a red state. Yesterday an upd…
Last week I installed a SCOM agent on a Windows 2008 R2 print server, only to discover that the SCOM agent went wild and kept crashing. Furthermore I found out it was generating a lot of data (about 18 milion entries in a few hours). So what had happene…
According to a post from Brad Anderson the release date for several products will all be the same: 18 October 2013.
These are of course Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1, SYstem Center 2012 R2 as main components.
Because these products were develope…
Microsoft published a new KB article. This is for the combination of VMM 2012 and SCOM 2012 and running PRO mp’s. It can happen that the resulting groups contain CHinese characters. This can occur due to a missing languagecode in the SCOM database. The…
Last night Microsoft released UR3 for System Center 2012 SP1. This covers at least a few products according to the page where the UR3 is explained over here.
For now it says App Controller and DPM and SCOM and VMM in this KB article.
Not all update…
I saw that last night Microsoft released Update Rollup 4 for System Center Advisor for download and to WSUS.
The KB article explains where to get it (I already hinted that also WSUS gives this one) and what is contained.
From the KB article:
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A few days ago Microsoft released the BizTalk 2013 management pack into the wild with version 7.0.1033.0
It can be found and downloaded from this page.
So of course this is a fresh pack to monitor BizTalk Server 2013 with. At the basis was the Bi…
A few days ago Microsoft released the a newer version (7.0.391.0) of its BizTalk 2010 management pack. The pack can be downloaded from this page.
Basically it seems to address a known issue with a discovery to be able to handle a large amount of BizT…
An interesting link showed up in the Microsoft Downloads page. Seems like our SCOM 2012 environments will be more than ready for the upcoming R2 of Server 2012. Microsoft has just released MPs for the all the major infrastructure components in R2 like A…