SCOM Trick 4 – Learning SCOM

What can you do when you want to learn about SCOM? Well there are a lot of possibilities.
Read books about SCOM (see SCOM Trick 5)
Read the product documentation (see SCOM Trick 1)
Watch webcasts about SCOM
Watch the SCOM superflow. For mo…

SCOM Trick 3 – Where to ask questions

Once in a while you will have a question. Something will not work as expected. You discover a bug or SCOM does not react as expected. You might be looking for something special. Well first of all I would suggest to check out the official documentation a…

SCOM Trick 2 – Management Pack Guides

So what would be the first thing you do after installing SCOM or when you find a new management pack? For most that would be to load the management pack and see what happens. This is usually followed with a lot of alerts coming in and trying to find out…

SCOM Trick 1 – Product documentation

Alright, let’s face it… we are all IT people. So to generalize, we are stubborn and do not read manuals unless we are forced to. We install products and start clicking away. Until we hit a wall somewhere or we start complaining about something that is n…