In this blog post I am writing about the rights a Delegated SCOM Admin has versus the Full SCOM Admin. It started out as a question from one of my long time customers, who are looking to use SCOM 2022 and the Delegated Admin role to narrow down the rights of daily SCOM Admins 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
Microsoft released a security update for SCOM versions 2019 – 2016 – 2012R2 for the Web Console component. A vulnerability was found in the APM Websites connected to the SCOM Web Console that could lead to file access. The fix KB5006871 closes this vulnerability. The prerequisites before applying this patch is that you are on … Read more
Often it can be useful for other teams and departments to edit and run their own Azure automation runbooks, however, this creates a challenge – permissions. Runbooks live and are managed from within Azure Automation accounts which are in turn connected to log analytics workspaces and their associated agents. Both automation accounts and log analytics … Read more
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
Recently I was tasked with setting up an Active Directory environment as the Radius authentication backend for a VPN solution, allowing users in the correct AD group to access the VPN using their AD credentials. Sounds easy enough….. right? Well, then this wouldn’t be a good read would it 🙂 It seems the built-in Windows … Read more
On Thursday 14 May 2020 at 04:00 pm CET we will host a webinar called “Windows 2019 Hardening” This webinar will be in collaboration with Calcom Software, who have a lot of expertise in server hardening in large environments. This webinar will be held at 14 May 2020 at 4PM CET. (Amsterdam time zone) Title: Windows 2019 Hardening: … Read more