New SCOM management pack for Certificate monitoring

SCOM monitoring evolves constantly, sometimes through versions and features of the product and sometimes through the Management Packs. Today I want to talk about monitoring certificates and CRL’s for Windows servers and PKI. For years this was covered through a community management pack created by Raphael Burri and is maintained on Github over here. I … Read more

New Microsoft Learn experience

A few days ago, Microsoft announced changes to the docs and learning experience. As you know I am a big advocate for continued learning and for connecting with the community. If you go to Learn.microsoft.com you will see the combined experience, between learning and certifications, Q&A forums, Documentation, Showcasing, Examples and more: Note: Picture taken … Read more

System Center 2019 Update Rollup 4 released

Last night UR4 was released for System Center 2019. This includes patches for SCOM, SCSM, SCDPM and SCVMM. These updates add supportability for Windows 2022 and 11 (on guest/agent side), .Net Framework 4.8, some security fixes, some bug fixes and some UI improvements. See the article by the Product Group here: System Center Update Rollup … Read more

SCOM versions Poll

Hello my monitoring friends, I am doing a quick 1-question poll. What version(s) of SCOM are you currently using in production? https://forms.office.com/r/m34zpibxCw It is anonymous, multiple selections are possible if you run multiple versions. The picture below takes you to this link as well. I am asking this as preparation for a webinar. Much appreciated … Read more