While trying to remove some management packs from SCOM we found a problem where for a few packs it would give a timeout after an hour of looking at a SCOM console saying Busy… at the bottom of the screen. In this case we were swapping out the older SQL packs of 7.0.7.0 version with … Read more
Hello all followers of this blog. Starting yesterday we moved the blog which was first at www.bictt.com/blogs to blog.topqore.com. We did a move before at the same bictt address but to a different blog software (b2evolution to WordPress). So now we moved it to TopQore and created translation rules for the previous links to still … Read more
On Thursday 16 April 2020 at 4 PM CET (Amsterdam) we have hosted a webinar called “How to Upgrade SCOM like a Champ!”. See below how to register for the recording! Description: In this webinar we will talk you through the major points to plan for when doing a SCOM upgrade or side-by-side migration and … Read more
We had a server connected to Log Analytics workspace through the MMA agent and it had suffered a few hard power-downs. The machine went into fixing files on the disk and such in a checkdsk action. Maybe something got broken at that time. But we saw that it was no longer talking to Log Analytics … Read more
More and more SCCM environments are using Certificate Client-Server authentication. And of course, you also want to use this to get your environment more secure. In the past ánd recently I ran up to a problem with deploying an application to some Windows servers. I tried to push a certain application to a specific server … Read more
Microsoft released a new hotfix yesterday for SCOM 2019. Specifically to handle a few items which appeared after some new features were released around alert management. The items in this fix: User will be able to edit columns on closed Alerts irrespective of Health State. Alerts can now be closed if the underlying Monitor’s Alerting … Read more
For those who were not able to migrate to System Center 2019 yet, Microsoft has released the 9th Update Rollup for System Center 2016.
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about a slow SCOM update rollup and it took so long because of agents being placed in Pending Management during the update and in big environment this might take a while. I will show you what it looks like below as well. Yesterday and today we … Read more
This is an article written by our friend Stoyan Chalakov. We found out a few months ago we had been researching the same strange installation issues of SCOM at customers of ours. We discussed that researching and finding the solution took a long while, because you need to find the exact issue keywords. So it … Read more
On 26 March 2020 at 15:00 CET (Amsterdam time) we hosted a webinar titled “Monitoring in a Hybrid World” with as speaker… Bob Cornelissen. I have been getting a lot of questions the last year about monitoring in a hybrid world as I would call it. Questions such as… Can I monitor Cloud resources and … Read more