Since years I have been using the PKI Certificates MP made by Raphael Burri to monitor certificates on servers with SCOM agents. Most often my customers use the basic functionality of the pack, being the certificates in the personal store of the computer itself. Most of the time we find certificates with issues, such as … Read more
The new version of the SQL management pack for SCOM has become available at the close of the year. Thank you for the present! The new version agnostic pack has version 7.0.20.0 and is compatible with SQL 2019 as well. So it covers SQL versions from 2012 and up without the need to create overrides … Read more
After proudly presenting a non-functional reporting environment in my own home lab while giving SCOM training at a client, it was time to examine what exactly was going wrong. The next time I’d like to show my audience the usefulness of certain reports. Let’s face it – certain reports are irreplaceable if you want to … Read more
We ran into a problem a few days ago while turning on encryption for SQL for a SQL cluster. After turning on encryption for the server we had to restart the SQL service for the database engine. And it failed to start with some strange message. A reboot failed to help. SO we started to … Read more
If you have been using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) for SCOM, the last situation was that the VSAE were supported up to Visual Studio 2017. Now since a few days there is a new download link where we can see that Visual Studio 2019 is now also supported with the new version of … Read more
As the title says the new updates for System Center 2016 products has been released as UR8. You can find the KB Articles for each of the products below. Of course I will list the one for SCOM first. Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2016 Operations Managerhttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4514877/update-rollup-8-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2016 … Read more
Silect has posted the recording of the latest set of MP University sessions from May 2019. This is a link to Bob Cornelissen session on Migrating to SCOM 2019! Since there were a lot of questions from this and a previous session and there was break-time left we took a lot of time to answer … Read more
On Wednesday 29 May 2019 Silect will host another SCOM MP University day filled with monitoring goodness! This will be between 10 AM and 5 PM CEST. It will be recorded and broadcast again on 5 June 2019 from 9 AM to 4 PM EDT. This has always been a great day of monitoring goodness … Read more
Today another guest blog. This time by my friend Sameer Mhaisekar from India. Introduction: It is often required to be able to look at all your subscriptions and how they’re all tangled together with subscribers and channels, especially when you’ve inherited a SCOM management Group from someone else and you’re trying to explore the environment. … Read more
For the ExpertsLive India event we at TopQore opened up a blog writing contest for all registered attendants to participate in a blog writing contest. The winner will be chosen by a jury headed by CDM MVP John Barreto and awarded with two Amazon India gift cards! This is a fun opportunity to take a … Read more