Hello friends from the SCOM and monitoring community! I want to take this opportunity to call out a few leaning opportunity regarding both SCOM and also Cloud technologies, so bare with me. First of all, TopQore offers a range of SCOM certifications and trainings, from Operator to Administrator and soon Specialist. You can find the … Read more
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
If you are using SCOM MMA agents, and you have them connected to Azure Monitor Log Analytics, you will want to take a look at this. The SCOM agents used to use SSL V1 to connect up, and this older version of communication will be closed on 1 November 2022. Meaning that from that point … Read more
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
Hello SCOM enthusiasts. This is an announcement that we will be doing a webinar with our friends from SCOMathon about SCOM 2022 migration. On Tuesday 27 September at 4 PM CEST, we will be presenting a webinar for the SCOMathon Coffee Break sessions. The topic is going to be about SCOM 2022 Migration, for which … Read more
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
Hello all! Our friends at Silect are organizing another MP University again with a lot of SCOM content! On Wednesday 8 June at 8AM Eastern Time to 1 PM (14:00 to 19:00 in Europe), there will be several sessions by Aakash Basavaraj, Kevin Holman, Mike Sargent, the OpsLogix team and TopQore’s Bob Cornelissen! I will … Read more
Now that SCOM 2022 is released and available, it is a good time to discuss what is new in SCOM 2022 and what these changes look like. I am creating an overview here first and where the explanation needs to be more specific and extended, I will create separate pages for those items and link … 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
Last Friday we released an updated version of the Scheduled Tasks monitoring management pack for SCOM. The new version is 1.2.2.8 and can be found here: Release Release 1.2.2.8 · BCornelissen/SCOM-WinTaskSchedulerMP (github.com) The main fix in this MP was a bug which was brought to our attention, where the performance collection rule for Job Duration … Read more