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
As many of you know, I have been trying to help people in the SCOM and monitoring communities by answering questions, writing blogs, books, webinars and all kinds of content to increase the use and effectiveness of monitoring environments anywhere in the world. Part of my work, both community and as a consultant has always … Read more
Hello all! We are closing off yet another interesting year at TopQore. Even though all of the pandemic stuff going on and difficult things, there was also a lot we could do and created. Just to mention a few things: SCOM Health Check SCOM Operator Training SCOM Administrator Training Webinars Working on Packs and examples … Read more
Hello SCOM friends! Silect is organizing another MP University event on Wednesday 27 October from 8AM to 1 PM ET. So a 5 hours event with several high profile speakers from the SCOM world! This event the focus is on management pack authoring. The speakers who are announced so far are: The Kevin Holman, A … Read more