How to Avoid SCOM Monitor Duplication After In-Place OS Upgrade
When in-place upgrading Windows Server 2012 Server to a newer version, SCOM agents can encounter a common issue: duplicate monitors for logical disks and IIS components.
Windows 2012
IIS FTP Home Directory Isolation Using Symbolic Links
When selecting the isolate users options as shown below in IIS there is an unwritten requirement to put all user folders under the FTP site root directory in a folder called “LocalUser”. This can cause…
Windows Server Homefolder Permission Fix
Here is another blog post by Mike Hosker and this time about home folder permissions.
Often in large active directory environments administrators will redirect users data to a share on the network commonly referred…
Windows 2008 and Windows 7 out of support
Since yesterday Windows 7 and Windows 2008 (and R2 and R2 SP1) went out of Extended support (If you even had that…).
To be honest, we had a good run with those operating systems…
The case of undiscovered SQL server roles in SCOM
Another case of a SCOM investigation we got involved in was about the SQL team trying to monitor SQL Analysis Services (SSAS) using SCOM. Management pack was installed, agent deployed, proxy enabled, runas accounts arranged,…
A case of ghost objects in SCOM
At a customer of ours we were investigating a case where an old SCCM server which was removed a while ago kept getting back into SCOM.
What we saw was a server object which…
Find Disconnected User on Servers using PowerShell Script SCOM Monitor
There are some slowness on Azure and On-premises servers. And as a part of CloudOps and DevOps team I again need to look into it, so given a promise to my server and application owner…
New version of DHCP management packs
New versions of the DHCP management packs for DHCP 2016 and DHCP 2012 and 2012 R2 were released earlier.
There are a number of fixes implemented.
The 2016 version can be found here:
STOP 0x00000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA on a Windows 2008 server
I was working with an old Windows 2008 R2 server last night. It needed a “few” updates!
So I will first admit to several of my own mistakes. I did not give myself time to update this machine regularly enough in the past and of course we always have to…
WSUS Console not able to connect Handshake failed
Last week I installed a fresh WSUS server for a customer of mine and because it needed to download lots of files after the approvals were done we left it for a few days. Today I came in and opened the WSUS console only to notice it refused to connect. G…