On the 3th of December the registration for MMS2013 opened. In spite of all the rumors and earlier announcements the venue is again held in Las Vegas from the 4th until the 12th of April. More info + registration link here: http://www.2013mms.com/register Early bird pricing saves you 300$ on the registration fee. Make sure …
Read moreI came across a post of Travis Wright who announced the “rebrand” of the System Center Team blog. The blog will be more technical because it is now maintained and updated by the engineering team instead of the marketing team. New items will include more technical content and cross System Center product collaboration options. …
Read moreOn the 22th of November I’m hosting a LiveMeeting on how to integrate the different System Center products. We’ll go over the different steps to integrate the different System Center products to get past the standard “just monitor it” scenario with SCOM but truly integrate the different products together. All the products will be …
Read moreLarry Rayl a senior consultant at Catapult Systems has created and posted a nice set of SCOM 2012 Visio Stencils creating the possibility to even further customize your SCOM 2012 Visio designs. There are some really specific Visio stencils in there which were not available out of the box in Visio or in the …
Read moreThis afternoon my colleague Alex Smits asked for pointers on a strange problem he faced when he wanted to install a SCOM 2012 reporting server on a previous SCOM 2007 reporting server for a side by side migration. As soon as he clicked the install button on the Scom 2012 install screen the following …
Read moreYesterday I had an issue at one of my clients with a server which was unable to check the task scheduler eventlog. The operations log was packed with different alerts but mostly with the infamous id 21406 which in fact can mean a lot of things. The exact message: VBScript runtime error: File name …
Read moreNOTE: This blogpost is part of a series of tips and tricks. You can find more tips and tricks on the central blogpost located here; http://scug.be/dieter/2012/10/07/scom-tips-and-tricks-series/ Just a small shortcut tip this time. As part of the unified console the shortcuts to the tabs in scom have been included in the SCOM 2012 console. …
Read moreToday the RU (Rollup) package 3 for System Center 2012 was released. Improvements for the different products in the suite included minor fixes for DPM / SCOM and SCSM. All the RU packages are cumulative so if you install RU3 the previous fixes are also included. An overview per product: Source the official mom …
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