Hmmm who knows Microsoft has a sense of humor or the page has been hacked but MVP Kenny Buntinx pointed me to the page of mms2012… http://www.mms-2012.com/ After a lot of rumors that MMS2013 was going to happen in New Orleans in the beginning of June this came up on the website: So if …
Read moreRecently I came across a customer who wanted to change the port of the Reporting server hosting the SCOM reporting services because they had no choice but to run the web console on port 80. To do this you need to make the necessary changes to: Reporting services Firewall Scom 1. Change Reporting services. …
Read moreI’m starting a small series (or a large series who knows) of all tips and tricks while configuring and using SCOM. Some of them are very obvious for the somewhat more experienced scom admins but then again they can be useful for the people who are just getting to know the sheer power of …
Read moreDuring my Masterclass last monday I showcased the different integration possibilities between the different system center products. One of the integrations I showcased was the integrations between SCVMM 2012 to SCOM2012. I followed all the different steps to get things up and running but when I wanted to test the actual PRO integration service …
Read moreWith the recent release of the new Microsoft Windows Server 2012 many questions were raised on how to monitor the environment with your current System Center Operations Manager environment. Well yesterday the official SCOM blog released a lot of answers to these questions in the community. Some were rather surprising others not really. In …
Read moreMissed my session at the Experience days last June? No fear I’ll rerun my session during a live meeting the 20th of September. It will be packed with demos of the new wave of authoring tools which will make your life much easier in maintaining, creating and upgrading your management packs in the SCOM …
Read moreIn my early days of monitoring we had a dedicated computer set up who read out all the critical alerts as for example a server was down. It was a fairly simple setup but had it’s flaws and it was not combined with System Center Operations Manager (which is already a big flaw). The idea …
Read moreToday I received a rather strange error message when I wanted to install a reporting server in an already existing OM 2012 environment. Symptoms: The install took ages and was running on “Creating SRS source” forever however it was still running. After 2 hours it gave an error and rolled back to the original …
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