This blog post is part of the “Microsoft Operations Management Suite: Quickstart guide” which can be found here: http://scug.be/dieter/2015/05/08/microsoft-operations-management-suite-quickstart-guide/ It has been a while since i was been blown away by news about SCOM and monitoring in general. During the recent keynote of Ignite in Chicago however Microsoft delivered… I personally was surprised by the vast …
Read moreRecently I was asked by a customer to make a multi tenant SCOM setup with different environments. There are several ways of doing this with connected management groups and all but I opted to keep one management group and make the separation there as this was the best fit for the client. I’m not saying …
Read moreIt’s very strange how time flies by so quickly… It has already been a year since I received my first MVP title and just a week a go I noticed I was up for renewal again… Receiving the mail above always has something magical like new-year’s eve. A new year full of opportunities lies …
Read moreWow I can’t believe it has already been a year when I spoke at System Center Universe in Houston. And what a year it was! For me personally a lot of things have changed. System Center Universe 2014 was a great experience after winning the SCU Jedi contest in 2014 I got the possibility to …
Read moreDuring a recent project a client had a small request to create a monitor and run a command when a device was not accessible anymore. Easy right! But (yep there’s always a but) they wanted to run a command when the monitor was returning back to a healthy state to restart a service when the …
Read moreRecently I got a question of an engineer during a community event why SCOM didn’t notify him when SCOM was down. My first response was very similar to the response of my favorite captain below: But this got me thinking actually because the engineer made a good point. That to have a full monitoring you …
Read moreToday I ran into a situation where I had to test an advanced notification setup to send alerts to another helpdesk system. The notification channel activated a PowerShell script with parameters out of the alert to send data to the other system. After creating the notification channel there was no way to check whether …
Read moreAfter last years successful edition Expertslive is back on 18/11/2014! Identified as one of the most Microsoft centric events organized by the community in Holland this event will be packed with sessions regarding the Microsoft stack. Sessions will span the entire product group inlcuding Azure, System Center, Hyper-v, SQL Server, Windows Server, PowerShell and Office365. …
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