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Posted on Author stefanroth
I am sure you have a small SCOM infrastructure containing 2 management servers and probably 1 SQL server. If you and your colleagues deploy SCOM agents on a daily basis it can easily happen that not all management servers receive the equal amount of agents. Maybe management server 1 has 300 agents to monitor and […]
SCOM 2012 Maintenance Mode Script – Computer maintenance mode depending on SCCM 2012 collection membership
Posted on Author stefanroth
Maintenance mode is always something you are facing during System Center setups. Let’s say you have a SCCM administrator who want’s to deploy it’s Windows updates on a certain day e.g. Tuesday @ 08.00 p.m. o’clock, and he also decides to reboot each server forcefully after successful deployment. Because we (SCOM administrators) have to find […]
SCOM 2012 – Encryption Key To Backup Or Not To Backup
Posted on Author stefanroth
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