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SCOM 2012 – Discovery Wizard running forever again

In this post here on possible cause why the discovery wizard could run forever. Last week I faced a situation where the discovery wizard for deploying Linux agents and for deploying windows agents didn’t work. The setup topology was 2 management servers SCOM 2012 and one dedicated SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 for the SCOM databases.

Quick Post – Azure Updates & Roadmap

Knowing what’s new across all Azure services is a tough job if not almost impossible, BUT I bumped in a useful page called Azure Updates. It let’s you select a service and lists all major updates in a monthly order. In my opinion not all services are equally well maintained, but it gives you a […]

SCSM – Get Service Request Object From Any Nested Child Runbook Activity

When you are starting to automate stuff in your cloud environment you probably use SMA for automation and Service Manager to trigger the necessary runbooks in SMA. As this is really great stuff you will start facing many new challenges because you have to script in PowerShell to achieve your goals. Depending on your architecture […]