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Azure Monitor – Application Insights Web Test Query Azure Resource Graph

Back in the good, old SCOM days, there was a thing called Global Service Monitor (GSM) which is still available. What was / is GSM? System Center Global Service Monitor is a cloud service that provides a simplified way to monitor the availability of external-web-based applications from multiple locations around the world. One of the […]

SCOM 2012 – Recovery Task Script for Restarting a Windows Service and Depending Services

A while ago there was an issue at a customers side where I had to provide a solution for restarting a Windows service depending on a Windows event log entry. Well this is nothing special and we SCOM guys do it almost every day. The fun part was, that it was a custom service and […]

Visio Management Pack Designer – “The dependencies for this management pack cannot be located”

This year Microsoft released the Visio Management Pack Designer (VMPD) a tool to design and create SCOM management packs using Visio. Basically it is a plug-in for Visio 2010 SP1 which adds management pack “stencils” and after the design process you are able to check for errors and then compile the “drawing” into a management […]