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SCOM – Failed SCOM Agent Installation Error Code 80004005

Today I bumped into an issue, while deploying a SCOM 2012 SP1 agent to a Windows 2003 server. The task failed with the following error… In English it says that “The MOM Server could not execute WMI Query “Select * from Win32_Environment where NAME=’PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE’” on computer server.domain.com.” Error Code: 80004005. The server I wanted to […]

Microsoft MVP Award 2017

Yes I got it again, awesome! Today I received an e-mail from Microsoft, that I am re-awarded for another year as Most Valuable Professional (MVP). This is my 3rd year as an MVP and it still feels like –WOW! I got the award in the Cloud and Datacenter Management space for my expertise and community […]

SCOM – Part 1 Create Excel 2013 PowerView Dashboard

Last week I had to travel to China. So far, I haven’t had any experience with Asian countries nor culture, except of the local Chinese restaurant in Switzerland. What I learned, that there are different ways to visualize common scenarios and how important it is to make the visualization readable and understandable, also for foreigners. […]