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SCOM 2012 – Encryption Key To Backup Or Not To Backup

Once in a time there comes the question about the encryption key in SCOM 2012 (SP1). Older SCOM administrators were used to backup their SCOM encryption key using the SecureStorageBackup.exe utility in SCOM 2007 R2. This encryption key is essential for restoring a SCOM 2007 R2 RMS server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540390.aspx The root management server encryption key […]

SMA – Migrating SMA Runbooks (SMART Toolkit) Annoying Confirmation

To migrate SMA runbooks from one environment to another you probably want to use SMA Runbook Toolkit to export and import the runbooks and assets, you can find the download here. This toolkit is a collection of PowerShell scripts which are few years old but still work perfectly with SMA 2016. After you downloaded the […]

SCSM 2016 / SCOM 2016 – SCOM 2016 Console Crashes After SCSM 2016 Console Installation

Have you ever installed System Center Service Manager 2016 and System Center Operations Manager 2016 console on the same system? Depending on the installation order, the SCOM console will crash with multiple errors like this… …and the console will appear empty or crash totally. We had the case, that the SCOM console was installed first […]