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SCOM 2012 – Microsoft Case Study

As a German motto is “Do good and talk about it!” In this post I will follow this motto. Last year I had a chance to realize a System Center Operations Manager 2012 project for a leading milk processor company located in Switzerland and certain parts of Europe. This project has been a very interesting […]

Azure Log Analytics – Get Data Types

In Azure Log Analytics you get to juggle with your data, turn and twist it the way you need to finally get your insights you want and need it. I just love Azure Log Analytics, there is so much to discover and once you started to explorer the language you figure out how much power […]

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 […]