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Quick Post – Mastering Windows Server 2012 R2 (Wiley/Sybex)

This post is very special and I am proud to announce that soon one of the first and currently most comprehensive books about the latest and greatest Windows Server server version Windows Server 2012 R2 will be released in December 2013. MVP Kevin Greene, Christian Booth, Robert Butler, John McCabe, Robert Panek, Michael Rice and […]

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 […]

SCOM – How Data is Encrypted

Recently I got a question from a customer how SCOM traffic is encrypted. Well, I knew that the traffic IS encrypted, but how the encryption works, that is a different story. First we need to know, about what traffic we are talking about. Is it the communication between agents , respectively healthservices? Is it the […]