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SCOM 2012 – Fun Jukebox Dashboard With PowerShell Widgets

I am currently experimenting with the PowerShell widgets and trying to figure out what you can do and what you cannot do. My funny idea was to create a Jukebox dashboard where you can select a song and PowerShell will play it using the “beep sounds”. Yes I know SCOM is a monitoring tool but […]

Quick Post – Documenting Setups & Installations Smartly

I am a big fan of smart solutions and approaches. Today I had one of these moments which I really liked. I was going to update a SCOM 2012 environment to SCOM 2012 SP1. Because the customer only had Thin Clients, which basically only provide an RDP client, it was somewhat limited with tools available. […]

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 […]