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SCOM 2012 SP1 – “Unable to Proceed” Troubleshooting Upgrade Error

As I already have learned in many ways – Don’t assume anything, proof it! Another rule is – What you see is not always what you get. With those two quotes in mind we have to start troubleshooting in IT. Today I spent quite some time troubleshooting an SCOM SP1 upgrade installation. I wanted to […]

SCOM 2012 SP1 – Part 3: Audit Collection Services (ACS) Testing Cross Platform Logging

In part 1 and part 2 we installed ACS for collection Windows and Linux events. In part 3 I am going to show how the cross platform ACS works in an easy example. In part 2 we had a close look at a specific rule called Delete User. I think this is a perfect example […]

SCSM – Get Service Request Object From Any Nested Child Runbook Activity

When you are starting to automate stuff in your cloud environment you probably use SMA for automation and Service Manager to trigger the necessary runbooks in SMA. As this is really great stuff you will start facing many new challenges because you have to script in PowerShell to achieve your goals. Depending on your architecture […]