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Microsoft MVP Award 2017

Yes I got it again, awesome! Today I received an e-mail from Microsoft, that I am re-awarded for another year as Most Valuable Professional (MVP). This is my 3rd year as an MVP and it still feels like –WOW! I got the award in the Cloud and Datacenter Management space for my expertise and community […]

SCSM – Adding Activities Using SMA / PowerShell Workflow

For the past couple of weeks I have been doing some automation stuff using Service Management Automation (SMA) and therefore PowerShell in conjunction with Service Manager. I like PowerShell very much, especially if I can interact with other systems. As you might know in the “old” days you would use Orchestrator and Service Manager to […]

SCOM 2012 Monitoring Cisco UCS – Part 2 Install UCS MP 2.5

In part 1 we build the foundation for monitoring by setting up the UCS emulator. In this part 2 we are going to install the UCS management pack version 2.5. On my SCOM 2012 management server I started the and this will fire up a wizard which we will see now…