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5 Trends impacting cloud technologies adoption

There are a host of trends impacting the cloud market at the moment, and understanding them will give you a better idea not only about industry growth and spending going forwards, but also about how it is necessary to remove the barriers that are still preventing some organizations from adopting. [Image Source: Pixabay] Performance optimization […]

SCOM – Exchange 2010 MP “extest_” User (?)

Have you ever installed the Exchange 2010 management pack? If you follow the management pack guide there will be a section where you can enable the synthetic transaction tests for the Exchange. Those synthetic transactions will perform several tests on your Exchange infrastructure and warn you if there is a problem with your mail flow. […]

SCOM 2012 – Linux Discovery “Unspecified failure”

Today I had a very interesting error for troubleshooting. A customer has about 150 Linux servers which he wants to monitor using SCOM 2012. The customer could deploy all Linux agents except for 4 Linux servers. After each attempt to discover one of these troublesome servers the discovery wizard ended shortly after the starting with […]