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SCOM 2012 – Event ID 20070 Agent Across Slow WAN Links

Since a few weeks I am having a problem with SCOM agents in child domains. I am currently implementing SCOM for an international company which has branch offices in China, US, Germany, Switzerland and other countries. The Active Directory topology has a root domain and for each country a separate child domain. In some of […]

Quick Post – Visio 2013 Stencils Bluish Single-Colored

Today I had some conceptual work to do and as this always involves some fancy Visio diagrams, I ran into a problem which might also could happen to you. Microsoft has released  great Windows Server 2012 / Office 365 stencils for Visio 2013. You can find them here. As soon you start Visio and import […]

SMA – Runbooks Not Showing Up (e.g. Cireson SMA Connector)

My colleague and I have been developing runbooks for the past couple of month for automating business services. During this time we have written close to two hundred runbooks. Key application in triggering the runbooks is System Center Service Manager (SCSM) in conjunction with Cireson’s SMA Connector. This works great up to the past month […]