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SCOM 2012 – Discovery Wizard running forever

I experienced in a relatively small environment that the Discovery Wizard in SCOM 2012 is running forever. I rejected some pending agents which were discovered properly but stayed in a “Installation in progress” state. After I rejected these agents and wanted to re-discover these servers the Discovery Wizard kept runnig forever.

SCOM 2012 – Encryption Key To Backup Or Not To Backup

Once in a time there comes the question about the encryption key in SCOM 2012 (SP1). Older SCOM administrators were used to backup their SCOM encryption key using the SecureStorageBackup.exe utility in SCOM 2007 R2. This encryption key is essential for restoring a SCOM 2007 R2 RMS server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540390.aspx The root management server encryption key […]

SCOM 2012 SP1 – Publish Visio Dashboard in SharePoint 2010 Walkthrough

There are many posts including TechNet article about publishing Visio dashboards in SharePoint 2010 using the Microsoft Visio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Extensions for System Center 2012 . I found most of these article have a lack of information either the posts are for SCOM 2007 R2 or they do not cover the SharePoint side […]