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Posted on Author stefanroth
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Posted on Author stefanroth
When System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 was released, the SCOM agent name changed to Microsoft Monitoring Agent. Almost at the same time Microsoft released a standalone version of this agent called also Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA). Currently is a preview version of Microsoft Monitoring Agent UR1 available for download. But what does that mean […]
SCOM 2012 – Encryption Key To Backup Or Not To Backup
Posted on Author stefanroth
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