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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.

Azure – Azure Mask

I really like to do presentations about the latest and greatest Microsoft Azure technology. One big security problem I always have is that e.g. Subscription ID, email addresses, keys etc. are visible on a big screen or visible in the session recordings afterwards. A very nice tool to hide such sensitive information is a browser […]

SCOM 2012 – Visio and SharePoint extensions

The Operations Manager team released the Visio and SharePoint extensions for System Center Operations Manager 2012 which can be used to visualize the state of system in a dynamic diagram. These diagrams can be displayed either in Visio or SharePoint. I will test them soon… These extensions can be found here.