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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. […]

Quick Post – Azure Updates & Roadmap

Knowing what’s new across all Azure services is a tough job if not almost impossible, BUT I bumped in a useful page called Azure Updates. It let’s you select a service and lists all major updates in a monthly order. In my opinion not all services are equally well maintained, but it gives you a […]

SCOM 2012 – Using Alert Custom Fields

In today’s world of monitoring it is not always easy for people from the service desk or even for administrators to identify from which system is this alert being sent, who is responsible for the system and maybe in a multitenant environment to which company belongs this system/alert. In my case a company which is hosting […]