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SCOM 2012 – Check DNS Servers And DNS Records / IP MP

In today’s world of IT everything is still heavily depending on DNS. It can be the most sophisticated application / technology if DNS does not work all other parts also won’t work. SCOM offers a good DNS MP which monitors essential parts of your DNS infrastructure. Something that is missing and I think makes sense […]

SCOM 2012 Virtual Labs – Explore SCOM 2012

Here a short blog post just in case you didn’t know. Microsoft has created a virtual lab for SCOM 2012 it is called “System Center 2012 Operations Manager: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring” . There you are able to explore Dashboards, Application Monitoring and Network Monitoring. The good point is you have access to more […]

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. […]