Everyone talks these days about automation, services and self-service. Rarely you will find a session which is showing you a real world case showing how it is really done. I am happy to speak at the “Experts 2 Experts Virtualization Conference” in Lisbon together with my wingman Stefan Johner http://jhnr.ch/. The event takes place from […]
System Center
SMA – About Jobs & Sandboxes
SMA is a great tool for automation of many kind like IT related tasks or as an interface between two systems or business processes you would like to have done automatically. Building workflows is not that easy, but once you get the trick it is not that hard. After you built your workflows, at some […]
VMM 2012 R2 – Remove Corrupted SCOM Connector
Yet another interesting SCOM problem. Today I was at a customer for fixing some SCOM issues, respectively to reinstall SCOM. The problem was, that there was a SCOM incl. VMM integration in place. Because of many issues SCOM was removed without properly removing the VMM integration. So if you tried to remove the SCOM connector […]
SCOM 2016 TP3 – Connecting Operations Management Suite Problem
Microsoft released SCOM 2016 TP3 end of August 2015 and of course I am eager to know what’s new. One problem I hit, was trying to onboard SCOM to Operations Management Suite (OMS) on Windows Server 2016 TP3. Onboarding to OMS is as easy as 1-2-3 (usually), but this time Internet Explorer settings are blocking […]
Quick Post – Influence SCOM vNext Features aka “SCOM Wish List”
It is not quite Christmas yet but you are right now allowed to submit your wish list for SCOM features and improvements! The SCOM product team opened yesterday a feedback form for submitting any ideas for SCOM vNext. There might be things you are missing, things you hate how they work or you just have […]
DPM 2012 R2 – Console “No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it”
Doing same things again and again, does not mean they end up always the same way. At one point you want to monitor DPM 2012 R2 and you probably want to use the Central Console to manage your DPM servers. If you want to achieve this, you need to install the Central Console on the […]
SCOM – Database Performance & Configuration Sources
Most customers who are using SCOM need sooner or later tips and resources to check if their SCOM databases are in proper condition and might want to check if there are some performance issues. The Operations Manager team has just published a very useful post for troubleshooting database performance issues. In addition there is a […]
SCOM 2012 R2 Technical Preview 2 – What’s New?
Few days ago Microsoft released the technical preview of it’s Windows Server and System Center stack. One thing I am very interested in is SCOM, if there is anything new. Find all System Center TP 2 downloads here Find Windows Server (2016) TP 2 here If you download SCOM in comes on a pre-configured VHD […]
SCSM – Passing Attachments via Web Service e.g. SMA Web Service
If you do automation in a “Microsoft World” you probably start these days with Service Manager and Service Management Automation (SMA). At one point you will have a need for building a connector to another system for exchanging data. One example could be that you need to submit incident data from Service Manager to another […]
SCOM 2012 / SCSM 2012 – CMP Tool V 1.0 (Compare Management Pack Tool)
This blog has been quiet for some time because I was quite busy with all kind of stuff. Anyway, this time I would like to share a tool I created to compare management packs in SCOM /SCOM or SCOM/SCSM, SCSM/SCSM management groups. In real life it is hard to compare the current management packs installed […]