Today I ran in an unexpected problem at a customer. My mission was to install a SCOM 2012 SP1 Proof-of-Concept to show the customer what is possible and what information he can get out of SCOM. My last couple of installation were of course on Windows Server 2012. This customer was using Windows Server 2008 […]
Troubleshooting
Quick Post – Visio 2013 Stencils Bluish Single-Colored
Today I had some conceptual work to do and as this always involves some fancy Visio diagrams, I ran into a problem which might also could happen to you. Microsoft has released great Windows Server 2012 / Office 365 stencils for Visio 2013. You can find them here. As soon you start Visio and import […]
SCOM – Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) Configure HTTPS Listener (SSL)
I used to believe the source code of the Windows operating system would be the best kept secret in the world, but I was taught there is another best kept secret on this planet. Yes, the secret was/is – “How do you configure https for Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM)?”. There is very poor documentation from […]
SCOM 2012 – Fixing SLA Dashboard Weird ID Naming Problem
Some time ago, while doing some distributed applications and SLA dashboards I encountered a problem in the SLA dashboard. Instead of displaying the full readable name of the objects there were partially some ID’s from the management pack displayed. I usually install an English Windows Server operating system and also the English version of the […]
SCOM 2012 – Install SCOM PowerShell Modules Without SCOM Console Installation
Yes we all know less is sometimes more. This saying does not only belong to the human bodyweight, nope, since the Windows Server Core area we all know less “*.dll” is better. Like this saying, a few days ago I had been asked an interesting question. How can we use the SCOM PowerShell module without […]
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. […]
Orchestrator 2012 SP1 – PowerShell 3.0, Run .Net Activity and Get-SCXAgent
New things are not always good things or at least old habits change. I had been working on some runbooks in Orchestrator 2012 SP1 and needed to run PowerShell 3.0 and the .Net Activity. I installed Orchestrator 2012 SP1 on Windows Server2008 R2 which has PowerShell 2.0 installed natively. Then I wanted to use the […]
Quick Post – Get “Register this connection’s addresses in DNS” Setting Quickly
Today I had an urgent requirement to get from a selected part of servers the network setting “Register this connection’s addresses in DNS”. The reason was, that some server didn’t register their settings in DNS because this setting was not set and therefore the A-record was not registered in DNS. My time was limited approximately […]
SCOM 2012 SP1 – “Unable to Proceed” Troubleshooting Upgrade Error
As I already have learned in many ways – Don’t assume anything, proof it! Another rule is – What you see is not always what you get. With those two quotes in mind we have to start troubleshooting in IT. Today I spent quite some time troubleshooting an SCOM SP1 upgrade installation. I wanted to […]
SCOM 2012 – Event ID 31557 Health Service Modules
Strange things happen all the time but sometimes nobody can explain them why they happen. A relatively new SCOM 2012 installation was functioning well until a certain moment. I would like to blog about this behavior it might help somebody to get the same or similar problem solved. As I mentioned before this new and […]