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Quick Post – Check Linux Certificate Issued by SCOM

I assume you have already deployed SCOM and you are monitoring Linux or another kind of UNIX derivate. If you are new to cross platform monitoring I recommend my older blog posts in the Xplat category . SCOM uses certificates to communicate with the Linux/UNIX agent. These certificates are signed by a randomly chosen management […]

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 – Operations Manager 2012 Sizing Helper Tool

Microsoft just released the new Operations Manager 2012 Sizing Helper Tool. There was a similar Tool (basically it is an Excel sheet) for SCOM 2007 R2. But now there is also some guidance on Best Practices Disk Configuration, SQL Temp DB, High Availability and Network Monitoring. This tool can be found here .