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SQL Server – Gain Easy Sysadmin Access (!)

Today I had a very cool idea, which I like to share. A customer of mine had trouble with his SQL Server 2008 R2. Because of that, he needed to open SQL Server Management Studio for troubleshooting and then he realized that he was not able to login into SQL server neither with his domain […]

Fixing Citrix WMI errors 0x80041001 / 0x80041002 – XenApp 6

I am sure during your Operations Manager career you already faced some WMI errors while installing e.g. Active Directory or XenApp management packs. A few days ago I installed the XenApp 6.0 MP in SCOM 2007 R2. Suddenly errors 0x80041001 and 0x80041002 appeared in Active Alerts view. WMI errors are always kind of pain in […]

SCOM 2012 – Find SCOM Object for “Unknown” ID in Alert

There are sometimes alerts which might contain some strange id’s which are not as informational as you might would like have. One way to find out what is hiding behind this id is to use a SCOM Powershell command. As an example, today I received an alert that looked like this…