Well I love to automate things a lot using PowerShell – really I do! The success of automation depends on two major things. First there are the detailed requirements and secondly technical documentation of your stuff you want to automate. In reality, most projects do not cover both parameters in a satisfying way at all. […]
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Quick Post – SCOM 2016 Upgrade Notes
During my Discussion Panel: Monitoring, Insights & Analytics together with my buddy MVP Kevin Greene at Experts Live Europe in Berlin, we mostly spent time discussing concerns about upgrading to SCOM 2016. A lot attendees were interested what are possible pitfalls, what are the experiences from the field and what is possibly the best upgrade […]
OMS – Upgrade Workspace Error
Few weeks ago Microsoft introduced the new Azure Log Analytics query language to OMS Log Analytics. In order to use the new language with your workspace you need to upgrade your current workspace. It is very simple and basically a one-click experience and there are new features available as MVP Marcel Zehner describes in his […]
SCOM 2016 – Upgrade Notes from the Field
Upgrading from SCOM 2012 R2 to SCOM 2016 is theoretically no such big deal. BUT sometimes you could face issues at the customer’s infrastructure, which force you to take some extra hurdle. This post should give you a high level overview of different migration scenarios and additionally some pitfalls you could meet upgrading to SCOM […]
SCOM 2016 – System.Data.SqlClient. SqlException, Exception Error Code: 0x80131904 Login failed for user
Sometimes there are things you won’t understand. I tried to install a new SCOM 2016 management server in a virgin Azure VM (Windows Server 2016). The necessary SQL Server 2016 was placed on another Azure VM (Windows Server 2016). Well this is nothing special and I have installed SCOM a gazillion times, BUT now I […]
SCOM 2012 R2 – SQL Server 2014 / Report Viewer 2014 Support
Microsoft announced few month ago SCOM 2012 R2 offers support for SQL Server 2014… And if we go to the TechNet article it also clearly says, SCOM 2012 R2 is supported on SQL Server 2014 here described… There is even a perfect table which explains everything clearly… From my point of view, this let’s us […]
SCOM 2012 R2 Technical Preview – A Box of Chocolates?
I was asked few times during my engagements what has changed in the System Center Operations Manager Technical Preview. Microsoft released few weeks ago a first technical preview of Windows 10, Windows Server and System Center. You can download Windows 10 here , for Windows Server and System Center you need to have a MSDN […]
Quick Post – Documenting Setups & Installations Smartly
I am a big fan of smart solutions and approaches. Today I had one of these moments which I really liked. I was going to update a SCOM 2012 environment to SCOM 2012 SP1. Because the customer only had Thin Clients, which basically only provide an RDP client, it was somewhat limited with tools available. […]
SCOM 2012 Veeam MP for VMware 6.0 – Part 2 FAQ
Few month ago I had written about the installation respectively upgrade of the Veeam management pack from version 5.7 to 6.0. You will find this post on my blog called SCOM 2012 Veeam MP for VMware 6.0 – Part 1 Upgrade. Alec King, who is the “father” of the Veeam MP, attended System Center Universe […]
SCOM 2012 SP1 – Configure Web Console HTTPS “500 – Internal server error”
Yesterday, I bumped into an issue while configuring https for the SCOM web console. As this is a IIS hosted website there is no magic configuring it. Well, I was taught something else. The SCOM environment was running on Windows Server 2012 and the SCOM 2012 SP1 had UR1 installed. Everything was running fine and […]