January 19 2012 8:17 AM

System Center Universe Live Stream

If you have missed out on it, System Center Universe provides a live stream at http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com/ starting now.

November 10 2011 10:47 AM

Unfreezing SCOM 2012 Setup

Don’t you hate it? You run some setup and it’s UI freezes, so you have no idea if it is actually doing something or not. Basically, during the Upgrading process for the Management Group on the RMS I had that screen for quite some time: I checked Taskmana...

September 15 2011 9:39 AM

SCOM 2007 Agent fails to start: No certificate could be loaded or created.

That’s a new one, at least for me. After the usual “flush agent cache” approaches I thought I should give google a shot and I stumbled across this thread here on TechNet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/operationsmanagergeneral/thread/e9...

August 09 2011 11:24 AM

Operations Manager 2007: Installing CU5

There isn’t much you will find here that isn’t already covered by Kevin Holman’s blog post, except for a problem with the DB Update script. However, it’s always good to have a documentation on the upgrade steps taken and this is basically mine which I wan...

August 03 2011 12:40 PM

Operations Manager 2012 Beta – Disaster recovering back to 2007 R2

In case you read the Operations Manager 2012 guides you might have noticed that it’s insanely unsupported to upgrade to Beta in a production environment. I mean this line here: ”You should only upgrade an Operations Manager 2007 R2 management group to Op...

August 01 2011 10:24 AM

Operations Manager 2012 Beta – Upgrading Push-Installed Agents

- Rant - The Setup - Upgrade Steps - Upgrade secondary Management Server - Check what the Agent does - Upgrade the Agent - Conclusion Rant Recently I ran an upgrade from a distributed Management Group with a RMS cluster, a secondary Management Server and...

July 22 2011 1:06 PM

Operations Manager 2012 Beta – Upgrading from a distributed 2007 Environment with a RMS Cluster. Part 2/2

Note: Wall of Screenshots – G3 Killer ;) - Rant - Upgrade Setup - Docs needed - Prerequisites Check - Upgrade Path Checklist - Time to upgrade - Post-Upgrade Tasks - RMS Cluster Removal - Reintegrating the RMS Nodes Rant This is pretty raw footage of my...

July 22 2011 1:04 PM

Operations Manager 2012 Beta – Upgrading from a distributed 2007 Environment with a RMS Cluster. Part 1/2

– Rant – Preparing the Setup – Final Setup – Final Checks Rant There we go, years have passed now using Operations Manager 2007 and since recently it became pretty rock solid. I have built pretty much everything I need, and automated most administrative...

July 21 2011 10:01 AM

Problems during SCOM Setup? Use DebugView

Now, this may sound like an ad or something, but in fact – it is ridiculously useful and the best of it, it’s for free and from Microsoft. You can get it here. I had problems setting up my SCOM LAB, specifically the secondary Management Server which just...

July 12 2011 8:05 AM

Gateway Server Failover Management Pack

- Terms of use and Feedback - Rant - Management Pack Features - Management Pack Usage NOTE: The Download button is on top of the page, right next to the stars. Terms of use and Feedback WARNING! I will not take any responsibility for any damage this Mana...