May 10 2012 8:30 AM

SCOM 2012 RC – Side-by-Side Migration Phase 6 – Switching to 2012 RTM CU1

This blog post is to be considered an experience report, and not an official guideline. Intro This is just a little update on where I’m at right now with my 2012 Installation. Once RTM was released on April 2nd I upgraded the environment, prepared a blog...

April 05 2012 12:57 PM

SCOM 2012 RC – Side-by-Side Migration Phase 5 – Migrating Permissions

I admit it, I’m lazy – especially when it comes down to dull tasks like creating a bulk of User Roles. Fortunately, this can be 100% scripted.

April 02 2012 12:40 PM

SCOM 2012 RC – Side-by-Side Migration Phase 4 – Importing unsealed Management Packs

This is a rough overview on my personal experience for this task and due to the nature of the subject it mustn’t be applicable to other environments. You might find a few ideas though that might be helpful. This task is a bit chaotic due to the nature...

March 07 2012 11:07 AM

SCOM 2012 RC – Side-by-Side Migration Phase 3 – Installing sealed Management Packs

Getting all sealed Management Packs up and running first in my new environment ensures that I don’t run into missing Management Pack references later on. I didn’t have much trouble here, except for me not liking it when there are strings attached to Mana...

March 07 2012 9:49 AM

The 2007 R2 Authoring Console and the 2012 Management Packs

As you might or might not know, the schema for Management Packs changed with 2012. While 2012 can read the 2007 schema Management Packs, 2007 can’t read 2012 schema Management Packs. This especially is good to know when working with the Authoring Console...

March 05 2012 6:05 AM

SCOM 2012 RC – Side-by-Side Migration Phase 2 – Setting up a new Management Group

There already are tons of blog posts about setting up 2012 RC, this blog post is therefore quite redundant and will give you no new insight, however – it is part of my side-by-side Migration and thus I want to cover it. The interesting part will be in th...

March 01 2012 4:44 AM

SCOM 2012 RC – Side-by-Side Migration Phase 1 – Preparations

There’s always a hand full of servers that just aren’t compatible with a new technology, relatively the operators of these servers aren’t… always. The main issue I am facing is that some servers just won’t receive Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003/20...

January 19 2012 8:17 AM

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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...