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SCOM 2012 – Custom AEM Reports

Posted on May 14, 2013

If you followed the community lately, you see some are writing blog posts about reporting in System Center. It is funny as I also have been playing around with Report Builder 3.0 lately and it seems that I am following … Continue reading →

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System Center Universe DACH/Europe (SCU DACH) – FAQ

Posted on May 9, 2013

Have you ever heard of the famous System Center Universe (SCU) hosted by Catapult Systems? If not then it’s about time to visit http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com and check out the excellent content. After talking to Catapult Systems we decided to bring this … Continue reading →

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SCOM 2012 SP1 – The .NET Framework 3.5.1 Story…

Posted on April 30, 2013

Today I ran in an unexpected problem at a customer. My mission was to install a SCOM 2012 SP1 Proof-of-Concept to show the customer what is possible and what information he can get out of SCOM. My last couple of … Continue reading →

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Quick Post – Visio 2013 Stencils Bluish Single-Colored

Posted on April 19, 2013

Today I had some conceptual work to do and as this always involves some fancy Visio diagrams, I ran into a problem which might also could happen to you. Microsoft has released  great Windows Server 2012 / Office 365 stencils … Continue reading →

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SCOM 2012 Veeam MP for VMware 6.0 – Part 1 Upgrade

Posted on April 18, 2013

About a year ago I wrote a blog post about an excellent management pack from Veeam to monitor a VMware ESX infrastructure. Veeam also released this year their new version of the management pack it is now officially called Veeam … Continue reading →

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MMS 2013 Download Sessions – Offline Viewing

Posted on April 10, 2013

Last year I published a PowerShell script to download the MMS sessions. It has been such a great success that I got a lot of nice responses. Therefore I made just small changes and it will work for the MMS … Continue reading →

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SCOM – Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) Configure HTTPS Listener (SSL)

Posted on April 4, 2013

I used to believe the source code of the Windows operating system would be the best kept secret in the world, but I was taught there is another best kept secret on this planet. Yes, the secret was/is – “How … Continue reading →

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SCOMfaq@MMS2013

Posted on April 3, 2013

In a few days the MMS 2013 will open it’s door in Las Vegas. There is no better way of explaining what MMS is or means by taking the words from the MMS 2013 website. About MMS The Microsoft Management … Continue reading →

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SCOM 2012 – Getting SCOM SNMP Device Properties in PowerShell

Posted on March 26, 2013

Have you ever tried to access a network device respectively network device properties in SCOM using PowerShell? Let’s say you want to access the network device’s IP address, vendor or description for using in a script? Well, I am sure … Continue reading →

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SCOM 2012 – Fixing SLA Dashboard Weird ID Naming Problem

Posted on March 16, 2013

Some time ago, while doing some distributed applications and SLA dashboards I encountered a problem in the SLA dashboard. Instead of displaying the full readable name of the objects there were partially some ID’s from the management pack displayed. I … Continue reading →

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