SCOM 2012 beta first install

SO, following the great news of the release of the public beta for SCOM 2012 I thought to give my first install of this product a go. I will list the things I have done and ran into:
Windows and roles install
Installed a clean machine windows 2008…

SCOM 2012 Beta is out

Alright!, just read some good news from Justin Incarnato over at the SCOM Blog…
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/07/19/system-center-operations-manager-2012-beta-is-live.aspx
The SCOM 2012 public beta is out and ready for download a…

Going on holiday

I will be out on holidays for a few weeks. Not sure if I will be able to post or reply a lot during that time. Almost sure it will be more quiet over here during that time as I can imagine my agenda gets filled very fast while I am there (using ad-hoc p…

SCOM Trick 47 – SCC Health Check reports

While working with SCOM you will want to know more about what is happening to your monitoring system. This could also be for reasons of troubleshooting, but also in order to catch problems before you will actually be affected by them.
Oskar Landman and…

SCOM Trick 46 – Green machine MP

Another community management pack that deserves a mention is the Green Machine mp. Yet another mp made by Cameron Fuller. At some point you would want to reset the health state of a machine back to green for troubleshooting purposes or if something wen…

SCOM Trick 45 – ReSearch This MP

A few tricks must be dedicated to community management packs, simply because they provide a great added value to the product. Some of these are created to provide monitoring for some kind of product, some are for viewing or reporting purposes and some a…