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The SCCM team have reached another milestone in getting the release candidates for SCCM 2012 and FEP 2012 released to the public. Also interesting that they are moving the antivirus product name from ForeFront to System Center as it seems. See the extra… more »

Less than 2 weeks ago Microsoft released a new version of the Base-OS management pack for Windows Server 2000/2003/2008). This MP contains a few cool new features and updates. Also there were a number of community feedbacks implemented, which is a very… more »

Saw a message from Nishtha Soni today about the support for SQL 2008 R2 SP1 for SCOM: I will paste it below. A big thanks for the message from Nishtha!! OM Community, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 now supports SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. Note… more »

I just wrote some additional words and explanations on my comments on the newly released Base OS management pack and the issues surrounding it, and our initiative to use community support to help the case of asking for a newer version of the mp, with so… more »

This is a continuation of my notes on the fifth SCOM 2012 CEP meeting on Application Performance Monitoring. This is a two part post. You can find the first post over here. Application monitoring The discovery is done through the IIS discovery fir… more »

SCOM CEP 2012. 4 October 2011 Michael Guthrie Application Performance Management picture1 Advantage will be that there is no need to adjust the code for the .Net application. The code is attached by APM to the IIS. picture 2 framework… more »

This morning I talked to my good friend and SCOM guru Marnix Wolf about the new Base OS management pack version 6.0.6956.0 that was just released a few days ago. Same as in his case I was writing up a blog post about the mp, when I started noticing some… more »

Just to inform you that the next SCOM 2012 CEP meeting is tomorrow and is on the subject of Application monitoring. Application monitoring is a monitoring layer that is scary to dive into, because for many non-Microsoft products there are no management… more »

For a script I was creating in order to classify new alerts in SCOM, I found myself wanting to find alerts that had been in a "New" state for over 30 minutes and give it a specific Resolution State. So just started out creating a search string in Pow… more »