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First of all my apologies to all non-Dutch readers of this blog. A part of this posting will be in Dutch since it’s mainly targeted at the Dutch audience. It’s is all about a new User Group in the Netherlands, Windows Management User Group Nederland (WM… more »

Because Microsoft released CU7 for SCOM 2007 R2 in January 2013 as explained in a previous post about this subject, it was time to also update the checking scripts I had made before for CU5 and CU6 and make them work for CU7. As I explained in the pr… more »

Microsoft released SCOM 2007 R2 CU7 last night. The relating KB article can be found here: Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2783850/en-us The update contains the following fixes (and th… more »

The Born to Learn team has posted a nice interactive graphic which shows you how to find training and get certified for Windows Server (2012). The linked picture below will take you there. Windows Server Certification and Career Paths Enjoy your… more »

Microsoft released a KB article for cases where you get this error while running SCOM 2012 on a single management server: Operations Manager Error: The All Management Servers Pool has not reported availability You may also see the following events… more »

Yesterday a new version of the SQL management pack for SCOM was released. Yes we are now on a roll with releasing new stuff! The fresh version of the SQL mp is now 6.3.173.0. The new version supports also monitoring of SQL 2012 now and will work for SC… more »

A few days ago a new Active Directory management pack was released for SCOM. It is now version 6.0.7822.0. The changes in the version can be seen below as taken directly from the download page: The AD management pack is generally a good MP and… more »

We had something funny today in a non-production environment. We were simply installing the great product nWorks 5.6. Installing the EMS first. During the install have to enter a service account. So we did, existing account in the domain, local admin… 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 »

Today ran into a SCOM Report Server that would not load correctly on a Windows 2003 with SQL 2005 version. This also gives an error in SCOM console as follows: Data Warehouse failed to request a list of management packs from SQL RS server.. And in t… more »