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A few weeks ago I posted an article about some of my lessons learned for SCOM 2012 SP1 command line installations. It contained a very long Lesson 4 talking about creation and placement and naming of mostly the Datawarehouse database. I discussed the di… more »

For one of my customers I have been fooling around with a clean SCOM 2012 SP1 install through command line. I ran into some issues and workarounds that you might want to be aware of. There are probably more to come, but I thought it better to post this… more »

In the case you have done a clean install of SCOM 2012 SP1 you might want to take a look at the file names of the OperationsManagerDW database and log files. They might look like this: So empty names for the files and ending up with ".mdf" and ".… more »

It was about 10 months ago since I published a simple script for SCOM 2007 R2 to close old alerts coming from rules. The reasoning is that: 1) alerts from rules do not close themselves, 2) they do have a last modified date of x days ago, so might not be… more »

Whenever you are designing or documenting SCOM environments you are likely to run into Visio to create those pictures with. Now in the past for SCOM 2007 we had the visio stencils which Jonathan Cusson brought together over here. Until now we did not ha… more »

The Infrastructure Planning and Design guide (IPD) for SCOM 2012 has just been released for download. As I wrote before it had been in development for a few months. You can download the new SCOM 2012 IPD guide over here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwli… more »

A few months ago Microsoft released newer versions of the Windows Server base OS management pack. This version had a good number of improvements, especially in the monitoring of cluster disk and cluster shared volumes. However the pack was still not com… more »

Had something funny today, with an unsealed management pack failing to import. It gave an error like so: The management pack cannot be imported. Xml failure while validating maangement pack. [Line: 227, Position 18] hexadecimal value 0x00, is an i… more »

Lately we have gotten many questions about when the book Mastering System Center 2012 Operations Manager from Sybex would be available. It is great that you all have so much interest in what we are writing about and when you can get your hands on it! B)… more »

By request, hereby a script which restarts all SCOM 2012 agents in the management group. This is run from for instance a management server. It picks up the names of all agents (not the management servers!) and gets the HealthService of those machines an… more »