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My good friend and MVP Kevin Greene put out a blog post here with details on how you can win a copy of Mastering System Center 2012 Operations Manager by downloading and evaluating System Center. Look here for his blog post. 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 »

Funny things this System Center 2012. As you probably know by now Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012 is available for some, but not yet in GA (General availability) status. Expecting that to be soon, and please watch for announcements on the System C… more »

Was surprised this morning with an email stating I had earned a certification for the System Center 2012 suite. Well, I did the exams in April 2012, so I went and had a look what happened in my transcript. And at first I did not see it, but with a littl… more »

I just got the confirmation that I got renewed as MVP for SCCDM (System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management) for my second year! I want to thank the whole System Center community for making this possible! Lets have much more fun in 2013! There… more »

In my lab I was looking at upgrading three SCOM 2012 instances to the SP1 RTM version. Upgrading the ones which already had a pre-release version of the RTM of SP1 turned out to be no work at all, so I was left with the one which was SCOM 2012 UR3 and u… more »

This weekend was a good time to upgrade my DPM server from DPM 2012 with UR3 to DPM 2012 Service Pack 1. I tried to capture the whole process in words and pictures; for anybody who is interested and as a reference when looking back later. First of al… 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 »

This is a sort of guest post from my good friend Marius van de Ven. It is about a set of management scripts for Configuration Manager. He loves to PowerShell and make his SCCM life easier and better that way. The pack of scripts can be found on TechNet… more »

You might have seen this out in the community already during some discussions and forum posts and such, but now we can tell you that the SP1 version of System Center 2012 is RTM (no not today, it was already at that stage an undisclosed amount of days a… more »