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This is part 4 of the series on how to monitor services with SCOM. First again the list of posts in the series (as far as I know until know): SCOM - Monitoring a Service - Part 1 intro SCOM - Monitoring a Service - Part 2 basic service monitor S… more »

This is part 3 of the multiple part series on monitoring a service by using the windows service monitoring template included in SCOM. To start the links to other parts of the series: SCOM - Monitoring a Service - Part 1 intro SCOM - Monitoring a… more »

This is part 2 of the multiple part series on monitoring a service (yeah how much can we say about this...?). To start the links to other parts of the series: SCOM - Monitoring a Service - Part 1 intro SCOM - Monitoring a Service - Part 2 basic ser… more »

I regularly get questions about service monitoring for custom services or just for services of applications where they do not want to implement full management packs. In almost every case there are different prerequisites in the question. Most of the ti… more »

Timothy McFadden published another tool to compliment your SCOM toolbox. It is the Subscriptions copier. And it is used to - uhm - copy subscriptions! So how can this be usefull? Well in many cases subscriptions are not always that easy (like the sen… more »

The other day we saw another error on the SCOM RMS that looked familiar in some way, but of course I had lost the links to the KB articles. So what happens? We see these alerts coming from the event log and reflected in SCOM alerts: Data Warehouse… more »

Hi guys and girls. it has been a busy week for me last week and I didn't feel like blogging last weekend :-) So now some catching up to do! System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cumulative Update 4 (SCOM CU4) has been released last week. It contains… more »

I saw a post from Javier Ripoll that he released management packs and agents for Ubuntu 10 (x86) and Debian 5 (x86) to Codeplex. His post can be found here. Great Work Javier! Bob Cornelissen more »

It is our SCOM guru Vlad Joanovic talking about SCOM v Next on TechNet Edge videos! more »

One nice gem from Steve Rachui's blog is a trick on how to simply troubleshoot remote SQL connections. Just create an empty txt file anywhere on the disk and give it an UDL extension and click it. You will see a tool popping up with several tabs. on t… more »