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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 »

Nice stuff! System Center Service Manager Service Pack 1 is out.Check out the documentation and resources over here:System Center Service Manager 2010 SP1 EvaluationSystem Center Service Manager Authoring Tool SP1Upgrade System Center Ser… more »

This is a continuation of the previous part 1 and part 2 of this blog posting. Alright -> I have my own test environment in another part of the customers network and I also have a few Red Hat machines in there. With everything working! So lets try the… more »

This is a continuation of the previous part 1 of this blog post.So on to the troubleshooting! First enable the logging as discussed in a previous post: http://www.bictt.com/blogs/bictt.php/2010/02/22/scom-discovery-wizard-error-while-deploying-redh… more »

Last week I was working with a customer who was doing a proof of concept for cross platform monitoring and some other SCOM functions. They were using an existing SCOM test environment and wanted to add a few machines for cross platform monitoring. Howeve… more »

Microsoft has made some changes to the management pack catalog on Pinpoint. It was a bit diffucult to navigate and to find certain management packs. It has improved a lot now. Check it out: http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/systemcenter Enjoy m… more »

Yeah! Finally I got the paper version of the SCOM 2007 R2 Unleashed book in my hand. My Precious (imagine the Gollum voice here)... Already had the electronic version, but I simply like real paper books most for normal reading. Thanks to Kerrie and f… more »

Going to start reading the documentation is always a good place to start. So as DPM 2010 and Service Manager 2010 hit RTM you can find the docs and links to docs here: DPM 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff399192.aspx Service Man… more »

 Yesterday Bob Muglia announced the RTM of System Center Service Manager 2010.That is great news!The trial bits should be up for download soon! more »

  As you might have heard Robert Bakker from Microsoft Netherlands organized that we could watch the keynote at their office through a live stream and have pizza afterwards. As one of the great things of the MMS is networking, we at least could mee… more »