SCOM Trick 13 – SPN

Service Principal Names (SPN) are used to uniquely identify an instance of a service. SCOM Services are also registered and mostly everything will be just fine, but in some cases you might have issues with this.
My friend Walter Eikenboom has writte…

SCOM Trick 12 – Diagnostic logging

In some cases you might require a lot more info from SCOM about what is going on during troubleshooting. In that case you might want to have more diagnostic logging (more verbose). Here is how to use it.
How to use diagnostic tracing in System Center…

SCOM Trick 10 – SCOM console renew

Many times it can happen that you are looking at stale data in the SCOM console. For instance you click on an alert and it gives you an error, saying that it has already been closed (in more difficult terms). Sometimes you see an entry in a list that sh…

SCOM console crashes when running a task

Have seen a thread today on the TechNet forums about the SCOM Console crashing when running a task. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/operationsmanagergeneral/thread/c339c327-1e7d-412b-9d1a-5ae0b8a2e0f8/#9ae059f9-f881-4fa1-9d42-fceed4c4ef…

SCOM Trick 9 – Maintenance mode tooling

As I have said in SCOM Trick 7, the use of maintenance mode is important. But not always will somebody use the normal SCOM interface (or web interface) to start maintenance mode right before they start working on the machine. To be honest a lot of the t…