When selecting the isolate users options as shown below in IIS there is an unwritten requirement to put all user folders under the FTP site root directory in a folder called “LocalUser”. This can cause issues, let me explain why… When enabling this setting it will lock users into a directory named as their username … Read more
This is a continuation of the blog post series about using Microsoft monitoring tools to monitor a Philips Hue Bridge as an example of how to monitor an API based device. To jump back to the first page of the series and the table of contents, click here. Getting access to Philips Hue Bridge … Read more
This is a continuation of the blog post series about using Microsoft monitoring tools to monitor a Philips Hue Bridge as an example of how to monitor an API based device. To jump back to the first page of the series and the table of contents, click here. Introduction and Device Setup So, we are … Read more
This is a post about using Microsoft monitoring tooling to monitor a device with an API. It will be a series of posts, due to different things to take care of and different ways to monitor and display data. I will be using part of my home automation for this, which is a Philips Hue … Read more
Often it can be useful for other teams and departments to edit and run their own Azure automation runbooks, however, this creates a challenge – permissions. Runbooks live and are managed from within Azure Automation accounts which are in turn connected to log analytics workspaces and their associated agents. Both automation accounts and log analytics … Read more
While working for a client, the seemingly simple task of installing the SCOM Linux agent on a Red Hat 7 server, suddenly became a bit less easy. After successfully attempting to discover a server and try to manage it as well, the following error previously unknown to me was presented: Failed to install kit. Exit … Read more
In the month of May 2021 the Microsoft MVP’s were challenged to participate voluntarily in a cloud skills challenge. During time of the Microsoft Ignite events there are more often learning challenges for the whole public, which means going through a number of Microsoft Learn modules within a certain time. Usually this is about 8 … Read more
As you have read in one of my previous posts, TopQore is a sponsor and speaker at SCOMathon June 2021 edition. It the biggest event dedicated to SCOM and Microsoft monitoring solutions of the year. We surely hope you have registered for the event and will check out the great line-up of presenters and sessions … Read more
This year I will be speaking again at the SCOMathon conference of 8+9 June 2021. I am very excited about this, because this event manages to bring together many SCOM experts to talk about SCOM and things directly around it. There will be a large group of community members listening to the sessions which start … Read more
Hello SCOM community friends. We would like to know what versions of SCOM you are running in Production. This is also a research for the upcoming SCOMathon session in June (will blog separately). We would love to get an idea of numbers of SCOM versions running in your environments. We have posted a poll on … Read more