Here is another blog post by Mike Hosker and this time about home folder permissions. Often in large active directory environments administrators will redirect users data to a share on the network commonly referred to as a homefolder. This data usually includes the users documents, pictures, music and videos folders and can include user … Read more
Last night Microsoft released System Center 2019 Update Rollup 3 (UR3) which was mentioned here, and with it came SCOM 2019 UR3. Earlier today I wrote about the download location and what fixes are included in SCOM 2019 UR3 and that many of them are fueled by SCOM User Voice and of course cases created … Read more
Last night the System Center team released the System Center Operations Manager 2019 Update Rollup 3 update (SCOM 2019 UR3). The KB number is KB4594078 for this one with server version number 10.19.10505.0 (also management packs) and agent version number 10.19.10177.0. Their main post covering all of the information about SCOM 2019 UR3 can be … Read more
Last night Microsoft released Update Rollup 3 (UR3) for System Center 2019, with updates for the products DPM, SCOM, VMM and SCORCH. The overview page with the links to the separate products can be found here. I will give a short overview of the fixes and improvements in those products. For SCOM I will write … Read more
Windows Admin Center (WAC) has been growing as the new default tool to manage your Windows Servers. It has been getting more and more extensions which essentially replace the old style MMC based management tools, like eventvwr, regedit, services and many more. Also the features and extensions are updated regularly to give better experiences. And … Read more
Lately we regularly have chats with customers about SCOM as an application and the security measures it has. For example if TLS1.2 is supported, because customer wants to turn older versions off. Another example is question if agents are authenticated and if traffic is encrypted while in transit. Yesterday Bhavna Appayya from the SCOM product … Read more
In the second week of December is the SCOMathon Workshop week. Every day for 5 days there will be a different workshop topic. This is from 7 December to 11 December. We at TopQore have the Tuesday 8 December scheduled and our topics are: Reporting Basics (not writing custom ones with SQL code, that is … Read more
A few weeks ago System Center 2016 Update Rollup 10 was released, but with a short delay on the SCOM update UR10. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4581612/description-of-update-rollup-10-for-microsoft-system-center-2016 Today the SCOM 2016 UR10 has been released as well. Let’s have a look at what fixes it mainly contains, and below you will find the relevant link to the page: … Read more
Recently I was tasked with setting up an Active Directory environment as the Radius authentication backend for a VPN solution, allowing users in the correct AD group to access the VPN using their AD credentials. Sounds easy enough….. right? Well, then this wouldn’t be a good read would it 🙂 It seems the built-in Windows … Read more
A few weeks ago while talking to the Humans of IT team about how I got into IT, they asked me to write a blog post about my story from Fisheries Biologist to wherever I am now. It is an interesting part of our field of work in IT, looking at people who are still … Read more