• Tweaking SCOM 2012 Management Servers for large environments

    There are many articles on tweaking certain registry settings for SCOM agents, Gateways, and Management servers, for many reasons. Large deployments, custom 3rd party MP’s, monitoring Exchange 2010 to name a few. Matt Goedtel has a good list on his blog...
  • WMI Leaks Memory on Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller / DNS server roles – Hotfix available

    There was an issue when you monitored DNS server roles on Windows Server 2012 R2 servers. The DNS PowerShell WMI provider would leak memory each time it was called. When you monitor DNS, and leverage this WMI provider, you would see an aggressive memory...
  • UR2 for SCOM 2012 R2 – Step by Step

    Sorry I am a bit behind in publishing this post. KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2929891 Download catalog site: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2929891 Key fixes: Issue 1 - This update rollup makes the stored procedure...
  • Introducing Thing 1 and Thing 2

    My blog has been silent for a bit lately. This is because of the birth of my first children. SCOM world - Meet Logan and Lexi Holman. I’ll be taking some time off work to spend with them during the next few weeks as well. Logan has already been discussing...
  • Creating Groups of Health Service Watcher Objects based on other Groups

    It has been a well known requirement for most customers, to be able to Create Groups of Windows Computers that also contain corresponding Health Service Watcher objects. This was needed for Alert Notification subscriptions so that different teams could...