SCOM Archives - Thomas Maurer

System Center 2019 now generally available!

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:02:45 +0000

A couple of weeks a go the System Center team announced that System Center 2019 will be available in March 2019. Today is the good day, the general availability of System Center 2019 is announced. You can now download the LTSC release in the MSDN and the VLSC portal, and if you want to have …

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System Center 2019 – What’s new

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:31:32 +0000

Microsoft just launched Windows Server 2019 and Windows Admin Center, which also raised the interest in System Center 2019. At Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft was talking about what is new in System Center 2019, the future of System Center, and how it fits in with Windows Admin Center and other management tools. Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter …

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Speaking at SCOM Days 2018 Gothenburg

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:26:25 +0000

I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at the Swedish SCOM-dagen 2018 conference in Gothenburg. This years main topic of the SCOM-dagen or SCOM Days 2018, is Hybrid Cloud Monitoring. In my session I will cover an overview about Azure Stack and than focus on Azure Stack operations and monitoring. The SCOM …

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Microsoft released System Center 1801 Semi-Annual Channel

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:31:17 +0000

Microsoft just release the first Semi-Annual Channel release for System Center, called System Center, version 1801. This is the first release which now comes out to support the Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel releases like 1709 and also brings some new features and performance improvements. System Center, version 1801 is the first of our Semi-Annual Channel …

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Passed Microsoft Exam 70-745 Implementing a Software-Defined Datacenter

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:53:01 +0000

This summer I took the Microsoft beta exam 70-745 Implementing a Software-Defined Datacenter, which focuses on implementing Software-Defined Datacenter solutions, based on Hyper-V, Windows Server, Software Defined Networking and Storage, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, System Center Operations Manager and everything around it. Plan and Implement System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Core Infrastructure Implement Software-Defined …

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eBook: 5 Top Questions about SCOM and OMS

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:26:48 +0000

Together with Microsoft MVP Dieter Wijckmans, I collaborated on an eBook with Savision about the 5 top questions that we have come across regarding System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS). There is much debate around SCOM and OMS, and the common belief is that OMS is competing against SCOM. This is contributing …

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ONLINE SESSION: Monitoring and Analytics with Microsoft SCOM & OMS

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 29 May 2017 17:09:45 +0000

I am happy to announce that I will present in another webinar. Together with Savision, Dieter Wijckmans and I will present how to do Monitoring and Analytics with Microsoft SCOM and OMS. So if you are wondering, like many others, if you can and should use SCOM and OMS together? If you are, you are not alone. …

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SCOM Management Pack for Azure Stack

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 09 May 2017 21:51:31 +0000

Today, Thomas Roettinger Senior Program Manager in the Azure Stack Team announced the Technical Preview of the Microsoft Azure Stack Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager. System Center is a datacenter management tool used by many enterprises out there, Operations Manager allows you to monitor your complete datacenter environment based on Management Packs which …

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Summary: Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2012 R2 and Azure Pack now available

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:28:22 +0000

Microsoft just released System Center 2012 R2 Update Rollup 6, which includes a lot of new features and fixes. With this Update Rollup 6 Microsoft now supports SQL Server 2014 as databases for the System Center and Windows Azure Pack components. Components that are fixed in this update rollup Data Protection Manager (KB3030574) Option to …

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System Center Operations Manager Management Pack for Windows Server Storage Spaces

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:59:49 +0000

Microsoft just released the System Center Operations Manager Management Pack for Windows Server Storage Spaces 2012 R2 to the public. This allows you to monitor your Storage Spaces deployments with Operations Manager. You can download the Management Pack for Storage Spaces from the Microsoft Download Site. Monitoring Scenarios This Management Pack contains rules to monitor physical …

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