Virtual Event: SCOMathon

Incase you hadn’t heard, SCOMathon is next week. This virtual event is chock full of great content for both APAC and Western time zones. There are several sessions from Microsoft Premier Field engineers as well as MVPs and community experts.   In particular Kevin Greene will be speaking. Leon Laude is speaking. As is Bob …

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Free Business Continuity Version of SquaredUp for SCOM

SquaredUp is offering a 6 month business continuity license. With almost the entire business world working remotely this has put extra stress on our IT systems. Stress that was likely never planned for. Now more than ever we need top notch monitoring of our systems. SquaredUp provides an immense add-on value to System Center Operations …

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Proud to Announce Sponsorship by SquaredUp

In the interest of full disclosure and respect for anyone that happens upon my site I have always made clear in posts if content was sponsored in anyway. That has not been the case, until now. As you can see in the top right corner there is a single ad for SquaredUp. Previous readers of …

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Sync SCVMM Hosts to SCOM Groups

Much like in my previous post about syncing SCVMM VMs to SCOM Groups, we can Sync SCVMM Hosts to SCOM Groups.  I will show you how you can create SCOM groups from your SCVMM Host groups. Several reason you might want to do this is maintenance mode of an entire cluster, setting custom monitors or …

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Sync SCVMM Cloud VMs to SCOM groups

Within System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) you have the ability to define clouds, this is useful for a number of reasons. However, its also useful for monitoring purposes. For instance in the environment I developed this script for, we had a Prod Cloud and a Non Proud Cloud, among others. This allowed me to …

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Multi-Home Azure Log Analytics with SCOM, Custom Logs

You may already know that you can multi-home Azure Log Analytics Agents. However did you know that you can multi-home them when one of your Log Analytics sources is a SCOM Management Server? Yes you can. As well as any custom logs you create, you can simply add extra keys and workspace IDs to your …

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