A few months before the Christmas break, I had the pleasure of being invited over to the excellent SCOM Day event in Sweden to present a se...

As anyone who's ever worked with SCOM will know, it's a fairly heavy and complex product to get your head around at first and the la...

Yesterday I noticed that a new release (version 6.6.2.0) of the SQL 2012 & 2014 management packs has just landed and there's a lot o...

If you ever have a problem trying to identify which version of your application its build number relates to, then I've got something pre...

My good friend Marnix has just blogged a very interesting post about a really slow performing SCOM console issue that he was having at one ...

I've just seen a tweet from Microsoft's Yung Chou about a relatively unknown TechNet Wiki page titled the  'E-Book Gallery for ...

My good friend and fellow Irish CDM MVP Paul Keely has just published a new whitepaper that outlines how to deploy SCOM 2012 R2 in a highly ...

Microsoft has just released a new management pack update for monitoring SQL. We first got a preview of this management pack at the Microsoft...

I'm back in action this week with another SCOM project and have come across an issue when deploying a new SCOM 2012 SP1 environment onto...

Microsoft's flagship conference -  TechEd 2013 - is kicking off today (June 3rd) in New Orleans. The Day 1 keynote speech by Microsoft...

A good friend of mine and fellow Irish System Center MVP Paul Keely  has taken the time to write up an excellent guide on SQL 2008 R2 and Sy...

In Part 1 of this short series, I walked through the manual installation of the SCOM databases using the DBCreateWizard.exe utility and als...

This is a blog post that I’ve been meaning to put up for nearly a year but kept forgetting to document the process during SCOM installs – un...