New samples and documents repository

All the QND contents in terms of samples and documents have been moved to this location https://www.sugarsync.com/share/c3rp89z0ggxrx. Past articles and posts could result in broken links.

System Center Advisor has been released

Eventually the first product of the System Center family arrives, it’s System Center Advisor completely operated from the cloud and a natural complement to OpsMgr. Advisor, as the name implies, is a monitoring product built to give advices and best practices to run your infrastructure, these information are based on a scheduled upload of data [...]

Troubleshooting Sharepoint Ping Web Application Failed monitor

Recently I’ve been engaged by my support engineers that were stuck on several critical alerts raised by the Sharepoint management pack. The most cryptic of them all was relates to the "Ping Web Application failed" monitor. The alert message states "A critical incident has occurred where the ping to the Web Application <url> has failed." [...]

Using SCOM as a basic configuration audit system – Part 6 monitoring

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Using SCOM as a basic configuration audit system – Part 5 discoveries

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