Entries by Ingmar Verheij

SCOM: (Un)sealing a Management Pack

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System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) uses Management Packs to discover, monitor and collect data about product. Usually a Management Pack is used per product such as Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010, SQL 2008, etc. Commercial management packs are sealed, which means you can’t edit the content of the management pack Unsealing a management pack In some […]

SCOM : Open view direct in console

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System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) gives you great insights in your IT infrastructure. (Pro) active monitoring you’re environment enables you to respond quickly to alerts and (maybe) prevent outage. One way to get informed is by hanging monitors in the “IT room” with dashboards displaying the environment. You can create a “view” in the Management […]

Install SCOM 2007R2 on SQL 2008R2 (including reporting server)

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When installing the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2 database on a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 the installation failes because a prerequisite is not met: This is caused by an outdated installer which doesn’t recoginize SQL 2008R2. Altough installing on SQL 2005 / 2008 will prevent this message there is an alternative. […]

Excel 2010 crashes on Save(as) / Macro

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After working multiple days on an Excel worksheet with lots a data, charts en Macro’s the worksheet somehow crashes today. Altough I haven’t found out what iniated the problem (maybe the installation of Adobe Reader X?) I have found a “solution” to the problem. First of all the symptoms. After opening an Excel 2010 worksheet, […]

True is not true (?)

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This error is thrown when an XML file is read into a DataSet using “System.Boolean” as DataType. Ingmar VerheijWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.

Maintenance mode

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Monitoring servers, services and connections is great. It enables pro-active management, notification and escalation and improves root cause analysis. One big challenge is the number of notifications being sent and the relevance of those notifications. A well set-up environment sents notifications when problems raise or a negative trend is detected. Signals for the Administrator to […]

Change driveletter of CD-rom

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In a deployment using Altiris (or any other deployment utility) it is common to change driveletters. Especially when servers are reinstalled once in a while, you probably encounter problems doing so using diskpart. Diskpart is the utility supplied with Windows by Microsoft which enables you to manage you disks, partitions and volumes. One limitation is, […]

(No more) support for Windows Server 2003 R2

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As of tomorrow, 7/14/2010, the mainstream support for Windows Server 2003 R2 is retired. This applies to all versions (Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, etc., 32-bit and 64-bit). For Business and Development software, like Windows Server products, the support gets extended for an additional 5 years. This “Extended support phase” will end on 7/14/2015. The good thing […]

My files in "the cloud" with Dropbox

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Recently some unfortunate events happened which made me think about the safety of my files. So what happened? Well, because I’m using both my laptop as my home PC the documents needed to be on both. And they needed to be consistend and safe, of course. So I created a rather complex solution where a […]

Migrating PowerFuse 2008 to 2010

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When upgrading your RES PowerFuse 2008 environment to a RES PowerFuse 2010 beware of the fact that the database structure has changes. Although the upgrade path should be pretty straight forward, there are some risks you should consider. During the migration you should be aware of the fact that because of the changes in the […]