Kim Oppalfens and I did a session at community day together: Setting up & Configuring SQL Server to support your SCCM & SCOM environment System Center Configuration Manager and Operations Manager both need SQL Server. In this session we will show you what the best practices are for having a smooth running SQL server for our System Center environment. Having a good initial setup and configuration is not the only important thing, doing regular health checks on your SQL server is even more important...(read more)

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