I had a couple of excellent questions asked with regards to the first blog post in this series which discussed using Power BI to gather information from an upgraded Log Analytics workspace. “How do I authenticate to schedule a refresh of data in Power BI for my particular datasets from queries? I have the option…
In the first part of this blog series I discussed some of the new capabilities available for Power BI with the release of the new query language. In this blog post I will identify some of the user interface changes which you will see after your workspace has been converted. In the third part of…
[Update 11/29/2017: With all workspaces being converted to the new query language, the original “non-converted workspace” sections of this blog post can be disregarded. I am leaving this blog post in place for historical purposes to show how this functionality changed with the new query language.] Microsoft recently released the new query language for…
Over the last decade I have been blessed to get to know a lot of the community leaders around the System Center and now Cloud and Datacenter management space (many of these were people who I met before they were recognized as MVP’s by Microsoft). Today as I look forward I am seeing people who…
Microsoft Flow offers solutions to a variety of problems which had historically not been very easy to solve. At MMS this year, Donnie Taylor and I co-presented on a topic where one of the things that we showed with Flow was how to send an email to SCOM using Flow! You can create your own…
[Update 11/29/2017: The query example in this blog post has been updated to the new query language for Log Analytics] In March of this year, Wei released a great pre-built solution which provides visualization for how much data you are sending to a free-tier OMS workspace. If you haven’t already downloaded this solution or checked…
Late last year I released an OMS solution which provided performance monitoring for Windows Server and Client operating systems. I received some good feedback on this solution that it would be useful to also visualize Linux information in the same solution. So, without further introduction welcome to the Windows and Unix system performance solution for…
I have been a long time Windows Media Center user and have been seeing how to take this forward and utilize it in new ways (for background see the blog posts below). Workaround for no television guide available in Windows Media Center after July 20th 2015 Knowing what your Windows Media Center is up to…
Where IT was… In the last twenty-plus years I have spent working in Information Technology, I have seen a lot of changes. My career started on large-scale Unix systems where we had to dedicate a team of multiple systems administrators to keeping a few Unix systems running. When it was all said and done, our…
One of the common requests I hear for OMS is the ability to perform synthetic web transactions like we can in the box with System Center Operations Manager. Think of these as a simple web “ping” which can also check for things like simple content on a page and the size of the web page…
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