On April 27th at 12:00 CST I have the unique opportunity to combine my off-hours pursuits with of home automation together with my drive towards implementing automation into companies! Join me for “How is IT automation taking a page out of the home automation book?” and learn about both home and business focused automation in…
This year is shaping up to be a busy one for presentations covering a variety of technologies including: Operations Manager, OMS (from a what’s new, patch management, security and API perspectives), home automation, Microsoft Flow and Power BI! I have the honor of co-presenting with an incredibly talented set of presenters including: Wally Mead, Dieter…
Microsoft OMS recently added the “Update Solution” which provides analysis of the patch status for various operating systems and the solution and perform patch management for various operating systems. For more details on the “Update Solution” and how it compares with Configuration Manager see the recent webinar: “Battle of the Titans: Patching with ConfigMgr vs.…
On February 28th at 12-1 PM CST Wally Mead and I will have our first head to head matchup on patch management. Tune in live as the Godfather of Configuration Manager Wally Mead takes on Catapult’s own MVP Cameron Fuller in a head to head match up of Microsoft Systems Management. During the…
Are you like me and you stubbornly refuse to let go of your Windows Media Center? Would you like an easy way to open a mobile application and quickly see what’s going on with your media center? If so, this solution was made for you! This solution provides information on: What shows did the Media…
Do you use Azure Automation and want to know what jobs have run and their results? Would it be even more useful to have this available on your mobile? If so, check this out! Microsoft has provided a way to route Azure Automation job information into Microsoft OMS which is available at this article: Forward…
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to attend the Microsoft MVP Global summit? If so, consider me as your tour guide for this year’s event. Good news, you even got some back stage passes! (BSP = Back Stage Pass) The Microsoft MVP summit in and around Bellevue and Redmond Washington (extremely close to the…
Recently Catapult co-blogged on methods to visualize weather information via OMS and Power BI. These blog posts are available at: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msoms/2016/11/14/visualizing-weather-information-in-power-bi-with-data-from-microsoft-oms/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msoms/2016/11/11/visualizing-weather-information-in-microsoft-oms/ The sample OMS solution which was created in the series on visualization weather information is now available for download at: OMS solution: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Weather-Solution-for-OMS-ef2faeec Unfortunately, I have been unable to find a way which…
This blog post is designed to get you from nothing to an All-In-One Operations Manager 2016 environment running in Azure on Windows 2016 with SQL 2016 in a couple of hours from start to finish. The following are the major steps involved: Creating the IaaS system in Azure Configure IaaS and the Operating System Configuring…
Do you want to know what’s new in Configuration Manager, System Center Operations Manager 2016 and Windows Server 2016? If so you won’t want to miss the one-time webinar featuring Wally Mead, Mick Talbott and some slacker who says he knows a few things about Operations Manager J On Thursday December 8th, we will be…
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