For a little while now Microsoft has had an Update management solution which provides one stop visualization for Windows and Linux patch status. They recently added a very exciting feature of this solution which actually performs the patch management on your systems! For details on this solution including what it visualizes and how as well…
[Update 11/29/2017: The new query language change for Log Analytics has altered this solution. For details on the new solution see the post at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2017/11/28/updating-the-server-and-client-performance-solution-to-the-new-query-language/] Are you looking for a way to use OMS to give you performance information? Check out this pre-built solution which you can have running in your environment in less than 5…
I am excited to announce that bloggers from Catapult systems have joined the ranks of other excellent guest bloggers on the TechNet blogs! Matthew Dowst and I teamed up to write a blog post on how to avoid reinventing the wheel when you are using Azure Automation. This is available at: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2016/11/08/part-3-how-to-avoid-reinventing-the-wheel-in-azure-automation/ Two of three…
Mid-November I’m going to be hitting the road to visit some of my favorite sections of the western US. So if you are in Bellevue, Phoenix, or Minneapolis I will be in your neck of the woods very soon! On Monday November 14th, I will be joining Wally Mead discussing what’s new in System Center…
How can you perform a more complicated automation with Microsoft Flow? This example will show how you can use multiple conditions to cause Flow to perform a variety of actions based on what you choose in an approval email. Background on Flow: A while back I created an automation with Flow which creates a tweet…
Are you interested in learning what’s new in the constantly evolving world of automation? Come and join us at TopGolf in Austin on October 19th to learn more about the landscape of IT automation. Registration is available here, I hope to see you there!
Marnix already beat me to the “What’s new in Operations Manager 2016” answer so for those please go to his blog post at: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2016/10/whats-new-in-scom-2016.html On the OMS side of things, here’s the big announcements that I found out about via Twitter or sessions which were available from live stream: OMS integration with Azure: https://scomanswers.com/2016/09/24/new-oms-health-state-threshold-in-view-designer/ Monitoring…
Microsoft recently released the Log Analytics HTTP Data Collector API which provides a way to send data into Microsoft OMS without requiring an OMS agent. To test this out I decided to start with Stefan’s blog series on how to inject data for stock prices. His blog posts are available at: Using the HTTP OMS…
This Friday the DFWSMUG crew will be meeting to cover both PowerShell and Cloud technologies. Details are below: Donnie Taylor (General Motors Architect – Infrastructure Solutions)Super-Powered PowerShellIn this session, Donnie will go over the recently released PowerShell for Linux, multi-threading for fun and profit, showcase a set of useful modules, and more! Yung…
It’s not often that email actually surprises me – in a good way. But this last weekend it totally did. I was booking a flight for one of the family and after booking it the following email appeared: (Outlook added events from email to your calendar) The email was letting me know that Office 365…
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