Sample OMS solution and Power BI Report for weather visualization

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…

The Server (and client) Performance Solution for OMS

[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…

Catapult guest blogging on TechNet blogs!

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…

What I learned about Operations Manager 2016 and OMS by (not) attending Ignite

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…