I had the honor of being at the System Center Universe Europe conference last week and it was an incredible experience. As part of SCU I’ve had some great experiences including a couple of opportunities to travel out of the country for SCU. These experiences were blogged at: American Redneck in Asia American Redneck in…
Microsoft’s release of Flow has put Automation as a Service for Microsoft into the mainstream. For background, I have been using Microsoft Flow primarily for social media related tasks. I blogged a while back on how I was using Flow for twitter retweet approvals as an example. I also use Flow to provide retweets with…
I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to be able to return to SCU Europe this year! (for a chuckle about my last visit in October 2013 check out my “American Redneck in Europe” blog post). SCU Europe is a three day event spanning five tracks and is being held this year in Berlin.…
Pokémon Go generated about $35 million in revenue in its first two weeks and raises approximately 1.6 million per day from iPhone users alone. Nintendo’s stock temporarily increased by 25% or about 11 billion dollars. Even with Nintendo only owning 32% of the Pokemon Company who owns the intellectual property rights to this franchise the…
July 2016 may go down in history as the month that Augmented Reality went mainstream. Augmented Reality’s embrace into the mainstream came from an unlikely source – a game called Pokémon Go. This game has been a huge boon to Nintendo who has seen its stock double since the release of the game. In this…
You are facing a technical problem but there doesn’t seem to be an answer. You need to reach out for help, but you don’t know where to start. There are a myriad of different approaches available to try to get help, which should you choose and why? (Forums, Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, books/articles, contacts such…
Recently Microsoft announced the release of their automation tool called Flow to assist with the constant of “Do More with Less”. For an introduction into Flow check this out. To get started with Flow check it out at: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/. Automation is an area of interest for me so I decided to spend some time kicking…
Microsoft OMS provides an excellent best practices analyzer (SQL Assessment) for SQL server which is easy to install and quickly gain insights from for your SQL servers. The top level tile is shown below. This expands into a series of views which show the underlying recommendations based upon various top level areas (Security and Compliance,…
[Update 11/29/2017: The View Designer is now part of the full product and does not need to be enabled with a preview feature. To open the view designer use the Plus symbol on the top left part of the OMS workspace. The remainder of this blog post has been left in place for to show…
If you work in the Dallas or San Antonio IT industry and would like to learn more about automation, then here’s your chance to find out! Catapult Systems is hosting events next week in both San Antonio and Dallas to provide you with the chance to hear more about IT automation, to socialize over food…
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