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…
I am excited to launch a new series of blog posts and videos which will provide information on a variety of automation technologies and give my perspective from having worked with these technologies in my own life and home over a period of time. Technologies in this series will span home automation, personal automation and…
Have you ever felt like you could be the boy who cried wolf when you are doing your daily work as an Operations Manager administrator? You know, that wonderful feeling when you need to go to another group with an alert (or a group of them) and you do not know if they will or…
[Updated 11/29/2017: for the new query language for Log Analytics] In the first blog post of this series we discussed how to visualize security information gathered into OMS through Power BI. In the second blog post we showed how performance information gathered into OMS can be visualized through Power BI. In this blog post we…
What in the world does Operations Manager have to do with the psychic network? Let me tell you about it… I was on a client site several years ago and I was called into a meeting with a vendor. The vendor explained that they could send an email which Operations Manager could then respond…
[Updated 11/29/2017: for the new query language for Log Analytics] In the previous blog post we reviewed how OMS can be integrated with Power BI to visualize security information (including how to activate Power BI integration with OMS). In this blog post we will look at how the same concepts can be applied to performance…
[Updated 11/29/2017: With the release of the new query language and the changes to how data is sent to Power BI, this blog post is now deprecated.] Microsoft OMS provides an easy to use method to gather security information from a variety of systems into a single repository of information through using the Security solution.…
There are a variety of methods available to provide you with alerting on key performance indicators (KPI’s) for your servers. System Center Operations Manager provides this as built-in functionality (for details see the article available at: http://windowsitpro.com/operations-manager/operations-manager-key-performance-indicators). I also recently completed a blog post series on how to monitor these types of KPI’s using Microsoft…
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