My son (who you may remember from our video on Operations Manager, Live Maps & Kinect) and I teamed up again recently to gather information on what accounts hackers are using when attempting to brute force attack systems. To do this we configured a honeypot server with the proper level of auditing, combined with a…
If you are interested in System Center it is equally exciting to how it sounds. MMS is returning and it’s returning very soon! MMS returns to the Mall of America on May 16th (pre-con day) through the 19th so we are just under two months away from one of the best System Center focused events…
[Updated 11/29/2017: for the new query language for Log Analytics] I have written several blog posts to assist with providing methods to visualize server health in Microsoft OMS (www.microsoft.com/oms). These include: What could server health monitoring look like in OMS? Using OMS to visualize server health based on processor utilization Using OMS to visualize server…
[Updated 11/29/2017: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new query language for Log Analytics. For a good example of how we are now visualizing Server performance in OMS see this blog post. Also note that the “My Dashboard” functionality referenced in this blog post is now legacy.] I have written several blog…
It’s hard for me to believe it at times, but I have been with Catapult Systems for almost a decade now (I guess time does fly when you are having fun). In the time that I have been with Catapult I have held a variety of titles, roles and honors. I started my career with…
I was in communication with one of my colleagues recently and heard about a lot of exciting stuff which is coming to System Center Universe APAC. Here’s some of the highlights for this upcoming event! The big change this year is the addition of Australia as a location for SCU! SCU APAC will have a…
The Security and Audit solution in OMS provides some incredible information including account authentications, logon failures, event log cleanings, suspicious executables and more. These counters also provide trend information (see the accounts authenticated example below where the value is 19 and the trend is downward 4). This solution allows you to dig into all of…
In the wonderful world of Information Technology we are constantly faced with the struggle to do more for the business with less (people, time and money). In the SCU 2016 presentation where we announced Launch and discussed strategies for how to win in a “do more with less” IT world, we covered a variety of…
[Update 11/29/2017: This blog post series has been superseded by a solution built to visualize server and client information which is available at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2017/11/28/updating-the-server-and-client-performance-solution-to-the-new-query-language/. Please note that query examples in this deprecated blog post are for the old query language and will not work in the current query language.] This blog post is part of a…
[Update 11/29/2017: This blog post series has been superseded by a solution built to visualize server and client information which is available at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2017/11/28/updating-the-server-and-client-performance-solution-to-the-new-query-language/. Please note that query examples in this deprecated blog post are for the old query language and will not work in the current query language.] This blog post is part of a…
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