While we are now all used to the shift to remote work due to COVID, we are now also looking at an additional shift where employees are voluntarily leaving their jobs (primarily in the United States). These shifts are resulting in a world where it is not enough to provide employees with a job. Large…
Late last year, I spent some quality time attending the 1E Work from Anywhere (WFA) conference. I was pleasantly surprised to learn a lot about two ideas that I had not focused on an employee’s digital experience and problem hunting. Coming from a background in monitoring and then shifting into automation, this topic combined both…
At a recent SCOM event (SCOMathon), I had the opportunity to learn about Nathan Gau’s security management pack for SCOM. I immediately realized what I’m sure Nathan had all along – that the information available in this pack could be invaluable in Azure Sentinel. So, during (and after) this event, I reached out to Nathan…
As part of my off-hours home automation work for myself and my neighbors, I found it highly annoying that there isn’t an easy way to shut down either a Google Home device or an Amazon Echo device. These devices are designed to listen for keywords to activate, but there are times that you don’t need…
Monitoring the health of physical or virtual systems should focus on four key pillars: Availability, Performance, Security, and Configuration (please note, this is a concept that I have shamelessly stolen from my experiences working with System Center Operations Manager for more than a decade). Availability focuses on the system being able to be accessible and…
Solutions were a part of OMS and available within Log Analytics that provided pre-built visualizations for data in Log Analytics. These were moved into Azure Monitor a while back (Monitoring solutions in Azure Monitor – Azure Monitor | Microsoft Docs). Since that point in time, Microsoft has shifted focus towards Insights and Workbooks. It appears…
Recently I was working with a customer who was interested in developing alert queries similar to those built-in with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). We started with the development of a low disk space condition. For those not familiar with how SCOM handles alerting for low disk space conditions check out Kevin’s blog post: How Logical…
I have been spending some quality time working with the new SquaredUp Azure solution and I ran into an area of the product that is extremely powerful but appears to be less than fully documented. This blog post will showcase three different configurations that I have been using to make the Logs (Grid) view more…
Welcome to the “Introducing” series (check here for the full list of blog posts in this series). In the previous blog post, we introduced the Azure Marketplace. In this blog post, we Azure Resource Manager (also known as ARM). We have a special guest author for this blog post, Steve Buchanan! Steve is a Microsoft Azure MVP…
Welcome to the “Introducing” series (check here for the full list of blog posts in this series). In the previous blog post, we introduced Azure Sentinel. In this blog post, we will introduce the Azure Marketplace. What is the Azure Marketplace? The Azure Marketplace provides a way to find, try out and purchase applications and services that run…
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