One of the most common requests in the world of monitoring is to be alerted before a disk runs out of space. In SCOM we can alert when a disk is getting low on space and we can provide reports or dashboards which provide insights into what disks are getting low on space. But what…
Welcome to the “Introducing” series! Today we will do an introduction to the first of three Microsoft Clouds. The first part of this series introduced IT organizations and what they do (providing applications and systems required for a company to function). The second part of the series introduced Cloud Computing and compared it with On-Premises Computing. This blog…
Welcome to the “Introducing” series. Today we will do a quick visit comparing traditional on-premises (on-prem) computing with Cloud computing. The first part of this series introduced IT organizations and what they do which is to provide applications and systems required for the company to function. What is traditional on-premises (on-prem) computing? Companies need…
Welcome to the “Introducing” series. Today we will provide a high-level explanation of what Information Technology (IT) does for an organization. In my nearly 30 years working in Information Technology (IT) I have worked in a lot of different capacities including in-house as an IT director and as a consultant providing technical assistance for a…
Welcome to the “Introducing Series”! Who am I? My name is Cameron Fuller, I have been in IT for nearly 30 years and I have been a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP for 13 years and I work for Catapult Systems as a Director for Automation Solutions. I have co-authored several books, written technical articles,…
Back in my SCOM days, we had a database and a data warehouse. The database held live data and the data warehouse contained longer term data. The data warehouse contained aggregates of the data so that the data would not be too large to store. In Log Analytics we can have both the data itself…
As part of the process to simplify the logic of my Logic App, one of the steps was to start to convert existing Logic Apps into nested Logic App’s so that they can be called as a module which performs a specific purpose. In this case I am converting the Logic App which I wrote…
As part of a process I am going through to re-platform my logic for the eternal question “should we open the windows” I have begun migrating all automation into Logic Apps. For background, I am gathering information on the current weather, weather forecast and Nest thermostat information to make decisions on whether the windows should…
In Log Analytics we can quickly export to Power BI just by running an Export to Power BI (M Query). However, if you are like me, you may not do a good job of keeping track of all of the queries that you write – especially if they are going to be used somewhere else…
One of my favorite things to do as a Microsoft MVP is to present at user group meetings. For those who haven’t been involved in user groups yet, they are generally a geographically based group of people with a common interest – in this case Microsoft technology. User groups give you a chance to have…
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