SQL Server: NO CURSORS! Even when you absolutely need one.
Let’s face it. We love SQL cursors. At least I do. At least I USED to. Until I started to…
Web.config Transforms for Identity Model
I have been recently tasked with a project that requires ADFS and Azure. I quickly discovered as I started building…
Monitoring Azure in Operations Manager 2012 using the Azure SQL management pack (#SCOM, #SYSCTR, #Azure)
This is the second part of the series introduced at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2013/07/01/monitoring-and-windows-azure-scom-sysctr-azure.aspx. The focus of this blog post is to provide…
July Office 365 International User Meeting Recap
Tuesday the 30th we had our July meeting of the Office 365 International User group. Overall the meeting was good,…
San Antonio Systems Management User Group
Tell your neighbors, tell your friends, hide the kids, and kiss the dog, the inaugural San Antonio Systems Management User…
ReSearch This updates for July 2013
What a great month for ReSearch This and the Operations Manager community! Big updates this month include: The ReSearch This…
The Return of OSD++ and OSD App Tree
Yes, it’s been a long time coming and after some sporadic coding over the past two years, I’m hard at…
Which is the best synthetic web transaction to use in Operations Manager for my requirements? (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
Good news: Today in Operations Manager 2012 with SP1 we have a variety of web synthetic transactions which are available!…
Converting from Federated Users (ADFS Authenticated) To Standard Users and Password Sync
I recently assisted a client converting from using Federated Users that authenticate using ADFS to Standard User with DirSync…
Maintaining Related Data with Entity Framework
Maintaining Related Data with Entity Framework Info from asp.net/mvc tutorial Overview Unfortunately out-of-the-box strongly typed MVC views do not expose relationship…