You may have heard the saying that “today, every company is a software company.” In other words, we rely on IT folks to do more than just keep our digital systems up and running. Now they play a big part in helping to grow the business and fend off digital disruption. But keeping up with…
Many customers we talk to concerning Azure are not aware of a feature offered by Microsoft that can be used to save money on Azure consumption. Azure Auto-Shutdown of resources can be used to help customers do the following: -Select an optimal time, like after hours, to automatically shut down VM’s -Scale up and scale…
This seemed like an interesting scenario, so I thought I’d post how to do it. That said, you should not do it, as it is highly impractical. Why would you connect to a data model in Power BI Desktop from Tableau Desktop? I imagine you might need a proof-of-concept leveraging a complex DAX calculation…
I have met with thousands of customers over the years who all faced the same dilemma. What do they do with their legacy servers when they reach the end of life? There are three options: 1. They could upgrade the latest version 2. Do nothing 3. Purchase a custom extended support agreement. Upgrading to the…
The Y2K Event of this decade? GDPR’s hype looked a lot like the millennium cyber-clock meltdown, according to some. But here’s a key difference: GDPR has actually spurred immediate, tangible changes to our global business landscape. Check out some of the aftermath following GDPR’s enforcement date, May 25, 2018. The positive: 1. Standardizing higher standards:…
The flow of updates coming into System Center Configuration Manager is greater than ever. At times it may seem overwhelming to administrators, and the recent announcement by Microsoft that Configuration Manager current branch 1806 is released to the public, is no different. One of the improvements focuses on the Office 365 Installer feature. The Office…
This blog post series will cover two approaches which can be used to help to customize how alerts are formatted when they come from Azure Monitor for Log Analytics queries. For this first blog post we will take a simple approach to making these alerts more useful – cleaning up the underlying query. In Azure…
Recently Microsoft announced that they will be fully moving the OMS portal into the Azure portal and that the current OMS mobile will be deprecated as well. (If you are interested there is an open area for feedback on this topic available here). One of the side-benefits of the OMS portal was that once you…
Customers in Azure are starting to understand the cost of the unknown with regards to the cloud, however, they still have some questions about Azure. The known quantities — VM’s Storage, Networking, etc. — are easy to understand and monitor, but there are many unknowns questions: Who has the ability to spin up servers in…
A colleague of mine recently reached out to me to ask for a query which would display key performance counters for each known server (items like CPU, free disk space, free memory, total memory). In the first blog post of this series we created a pretty simple query to make that happen but the query…
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