The Run Scripts feature in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager was added as a preview feature in build 1706. It was officially released as of build 1802. What does it do? The Run Scripts feature allows running of PowerShell scripts on remote devices in real time, rather than having to prepare a Package or Application,…
Due to change in PKI Infrastructure – adding new two tire Certificate Authority (CA) with SHA256 (SHA2) certificate algorithms to replace an old single root CA with SHA1 certificate algorithm – the Lync Server 2013 pool in production environment require to be replace existing default certificate as well as OAuth certificate before old single root…
In this blog post we will show how you can effectively debug sub-queries used in assembling more complex queries in Log Analytics. For this blog post I’ll work on a reverse of the original blog post concept. In the first blog post we wrote a query to determine if it makes sense to open the…
The data ingestion API’s have made it really easy to get data into Log Analytics, but they still require a little bit of coding knowledge. Or it used to take a bit of coding knowledge – not anymore! This blog post will give the steps required to make a drop dead simple method to send…
More and more organizations are implementing Configuration Manager with PKI (HTTPS) enabled. Recently, I worked with a customer who planned to do just that (OS Deployment with PKI). Initially we set up the site without any certificates installed because the PKI Implementation within the domain was not yet completed. Once it was complete, we changed…
I was recently approached by one of our most respected account executives to perform a half hour class at the Texas Government Data Forum, upcoming in late June. I am to deliver a breakout session entitled “Optimizing Program Enrollment with Machine Learning “. In preparing the session, the State listed desirable topics to cover, including…
It’s been a very long week ushering in the infamous and inevitable May 25th GDPR enforcement go-live date. I’ve been calling this day “MayDay”. May 25th 2018 is going to feel like a Y2K moment to me, all over again. We worked very hard over many months to complete all the code rewrites, patches, checklists, and…
Catapult’s Spyglass security team sees this a lot, and that is, prospective clients with too few resources just trying to keep up: managing many disparate security and monitoring tools, trying to respond to compliance audits, management inquiries, as well as incidents, and trying to move their security posture forward (even if slightly). The operative word…
Overview/ Intro Recently, I’ve had a few customers who use full disk encryption from Symantec (Symantec PGP, Symantec Endpoint Encryption, or Symantec Desktop Encryption) on client computers instead of Microsoft BitLocker. “Why?”… well… it’s most likely that they have a really good Symantec sales rep. Either that or they implemented prior to BitLocker being…
It’s easy to visualize performance information in Log Analytics, but how can you create indicate the trend of these counters? This blog post will showcase how the Linear Regression functionality can be used in Log Analytics to provide a trend line as one example for this functionality. This blog post will show: How Server performance…
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