In August 2017 Microsoft released a new query language for Log Analytics which will be the default query language as of late October (*see the graphic below for the message you get if you haven’t upgraded your workspace yet*). With this change, all blog posts which I have written about Log Analytics prior to that…
A while back I wrote a blog post where I showcased a sample solution which provides visualization of performance for servers (Windows & Linux) and client Operating Systems. Since that blog post was written the query language for Log Analytics has been upgraded. This update changes any pre-built solutions so that they also need to…
A recent customer wanted an automated SSRS Report Email Subscription anytime a new deployment was created. I’d been pondering how do accomplish that for some time, but finally got a catalyst and a bit of time. I found a PowerShell script by George Walkey to get started with which is hosted on his GitHub repo…
Office 365 Enterprise E5 Explained Over the past year or so Microsoft has extended their Office 365’s Enterprise licensing offerings to include new features, such as Skype for Business Dial-in Conferencing and Meeting Broadcast, Power BI Pro, Delve Analytics, and advanced security and compliance features, such as Advanced eDiscovery, Advanced Security Management, Advanced Threat Protection,…
This post should serve to inform you as a manager or executive what to expect from analysis presented in Microsoft Power BI. This primarily non-technical post will cover terminology, design, visuals, data connections and updates, and user empowerment. Terminology Desktop, Service, Mobile App: The Power BI product has three primary components: Desktop, Service and…
An Interview with Michael Kennedy, Director of Public Sector Cloud Strategy and Sales, Catapult Catapult’s own Michael Kennedy was recently featured in Govloop’s guide to harnessing a digital workplace strategy. Below is an excerpt of his interview: The public sector is experiencing an unprecedented wave of change. Agencies must select from a long list of…
In Log Analytics you can create an alert which runs on a specific schedule frequency which will alert when the search query matches the criteria that you specify. That alert can send an email, activate a webhook, activate a runbook or activate an ITSM Action (an example of this configuration is shown below). What this…
Forward Often, we hear security professionals talk about the application of “People, Process, and Products” as being the critical tenets of a good security program. While this overall statement is accurate, I would suggest there are a few additional P(s) that we could add to the fold, which I believe are crucial to effectively…
One of the challenges in Log Analytics is how to effectively work with more powerful and longer Log Analytics queries which are available with the new query language. To edit longer queries we can open them with the Azure Log Analytics console (shown below), however this console takes and represents the query transferred from the…
Preface: This blog is a recast of an article that I wrote and posted on Linked-in in January 2017. I recall an interesting and informative article written by Paul Mazzucco, CTO at TierPoint, on Radware’s blog entitled, “See Through the DDOS Smoke-Screen to Protect Sensitive Data”. The article raises an interesting revisit to an…
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