Environmental Deployment and Secure Configuration with Release Manager 3.0
Using Visual Studio Team Service’s automated build system empowers projects with simplified and powerful automation for build, test, and deploying…
Migration of Azure ASM VM to ARM using PowerShell in 5 steps
As you know, Microsoft is recommending the newer Azure Resource Manager (ARM) as the default environment for Azure. Many of…
The Cloud Whisperers Episode 1 – Third Party Integreated App Ransomware Exploit
I blogged about this recently (here), but our first episode of The Cloud Whisperers is up and you can hear…
Should you upgrade your SharePoint Intranet
Recently I saw a good article making that case that now is the time to upgrade your SharePoint. One of…
Enable and Integrate Intel Active Management Technology with AD and ConfigMgr
Sometimes, as ConfigMgr admins we need more than just the built in tools provided out of the box. Specifically, the…
The Caveats of ConfigMgr Collection Refresh
Collections. They’re one of the base components of a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr for short) environment and they…
Techniques to make Azure Monitor alerts from Log Analytics more useful: Creating custom alerts with Azure Automation
In the first blog post of this series we showed how you can make your alerts more useful by cleaning…
How to re-write Log Analytics records in Flow
While I was working on an updated Flow I ran into a challenge where data which isn’t regularly written to Log…
Office 365, Retention Policies, and Deleted Users
With the creation of O365 scoped Retention Policies its important to understand how policies that “Retain” data actually work.
QuickTricks: Finding a specific string in any tables in a Log Analytics workspace or where does the Upgrade Readiness solution store your user changes
Recently I was working with a colleague and we were trying to track down where specific data had been stored…