I previously wrote a blog on how to get a full license audit (including service status) for each user in Office 365. It is useful for substantial number of users, but not very practical when you want to check a single user quickly. I wrote a new script that will check a single user and…
Somewhere during the thousands of Business Intelligence demos I’ve done over the years, I realized that customers where confusing reporting and self-service BI. The reason is that reporting solutions started to have more and more high end visuals (think dashboards) and customers wanted more interaction with those dashboards. Therefore, I developed this simple strategy to…
When it comes to selecting an ideal cloud provider for your government agency, there’s a lot more than personal preference at stake. Your cloud platform’s ability to help meet airtight compliance and security standards can mean the difference between “mission accomplished” and utter chaos. Microsoft says it best: “Not all clouds are created equal.” They’ve…
Over the last decade I have been blessed to get to know a lot of the community leaders around the System Center and now Cloud and Datacenter management space (many of these were people who I met before they were recognized as MVP’s by Microsoft). Today as I look forward I am seeing people who…
With the rise of chat based team applications, why do portals still matter? Many of us have the latest apps on our phones and desktops that allow a level of interactive communication with our teams like never before. So when and why should we engage with content on a “traditional” employee portal? Team apps are…
I have met and sold to hundreds of Chief Information Officer’s over my 27 years of technology sales. I have noticed a pattern on the types of CIO’s and how they operate their business. I can characterize those styles as the following: 1) Slow Adopter 2) Pacer 3) Prodigy. I realize this is an over…
I speak with a lot of customers about digital transformation who choose to start their journey by focusing on their intranet, sometimes with a demo our intranet solution, Fuse. Often, the real starting point for the conversation is less about the solution I am demoing and more about the employee data needed to create a…
Microsoft Flow offers solutions to a variety of problems which had historically not been very easy to solve. At MMS this year, Donnie Taylor and I co-presented on a topic where one of the things that we showed with Flow was how to send an email to SCOM using Flow! You can create your own…
[Update 11/29/2017: The query example in this blog post has been updated to the new query language for Log Analytics] In March of this year, Wei released a great pre-built solution which provides visualization for how much data you are sending to a free-tier OMS workspace. If you haven’t already downloaded this solution or checked…
Late last year I released an OMS solution which provided performance monitoring for Windows Server and Client operating systems. I received some good feedback on this solution that it would be useful to also visualize Linux information in the same solution. So, without further introduction welcome to the Windows and Unix system performance solution for…
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