Top 5 Things IT Should Automate
You may have heard the saying that “today, every company is a software company.” In other words, we rely on…
Azure Auto Shutdown — The Key to Saving Money in Azure
Many customers we talk to concerning Azure are not aware of a feature offered by Microsoft that can be used…
Crossing the Streams: Connecting from Tableau Desktop to a Power BI Desktop Data Model
This seemed like an interesting scenario, so I thought I’d post how to do it. That said, you should…
Microsoft Helping Customers Secure the Future of Windows Server and SQL Server
I have met with thousands of customers over the years who all faced the same dilemma. What do they do…
GDPR compliance: Immediate Fallout
The Y2K Event of this decade? GDPR’s hype looked a lot like the millennium cyber-clock meltdown, according to some. But…
Deploy Office 365 ProPlus with ConfigMgr 1806
The flow of updates coming into System Center Configuration Manager is greater than ever. At times it may seem overwhelming…
Techniques to make Azure Monitor alerts from Log Analytics more useful: Cleaning up the query
This blog post series will cover two approaches which can be used to help to customize how alerts are formatted…
Step-by-step: replacing a Log Analytics mobile solution with Power BI
Recently Microsoft announced that they will be fully moving the OMS portal into the Azure portal and that the current…
Questions about Azure: What is the Cost of “Not Knowing” in Azure?
Customers in Azure are starting to understand the cost of the unknown with regards to the cloud, however, they still…
How to gather anything you want from a system and write it to Log Analytics
A colleague of mine recently reached out to me to ask for a query which would display key performance counters…