For a little while now Microsoft has had an Update management solution which provides one stop visualization for Windows and Linux patch status. They recently added a very exciting feature of this solution which actually performs the patch management on your systems! For details on this solution including what it visualizes and how as well…
The new document library experience in SharePoint Online is simple, streamlined, and easy to use. Modern document libraries combine the power of SharePoint with OneDrive usability. They provide a consistent user experience across OneDrive, OneDrive for Business (Office 365), and document library and hence provides a standard way of creating folders and uploading files. Modern…
[Update 11/29/2017: The new query language change for Log Analytics has altered this solution. For details on the new solution see the post at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2017/11/28/updating-the-server-and-client-performance-solution-to-the-new-query-language/] Are you looking for a way to use OMS to give you performance information? Check out this pre-built solution which you can have running in your environment in less than 5…
I am excited to announce that bloggers from Catapult systems have joined the ranks of other excellent guest bloggers on the TechNet blogs! Matthew Dowst and I teamed up to write a blog post on how to avoid reinventing the wheel when you are using Azure Automation. This is available at: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2016/11/08/part-3-how-to-avoid-reinventing-the-wheel-in-azure-automation/ Two of three…
I won’t be surprised if this is one of those things that everyone knows, but it wasn’t intuitive to me the first time. Say you just created a new Azure tenant foo with a credential called admin, and you’d like to grant permissions in that new tenant’s Active Directory to credentials from the Active Directory…
At the end of 2014, Microsoft released a cool new feature in Office 365 called Clutter. Clutter learns from your actions to determine the messages you are likely to ignore. As less important messages arrive, they are automatically moved to the Clutter folder. Clutter does this by leveraging Office Graph’s sophisticated machine learning techniques to…
Mid-November I’m going to be hitting the road to visit some of my favorite sections of the western US. So if you are in Bellevue, Phoenix, or Minneapolis I will be in your neck of the woods very soon! On Monday November 14th, I will be joining Wally Mead discussing what’s new in System Center…
There is a tool we like to use for Office 365 Migrations from BitTitan called Migration Wiz. Customers usually purchase it for the workload of moving their company Gmail to Office 365, but it also handles the workloads of moving documents from Google Drives to SharePoint and One Drive. I engaged their Premium Support today…
As the CTO for a technology consulting services company and Professor of a cloud solutions course at the University of Houston the number one cloud question I get asked is, “Is the cloud secure?” Once I prove that the cloud is as secure as you need it to be the next question that gets asked is “where do I start?” Before I…
In this web log, I’ll share my experience with the State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) Business Analytics and Reporting (BAR) pilot. During this pilot, Catapult Systems worked with the DIR and five other Texas state agencies to explore their data to gain insights from it. In so doing we determined the suitability…
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