A couple of weeks ago at the Ignite conference in Atlanta, Microsoft announced an upgrade to the underlying software defined network (SDN) infrastructure which powers the Azure public cloud – an upgrade which makes Azure the fastest and most Artificial Intelligence-optimized network platform amongst cloud providers. Some time ago in what was known as ‘Project…
I recently ran into a situation where I had created some custom Azure Automation modules, and I wanted to be able to make a backup of all of them to a centralized location. Since Azure Automation does not have any source control integration for the assets I decided I needed to come up with a…
I was recently attempting to install SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2016 and the install kept hanging at the step “Install_sqlncli_Cpu64_Action: PublishProduct. Publishing product information.” After checking the Summary.txt log in the folder “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Setup Bootstrap\Log”, I noticed that every feature failed with the same details: Feature: Management Tools – Complete Status:…
How can you perform a more complicated automation with Microsoft Flow? This example will show how you can use multiple conditions to cause Flow to perform a variety of actions based on what you choose in an approval email. Background on Flow: A while back I created an automation with Flow which creates a tweet…
Good spelling is an important, and sometimes overlooked, aspect of providing your users and customers a professional IT Service Management experience. Nothing is more embarrassing than going back to look at the Request Offering or Email Template, sometimes months after it has been in production, and finding a misspelled word. So to help avoid situations…
Are you interested in learning what’s new in the constantly evolving world of automation? Come and join us at TopGolf in Austin on October 19th to learn more about the landscape of IT automation. Registration is available here, I hope to see you there!
Marnix already beat me to the “What’s new in Operations Manager 2016” answer so for those please go to his blog post at: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2016/10/whats-new-in-scom-2016.html On the OMS side of things, here’s the big announcements that I found out about via Twitter or sessions which were available from live stream: OMS integration with Azure: https://scomanswers.com/2016/09/24/new-oms-health-state-threshold-in-view-designer/ Monitoring…
Microsoft recently released the Log Analytics HTTP Data Collector API which provides a way to send data into Microsoft OMS without requiring an OMS agent. To test this out I decided to start with Stefan’s blog series on how to inject data for stock prices. His blog posts are available at: Using the HTTP OMS…
Several ConfigMgr scenarios require that the content Source Path be changed. This typically includes migrating to a new ConfigMgr environment (2007 to 2012, 2012 to Current Branch, etc.), and simply moving the source content to a new location such as a DFS Share or low-speed NAS device. Updating the Source Path can be done manually…
This Friday the DFWSMUG crew will be meeting to cover both PowerShell and Cloud technologies. Details are below: Donnie Taylor (General Motors Architect – Infrastructure Solutions)Super-Powered PowerShellIn this session, Donnie will go over the recently released PowerShell for Linux, multi-threading for fun and profit, showcase a set of useful modules, and more! Yung Chou…
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