If you work in the Dallas or San Antonio IT industry and would like to learn more about automation, then here’s your chance to find out! Catapult Systems is hosting events next week in both San Antonio and Dallas to provide you with the chance to hear more about IT automation, to socialize over food…
5 Things Your Employees Wish IT Understood about the Company Portal1) “The majority of employees don’t use the portal.”The last portal got off to a great start, but the content has become stale and obsolete over time. I know we spent a lot of time and money on it, but to be honest, most people…
I am excited to launch a new series of blog posts and videos which will provide information on a variety of automation technologies and give my perspective from having worked with these technologies in my own life and home over a period of time. Technologies in this series will span home automation, personal automation and…
update: 10/11/2017 Made -CSV a switch rather than string update: 6/6/2017 If you want to run this script on Windows 7, you’ll need to install Windows Management Framework 3.0 first. I have a decent sized SSD and found it running low on free space. I thought, “what is taking so much space?” After an unsuccessful internet…
This post is a quick review of Will Thompson’s “Create Impactful Reports with Power BI Desktop” session from the 2016 Data Insights Summit. His alternate title was “15 Weird Tricks That’ll Make Your Reports Awesome.” He committed to posting the workbook he used for his demo, and so he has. The tips and tricks are…
Have you ever felt like you could be the boy who cried wolf when you are doing your daily work as an Operations Manager administrator? You know, that wonderful feeling when you need to go to another group with an alert (or a group of them) and you do not know if they will or…
Microsoft hosted a “Data Insights Summit” event in Bellevue, Washington on March 22 and 23rd, 2016, and videos of the content (but not the PPT slides) are available on Microsoft’s Power BI YouTube Channel. Jessica Cook did a great job of summarizing both days here and here. The YouTube Channel is nicely organized: Keynotes –…
[Updated 11/29/2017: for the new query language for Log Analytics] In the first blog post of this series we discussed how to visualize security information gathered into OMS through Power BI. In the second blog post we showed how performance information gathered into OMS can be visualized through Power BI. In this blog post we…
What in the world does Operations Manager have to do with the psychic network? Let me tell you about it… I was on a client site several years ago and I was called into a meeting with a vendor. The vendor explained that they could send an email which Operations Manager could then respond…
[Updated 11/29/2017: for the new query language for Log Analytics] In the previous blog post we reviewed how OMS can be integrated with Power BI to visualize security information (including how to activate Power BI integration with OMS). In this blog post we will look at how the same concepts can be applied to performance…
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