[Updated 11/29/2017: With the release of the new query language and the changes to how data is sent to Power BI, this blog post is now deprecated.] Microsoft OMS provides an easy to use method to gather security information from a variety of systems into a single repository of information through using the Security solution.…
There are a variety of methods available to provide you with alerting on key performance indicators (KPI’s) for your servers. System Center Operations Manager provides this as built-in functionality (for details see the article available at: http://windowsitpro.com/operations-manager/operations-manager-key-performance-indicators). I also recently completed a blog post series on how to monitor these types of KPI’s using Microsoft…
Ok, so that’s a bit misleading. The actual issue is that ConfigMgr’s detection routine for some virtual machines is broken. This apparently started around May 2014 but I noticed it for the first time on a new ConfigMgr v1511 installation. Nicolas Pilon of System Center Dudes has a great technical write up on the issue:…
Database professionals from all over the world (myself included), were sitting on the edge of their seats as Microsoft officially announced SQL Server 2016 at their “Data Driven” event in New York City. I watched online, eagerly anticipating how much detail they would share about the latest release…and apart from not revealing the exact release date…
My son (who you may remember from our video on Operations Manager, Live Maps & Kinect) and I teamed up again recently to gather information on what accounts hackers are using when attempting to brute force attack systems. To do this we configured a honeypot server with the proper level of auditing, combined with a…
If you are interested in System Center it is equally exciting to how it sounds. MMS is returning and it’s returning very soon! MMS returns to the Mall of America on May 16th (pre-con day) through the 19th so we are just under two months away from one of the best System Center focused events…
[Updated 11/29/2017: for the new query language for Log Analytics] I have written several blog posts to assist with providing methods to visualize server health in Microsoft OMS (www.microsoft.com/oms). These include: What could server health monitoring look like in OMS? Using OMS to visualize server health based on processor utilization Using OMS to visualize server…
We’ve got a nice little AWS CloudFormation template that builds out a SharePoint 2013 Enterprise farm, configures everything nicely, then deploys a custom code solution right over the top of that. We’re using public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in the template and all has been going well. Then, starting this week, SharePoint 2013 no longer…
[Updated 11/29/2017: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new query language for Log Analytics. For a good example of how we are now visualizing Server performance in OMS see this blog post. Also note that the “My Dashboard” functionality referenced in this blog post is now legacy.] I have written several blog…
It’s hard for me to believe it at times, but I have been with Catapult Systems for almost a decade now (I guess time does fly when you are having fun). In the time that I have been with Catapult I have held a variety of titles, roles and honors. I started my career with…
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