This is the third in a four blog post series focusing on how to monitor and visualize SQL servers in your environment using Microsoft technologies. These post topic include: Part 1: Monitoring & Visualizing SQL Server using System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 Part 2: Monitoring & Visualizing SQL Server using 3rd party dashboard solutions…
There have been significant enhancements which have been made in the area of visualization of SQL server and in custom dashboard creation as a result. Let’s start with a teaser of what is available as of the end of this blog post… How about a custom dashboard showcasing IIS information using the new SQL dashboard…
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One of the roadblocks for many of Catapult’s clients is the fear of the unknown when it comes to security in a cloud deployment. When you’re running your systems on-premises, it’s fairly easy to control the unknowns from a security perspective; lock down your firewall and control ingress and egress points. How do you accomplish…
If you are trying to use the Microsoft provided step by step for AWS SSO, there are several major issues or omissions with the document. The original can be found here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-saas-amazon-web-service/ First as an omission or potential change since the document was written, when assigning a Role, it will also ask you to…
Here is a nice pattern for biding data to you HTML that is good to follow if you want to keep your HTML clean and simple. So you have a table that you are populating with values that you are getting form the server. Your table may look something like this: And your code may…
Last week we talked about the end user as the customer for our Intranet and I proposed that we look at them more as product than as customer. To recap, our definition of a customer is: someone that buys or pays, for a product or service. So, let’s look at another potential customer…the Executives or the…
I’m excited to say that I will be doing my first presentation for the WMUG (Windows Management User Group Netherlands) on the 23rd of this month. [This is causing me some serious flashbacks to my visit to the Netherlands (and the rest of the SCU Europe tour)]: If you want to learn more about what…
Technical Preview 3 is now available for both Windows Server 2016 and System Center vNext. This blog post will showcase a method to use Azure IaaS to augment your existing monitoring environment allowing you to test functionality in the new version while maintaining your on-prem monitoring solution. I am using a multihomed configuration to allow…
Your Corporate Identity is no longer in control, as a matter of fact, it’s stampeding towards a cliff. No, I am not referring to branding, viral marketing or even the advent of social media snafus, instead, I’m talking about accounts for your users and using that as a benchmark, IT no longer has direct control…
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