Microsoft Data Insights Summit session review: Will Thompson’s “15 Weird Tricks” Power BI Desktop session
This post is a quick review of Will Thompson’s “Create Impactful Reports with Power BI Desktop” session from the 2016…
Don’t be the admin who cried Alarm!
Have you ever felt like you could be the boy who cried wolf when you are doing your daily work…
Microsoft kicks off Power BI’s sophomore year at the “Data Insights Summit” 2016
Microsoft hosted a “Data Insights Summit” event in Bellevue, Washington on March 22 and 23rd, 2016, and videos of the…
Using Power BI and OMS to visualize event and alert information
[Updated 11/29/2017: for the new query language for Log Analytics] In the first blog post of this series we discussed…
Operations Manager and the psychic network
What in the world does Operations Manager have to do with the psychic network? Let me tell you about it……
Using Power BI and OMS to visualize performance information
[Updated 11/29/2017: for the new query language for Log Analytics] In the previous blog post we reviewed how OMS can…
Using Power BI and OMS for security dashboards and reports
[Updated 11/29/2017: With the release of the new query language and the changes to how data is sent to Power…
Using Azure Alert Rules in Azure to notify on key performance indicators
There are a variety of methods available to provide you with alerting on key performance indicators (KPI’s) for your servers.…
When VMware started making physical computers…
Ok, so that’s a bit misleading. The actual issue is that ConfigMgr’s detection routine for some virtual machines is broken. …
#DataDriven: Microsoft Announces SQL Server 2016
Database professionals from all over the world (myself included), were sitting on the edge of their seats as Microsoft officially…