I’m in San Antonio today for the San Antonio user group meeting which is occurring at the Microsoft office on Sonterra Boulevard (details below): I’m glad to be presenting on “What’s new in the world of Microsoft monitoring” and to be sharing the stage for presentations with Microsoft Field Engineer Steve Rachui and 1E as…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you know that PowerShell is the future for Microsoft. With products like Service Manager Automation and Azure Automation, a solid PowerShell foundation will be required for a lot of tasks. When System Center 2012 was released the Service Manager PowerShell modules received a…
System Center Universe 2015 APAC videos are now available on Channel 9! These include sessions by Raymond Chou, Alec King, Symon Perriman, Chris Ross, Pete Zerger, Marcel Zehner, Mike Resseler, Vincent de Vries and lots of other great speakers! Check it out the 22 SCU 2015 APAC videos at https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/SCUAPAC2015
I was working at a client migrating some MOSS 2007 servers from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008R2 and ran into an odd issue with a custom user control they were using for a Captcha. When you tried to access the control and its associated graphics in the _controltemplates library you would get a 403 Access…
Note: This post assumes you’re like most of my clients and no longer have your Push certificate request file. If you are on Windows, you will likely need both IE and Chrome as Chrome no longer supports Silverlight, but IE does not support Apple’s JSON uploader. Log into manage.microsoft.com with your Intune administrator credentials…
With Microsoft so focused on the cloud, it causes concerns about the future of technologies which many of us live and breathe on a daily basis. To tackle this topic I have written a whitepaper which looks at Operations Manager and its futures from a variety of angles to answer the question: “Is Operations Manager…
It appears that the Azure Automation cmdlet Start-AzureAutomationRunbook, in the Azure PowerShell module v0.9.3, has been updated to include a new parameter named RunOn. This parameter can be used to execute a runbook on a Hybrid Worker. The parameter is not yet listed on TechNet, or with the Get-Help command. However, by running Get-Command against the cmdlet you can…
When I moved away from Chicago, one of the things I had to leave was the Chicago Office 365 User Group. While deeply saddened about this departure, I was excited to start my new opportunity in Phoenix with Catapult Systems. I took on the role of SharePoint Local Practice Lead (LPL) for Catapult’s Phoenix office.…
I’ve been installing a few lab and production ConfigMgr environments recently and found a little quirk with the versioning to go along with the service pack madness / confusion of the 2012 SP2 / 2012 R2 SP1 release. Here’s the scoop: After installing ConfigMgr 2012 SP2 as a new / fresh install, how do you…
We’ll keep this one short and sweet. Jeff Jones (@spjeff) wrote a nice PowerShell script to generate an HTML-based report detailing SharePoint Online site collection storage quotas and usage. You can view his original script and his post on it here: http://www.spjeff.com/2015/05/18/office-365-monitor-site-collection-storage-ps1-daily-email/. This is great for on-prem scenarios, but I’ve been doing a lot in…
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