Microsoft has recently launch a new tool, Azure AD Connect, to synchronize your on-premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory. This new tool will become a one-stop shop for all on-premises and Azure synchronization. This new tool will replace DirSync and AADSync. It’s touted as a simple, fast & lightweight solution. This article will step…
Yesterday I was happy to see that Microsoft has made the Active Directory Intelligence Pack is now available for Azure Operational Insights! To add this feature, log into Azure OpsInsights (https://preview.opinsights.azure.com) and add the AD Assessment Intelligence Pack (shown below). Adding this pack in Azure OpsInsights adds the following management pack(s) to Operations Manager: Afterthe…
Are you looking for an inexpensive way to send SMS text messages and voice phone calls from Operations Manager 2012 without a modem? Check out this solution using PowerShell and Twilio! A former co-worked of mine with a passion for automation has started his own site focusing on the power of automation through PowerShell, System…
All of the presentations and PowerPoint decks from SCU 2015 are now online and available at: SCU 2015 Video Playlist SCU 2015 PowerPoint Presentations These videos and the PowerPoint presentations plus the SCU Network recordings (and the SCU 2013 videos and presentations) are available at: http://systemcenteruniverse.com/presentations.htm
Thank you to those who attended the "Techniques to Synchronize Your Management Groups" session! If you missed it, here’s the recording of the presentation and a couple of relevant links to look into: Presentation recording: http://www.silect.com/downloads/Videos/MPStudio/20150121_ManagementGroupCompareWebinar.wmv A five minute recording on synchronizing management groups using MP Studio: How to Synchronize Management Groups in MP…
Scenario I ran into this when deploying an event receiver that would update the master page of all sites (SPWeb objects) when activated in a particular site collection (SPSite object). Accessing referenced file from is not allowed because the reference is outside of the App Web. Problem The problem is described and resolved here: http://mctalex.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/powershell-fix-for-app-master-problem.html.…
In this example, I am combining the data from three tables. Two of the tables have different columns and no relation or join. I am managing a soccer team. I have a list of weeks in the soccer season. And I also have a list of players. In addition, I also have a list of…
Even when you spend years working on a specific technology occasionally you are pleasantly surprised to find out that something already exists in the product but you are unaware of it. At the MVP summit one discussion that we had was how we were working on a method in PowerShell to populate groups for objects…
A while back I was struck for an idea for a song which eventually evolved into a blog post called "The top 6 ways to lose your job as an IT consultant". I kept feeling however that this would actually make a pretty darn good song so I am totally excited to say that the…
Want to keep the SCU party going? Then join us on February 5th for a user group meeting like no other. We have a jammed packed agenda featuring multiple MVP’s and Subject Matter Experts, from around the globe. There will be presentations by Dieter Wijckmans, Maarten Goet, Ronny de Jong, Wally Mead, Chris Ross, and Kirk Munro.…
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