Today Microsoft announced a new tool to help with integrating on-premises identities with Azure AD, Azure AD Connect. This tool is a way to get up and running with on-premises AD synchronization with Azure AD quickly. The tool will download and install pre-reqs like .Net Framework, Azure AD PowerShell Modules and Online Services Sign-in Assistant;…
A few weeks ago I used Microsoft Live Writer to create and post a blog article. When I posted it to Catapult’s blog it worked. When I posted it to my personal blog it failed. I won’t discuss Catapult’s setup but my personal blog is WordPress running on Azure websites with ClearDB’s free MySQL database. …
There were a couple of items which I included in the Road to the Cloud webinar that I had not included in the whitepaper which I think will be helpful to the community when it comes to Operations Manager and Azure monitoring. This blog post will cover: How to monitor Azure in Operations Manager What…
I came across an excellent blog article on disk performance testing: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/09/finding-your-san-bottlenecks-with-sqlio/ It walked through using SQLIO to test disk performance. Basically, you just modify the param.txt file like this: D:\testfile.dat 2 0x0 20480 (Where 20480 is a 20gigabyte file that will get created on the D:\ drive) Then you can do a quick 10…
Recently my work notebook crashed. I had to reload it from scratch. After I reloaded it I didn’t have any problems connecting to my home and other wireless networks. When I could connect my notebook to my Windows Phone hotspot my notebook would blucscreen in 5-30 seconds. I encountered this same problem last year and…
The following is a look into the Advisor integration in Operations Manager 2012 R2 in terms of what it adds to Operations Manager for the following: Management Packs Classes Monitors Rules Views Alerts Where is Advisor information stored in the registry? Management Packs: The Advisor management packs are easy to identify using the keyword "Microsoft…
I am trying to keep up with the Office 365 for Business Roadmap, and one thing I noticed today is that the End User Access to the Exchange Online Protection (EOP) Quarantine is now active. This now allows end users to go directly to their quarantine and check for messages that could have been caught.…
Are you looking for a way to quickly remove all management packs that you added on a specific day? The following is what we put together to remove all of the management packs loaded on a specific day. The first PowerShell script lists all management packs which were added on a specific day (7/18/2014…
If you are looking for management packs, there are three ways available to get to them: Use the Operations Manager console, Administration pane, Management Packs and install new management packs. Use the System Center online catalog (available at http://tinyurl.com/OMMPS) Use the MP wiki (available at http://tinyurl.com/OMMPWIKI) However, each of these approaches only provides the current…
This one’s always a silly little configuration problem, but there’s a quick and easy fix: Install the Desktop Experience feature on your SharePoint server. This may require a restart, so plan accordingly. Without this feature installed, you’ll see something like the image below that says: "We’re having a problem opening this location in File…
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