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SCOM – Part 1 Create Excel 2013 PowerView Dashboard

Last week I had to travel to China. So far, I haven’t had any experience with Asian countries nor culture, except of the local Chinese restaurant in Switzerland. What I learned, that there are different ways to visualize common scenarios and how important it is to make the visualization readable and understandable, also for foreigners. […]

SCSM – Get Service Request Object From Any Nested Child Runbook Activity

When you are starting to automate stuff in your cloud environment you probably use SMA for automation and Service Manager to trigger the necessary runbooks in SMA. As this is really great stuff you will start facing many new challenges because you have to script in PowerShell to achieve your goals. Depending on your architecture […]

Azure Functions – Azure Functions Using Hybrid Connections

I had an idea to access an on-premise source like a database or something else via Azure Functions. There other approaches where you could use Logic Apps and the corresponding gateway to access on-premises system data. But using Logic Apps we relay on connectors and actions and are not as free as using Azure Functions […]