Many of you know Squared Up for their powerful HTML 5 dashboard solution for SCOM. It does an awesome job displaying data in a fast and easy way. There is also a way to display OMS data within the dashboard using the OMS tile. Although this is very cool as you are able to combine […]
Author: stefanroth
SMA – Cannot create unkown type ‘{clr-namespace:Microsoft. PowerShell. DyncamicActivities} Activity_xxxxxxxxx_Nested’
I have done many projects using Service Management Automation and PowerShell. One specific error I haven’t seen so far in the job exception of the SMA runbook is this…
Quick Post – SCOM 2016 Upgrade Notes
During my Discussion Panel: Monitoring, Insights & Analytics together with my buddy MVP Kevin Greene at Experts Live Europe in Berlin, we mostly spent time discussing concerns about upgrading to SCOM 2016. A lot attendees were interested what are possible pitfalls, what are the experiences from the field and what is possibly the best upgrade […]
Azure Logic App – Send Data From Application Insights To Azure Log Analytics
If you followed the Ignite 2017 announcements and Microsoft’s latest trends you figured out that serverless applications are getting more and more boost in Microsoft’s cloud strategy. Logic Apps is one of these new awesome iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) services, which let’s you reduce complexity, coding and also headache :). Microsoft summarizes the […]
OMS – Upgrade Workspace Error
Few weeks ago Microsoft introduced the new Azure Log Analytics query language to OMS Log Analytics. In order to use the new language with your workspace you need to upgrade your current workspace. It is very simple and basically a one-click experience and there are new features available as MVP Marcel Zehner describes in his […]
Azure Automation – Up / Down Scale Azure VM
Recently I made a couple of demos how you could benefit from Azure Automation acting on certain alerts. One demo was, if an OMS or Azure Monitor alert is triggered because of high CPU on your Azure VM, a webhook will be called and scale up the Azure VM to a predefined size. In Azure […]
ARM Template – Deployment Error “[Subscription().SubscriptionId]” The request is invalid…
Recently I authored some ARM stuff in Visual Studio and I had a need for getting the current subscription ID the template is being deployed to. So there is a helper function you can call like this… “subscriptionId”: “[subscription().subscriptionId]” I used it in the template like this… …but as soon I tried to deploy the […]
Experts Live Europe – Speaker
Once more I am very excited to be part of one of the best IT conferences in Europe – Experts Live Europe. The 3 conference days are taking place from August 23 – 25 in the Berlin Congress Center in Berlin Germany and will bring together the Microsoft IT Pro Community from all over the […]
OMS – Azure Scheduler Solution
UPDATE 07.08.2017 21:51: I found a bug in the ARM template which made the dashboard not appearing. I fixed it just now, in case you deployed the solution, just redeploy it. Sorry for that hassle. Currently I am doing some more OMS stuff and therefore I also took a deeper dive at building ARM templates […]
SCOM – Certificate Missing Enhanced Key Usage EventID 20050
If you want to monitor a server which does not belong to a domain you need to use a certificate, which has special requirements. You will find many posts how to handle SCOM certificates using a Microsoft PKI on the internet. An example is the detailed post from Tyson Paul. One of the essential requirements […]