You might have heard that Microsoft is switching to a semi-annual channel for Windows Server and System Center. If you have no clue what this is or what it means then read this post from June 2017. In short, it means that every half year, Microsoft will release new updates for your System Center / […]
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Azure Application Insights – Using Squared Up Web API
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
OMS – Disconnect Azure Storage Account from Workspace
In OMS you are able to collect data from storage account? Why is this useful? Well, there times where you want to store data from different Azure sources for a longer time than provided by Azure itself and then dig into the data using OMS. For example you are able to store IIS Logs, Windows […]
SCOM 2016 – Upgrade Notes from the Field
Upgrading from SCOM 2012 R2 to SCOM 2016 is theoretically no such big deal. BUT sometimes you could face issues at the customer’s infrastructure, which force you to take some extra hurdle. This post should give you a high level overview of different migration scenarios and additionally some pitfalls you could meet upgrading to SCOM […]