From time to time I play Minecraft with friends. As a former SCOM geek I have of course configured monitoring for this server 🙂 The server in this […]
Monitor a Minecraft server with OMS (including moonshine perf counters)
Setting up team permissions with custom RBAC role and ARM policy
A common Azure infrastructure scenario is that subscription administrator setup one resource group per service/application. Service administrators or application administrators then are assigned permissions to […]
Review Azure Automation jobs with PowerBI
In the Azure Portal, under a Azure Automation account, we can review automation jobs for example number of successfully jobs last seven days. This is […]
Document Azure subscription with PowerShell
I would like to share an idea around documentation for Azure subscription, and hopefully get some ideas and feedback about it. What I see at […]
Monitoring Azure Backup Server with Microsoft Operations Management Suite
In this post I would like to share some ideas around monitoring Azure Backup Server and backup jobs with Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS). OMS […]
Free E-book: Inside the Microsoft Operations Management Suite
Tao (@MrTaoYang), Stan (@StanZhelyazkov), Pete (@pzerger) and I have been working on a project for the last few weeks. We wanted to bring a learning […]
SharePoint Online as frontend for Azure Automation
Back in the Orchestrator days we had the Service Manager self-service portal that we could use to submit items that trigger runbooks in Orchestrator. The […]
Moving a VHD between storage accounts
Moving a virtual machine (VM) between storage accounts sounds like an easy task, but can still be a bit complicated J In this blog post […]
Using Custom Fields in OMS
Last week I was working with custom fields in Operations Management Suite (OMS). I would like to share an example were to use custom fields. […]
New Book on Microsoft Azure IaaS
Pete Zerger, John McCabe and I are working on a book, Microsoft Azure IaaS: Integration, Optimization and Automation. The book is part of the Inside […]