Posts by Year

2021

A complete makeover

3 minute read

For those of you that come here frequenty, last few days a lot has happened. First, the looks of of the blog has changed completely from a blue colourful the...

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2020

ARM Templates: Deploying Azure Monitor Alerts

4 minute read

In my series of blog posts about working with ARM templates I have gone through a lot of different use cases. In the last post I covered how to deploy a nest...

ARM Templates: Working with parameters in Azure

3 minute read

Working with parameters in Azure is something I want to discuss a bit more than what I´ve done earlier. Azure tags have recently been covered on this blog, m...

ARM Templates: Working with tags in Azure

3 minute read

Working with tags in Azure is a really important thing. It´s something that everyone should do as soon as they start to move workloads to Azure. In my last t...

ARM Templates: Working with naming conventions

4 minute read

In my last post which you can find here, I wrote about how to get started writing ARM templates for you Azure deployments. In the end I provided an ARM templ...

Getting started with Azure ARM templates

6 minute read

The first time I heard about JSON and ARM templates together with Azure in the same sentence, was in Chicago at Microsoft Ignite back in 2015. My first thoug...

New challenges on the horizon

1 minute read

A lot has happened since my last blog post, and my motivation to write new blog posts has not really been on top. Due to the fact that my personal focus has ...

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2019

Get notified on Azure service health issues

5 minute read

More and more services are moving to the cloud, Azure is one of the larges players but AWS and Google Cloud are also two large players. But just because reso...

Azure Monitor - Getting started with alerting

7 minute read

Azure Monitor is a quite new addition to the monitoring sphere when talking about monitoring Microsoft technologies. Traditionally it has been System Center ...

The OMS portal is retired

1 minute read

Last week on January 15th was the last day of the OMS portal before its retirement. It has now completely moved to the Azure portal instead. Since Operation...

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2018

What´s new in SCOM 2019 and 1901

4 minute read

A few weeks ago, we held our annual event called SCOM Day in Gothenburg with about 80 attendees. This year we focused on hybrid monitoring using SCOM 2019/19...

Monitoring the VMware environment – Part 1

6 minute read

Lately I have been working a lot with monitoring VMware using SCOM for some of our largest customers and have gotten to think about this more and more. Even ...

Looking at the news in SCOM 1807

3 minute read

As I said in my last post, SCOM 1807 was released a few weeks back and I explained a little about the news and what they meant. This time it´s about showing ...

SCOM 1807 has been released

3 minute read

So, the summer is almost over and I´m back from my vacation. In other words, time to dig into things again. A couple of weeks ago Microsoft launched System C...

SCOM 1801 has been relased

2 minute read

Yesterday the news finally came, System Center 1801 has been relased. An with that, of course SCOM 1801. This is the first release in the new Semi-Annual Ch...

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2017

News about SCOM 1801

3 minute read

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced a coming big change for the System Center suite. Instead of launching new versions every fourth or fifth year as befor...

Load-Balancing the SCOM Web Console - Part 2

4 minute read

It´s time for the second post about load-balancing the SCOM Web Console that I started publishing last week in this two-post series. In the first post I show...

Load-Balancing the SCOM Web Console - Part 1

4 minute read

A lot of companies that uses SCOM as a part of their processes wants to delegate control over certain areas to certain teams responsible for different servic...

Measure SCOM Tasks using PowerShell

3 minute read

Sometimes when working with SCOM, one hears that “SCOM is slow” or “the console is taking forever to do this and that”. I won’t be speculating about the reas...

Getting started with Azure Automation DSC

8 minute read

One of the things I work with in my role as a product manager for Operations Management Suite (OMS) is the automation part of the suite. In this case, it mea...

A deeper look at OMS Service Map

5 minute read

A while back I wrote a post where I went through the basics and how to get started with the new feature Service Map, which is a part of OMS nowadays. Read th...

A first look at OMS Service Map

5 minute read

A couple of months back, Microsoft made Service Map available as a part of OMS. It all began about 18 months ago when Microsoft acquired Bluestripe and their...

Installing OMS agent with PowerShell

3 minute read

Operations Management Suite (OMS) is a great thing and easy (and fast) to getting started with just installing an agent on a server. However, installing OMS ...

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2016

Monitor VMware with OMS

8 minute read

One of the better releases in a while has been the ability to monitor VMware with OMS. Earlier this year a new solution was released for OMS Log Analytics fo...

Create your own solutions in OMS

4 minute read

My last big blog post about monitoring Nano server is dated May 17th which makes it approximately 6 weeks since then. Out of that 6 weeks, 3 weeks have been ...

Set up and monitor Nano server

6 minute read

It´s been a while since I wrote anything now (5 weeks approximately, which is not okay) and it´s time to monitor Nano Server again. Due to some really annoyi...

Visualizing OMS data in Power BI

4 minute read

If you just like me have been using OMS now for a while and collected a serious amount of data, collecting everything from a ton of events to the update stat...

Monitoring Nano Server using SCOM

5 minute read

This post is covering Windows Server 2016 and SCOM 2016 TP4. A new post covering Windows Server 2016 and SCOM 2016 TP5 can be found here. So its time for so...

Getting started - Nano Server

6 minute read

When Windows Server 2016 is launched later this year, we will be able to choose from three versions to deploy, the full version including the complete user i...

Reset AD user password using Azure Automation

6 minute read

So the time has come, holidays are over and we have stepped into another year. This time it says 2016 and I think we are looking into a great year with tons ...

Summary of the year 2015

1 minute read

Now that my blog has been up and running for a complete year, the time has come for a summary of the year 2015. Of course this statistic should be shared wit...

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2015

A first look at SCOM 2016 Technical Preview 4

3 minute read

And so that beautiful time has come again (I admit I´m a little late with this one as its been out for about three weeks now) when a new technical preview ha...

Delegate automation rights in Azure Automation

4 minute read

If you have been following my blog for a while, you might remember two of my later posts which concerns the creation of AD users, both on-prem and in Azure A...

Create Azure AD users with Azure Automation

4 minute read

A few weeks back I wrote this post about how you can use OMS and Azure Automation to create new users in your on-prem AD. That solution uses the Hybrid Worke...

Import new modules into Azure Automation

3 minute read

When you start working with Azure Automation, you will most likely run into the fact that not all of the PowerShell modules you are used to is available in t...

Introducing the OMS Linux agent

5 minute read

Earlier this week while I was busy writing the post about OMS and Azure Automation, Microsoft made the Linux agent for Operations Management Suite (OMS) avai...

Near real time performance monitoring in OMS

4 minute read

When it comes to monitoring servers, traditionally SCOM has played a big part in taking care of it. Nowadays, Operations Management Suite works as a compleme...

Connect your on-prem servers to Azure

6 minute read

For a while now, my on-prem lab environment have been almost at its max capacity and since I have moved from an apartment to a house by the sea for the summe...

Creating custom fields in OMS

3 minute read

Operations Management Suite (OMS) is great in gathering data about your environment and letting you dig into the data gathered to find intrusions for example...

Analyzing Linux Syslogs in OMS

2 minute read

In my earlier posts regarding Operations Management Suite (OMS) I have covered how to get the information from the servers both directly from the agent but a...

Onboarding Operations Management Suite: Part 2

4 minute read

In my last post which you can find here, I showed how you can connect your on-prem SCOM management group to Operations Management Suite. The procedure is the...

Onboarding Operations Management Suite: Part 1

4 minute read

During the keynote at Microsoft Ignite on May 4th in Chicago, Satya Nadella announced the availability of Microsoft Operations Management Suite. To those of ...

Meet the Microsoft Operations Management Suite

2 minute read

This monday during the keynote of Microsoft Ignite in Chicago, Satya Nadella announced the new “Operations Management Suite” which is the new name for Azure ...

Microsoft Ignite 2015

1 minute read

When i wrote my last post about Microsoft Ignite which you can find here, the event were 30 days away. Now it’s only 2 days away and I’m writing this post on...

Send mail from SCOM

4 minute read

Have you ever wanted to send mail from SCOM just to notify someone of an alert and to easily provide them with all the information they need? Do you wish you...

User rights in SCOM

4 minute read

One thing that I often come across in my projects of implementing SCOM at customers is the ability to assign user rights in SCOM to specific users or groups....

Sessions to attend at Ignite

1 minute read

It is now only 30 days until I fly out from Copenhagen to New York and then Chicago to attend Microsoft Ignite. Ignite is a new event which merges several di...

Send SCOM reports through e-mail

2 minute read

One thing that might not be as obvious as you would wish in SCOM is how to send reports through e-mail. Inside SCOM there is no possibility to configure a SM...

Microsoft Ignite

1 minute read

About 10 months ago i flew out to Houston, Texas to attend TechEd North America 2014. Now, I´ve been given the possibility to also attend this years event. T...

Capacity planning in Azure Operational Insights

5 minute read

When i moved my blog around new years eve i mentioned that I´m going to look more into Azure in this blog and one thing that I´ve written about earlier is Az...

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2014

Installing SCOM technical preview

3 minute read

Earlier this week Microsoft announced Windows 10 at an event in San Francisco, this has later been seen a lot in media and in blogs etc. and from what I´ve s...

Test the perfomance of a SQL query using SCOM

2 minute read

When it comes to replacing an old monitoring solution with SCOM, quite often there are some custom built monitors used in the old system. Since the monitors ...

Group your virtual machines in SCOM

2 minute read

For a while, I´ve been struggling with a problem when configuring Operations Manager. As a consultant, I run into a lot of different issues to solve and one ...

Set up the new System Center Advisor preview

4 minute read

For those of you who were attending or following TechEd North America I Houston last week, it may not come as a surprise that during an Operations Manager br...

Backup unsealed Management Packs in SCOM

2 minute read

When Operations Manager has been up and running for a while, a couple of overrides MP’s are created that we don´t want to lose. A while back, I wrote a blog ...

Let Powershell configure the SQL Server MP

2 minute read

When i install SCOM for a new customer or just reinstall my lab environment, among the first Management Packs to be imported is the SQL Server Management Pac...

Schedule Operations Manager Maintenance Mode

4 minute read

One of the most common tasks for a SCOM administrator is perhaps managing Maintenance Mode for servers. Setting a server into Maintenance Mode is really easy...

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2013

Set up Operations Manager AD Integration

3 minute read

In this post i will guide you in how to integrate Operations Manager with the AD to automate the agent assignment process. The easiest way to deploy agents i...

Create a custom view for SCOM alerts in SCSM

2 minute read

In my last post I wrote about how to connect Operations Manager to Service Manager. The default settings after this has been done and following my guide to s...

Veeam Management Pack for VMware 6

1 minute read

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about how to monitor your VMware environment. The solution that Veeam has come up with consists of three components; t...

Set up SMS notifications in SCOM

4 minute read

When you have implemented Operations Manager and imported the Management Packs that gives you the monitoring you want, the next step should be setting up not...

Monitor your VMware environment using Veeam MP

5 minute read

As you already know, Operations Manager is a great product that resides on Management Packs to provide monitoring for our servers and applications. Among the...

Rename your custom Management Packs

1 minute read

When importing a new Management Pack, a custom Management pack should always be created for containing overrides for det imported Management Pack. This is no...

Monitoring DMZ Agents in Operations Manager

4 minute read

Quite often, i run into customers that are using a DMZ for hosting their web servers and sites. Since they don´t share the domain with the other servers, suc...

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