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Going Serverless with Azure Functions & Powershell: SendGrid
In this post, we will discuss the process of creating that solution using Azure Function Apps and SendGrid to send emails based on your Powershell Functions which runs in your local machine. We will...
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Windows Admin Center–Part 1 of Optimization Series
This is going to be the first in a series of posts on how to optimize your environment, with the tools provided by Microsoft at no cost to you. Windows Admin Center which can be downloaded here is...
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Field Notes: The case of Active Directory Diagnostics – Data Collector Set...
Performance Monitor is a great tool for collecting and analyzing performance data in Windows and Windows Server. There are many counters available that one can look at to help understand how the...
View ArticleSCOM Advanced Authoring: TCP Port Monitoring
It’s been long time since I blogged about SCOM Authoring. Following the Blog Post on PowerShell Discovery from CSV File I got numerous feedbacks from fellow techies to complete the TCP Port Monitoring...
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OMS Assessment : “No Data Found” Or Server Not Showing
Problem Description and Symptoms: How many of us activated an OMS solution and is getting “No Data Found” as an assessment result. How many added a server to an already assessed solution ( e.g. Active...
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Deploying Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure – Step by Step
On the 21/03/2019, Microsoft released Windows Virtual Desktop (aka WVD) as a public preview. If you haven’t heard about it so far, you can think about Windows Virtual Desktop as a SaaS (Software as a...
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Importance of the Microsoft Product lifecycle dashboard – Keeping your...
The following post was contributed by Meriem Jlassi, a PFE working for Microsoft Introduction As a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) at Microsoft, I get asked by a lot of customers about whether products...
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Field Notes: Cloud Management Gateway – Failed to provision cloud service
Background I recently had to setup the Cloud Management Gateway at a customer and followed all the steps and requirements to implement but still encountered the below error message which does not...
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Field Notes: A quick tip on DFSR Automatic Recovery while you prepare for an...
With Windows Server 2008 R2 reaching end of life in January 2020, many organizations have been migrating their workloads to Windows Server 2016 or newer. Unfortunately with Active Directory (AD), an...
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System Center Configuration Manager – Keep User Domain Profile after reloading
The issue: A Task sequence was used to reload a machine from Windows 7/10 to Windows 10 that has User Data on the D: Drive and Operating system on the C: Drive. After the machine was added to the...
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System Center Configuration Manager – Upgrade to 1902 Error – “SQL Server...
The issue: After trying to upgrade a client Configuration Manager Environment from 1810 to 1902 the upgrade failed with the error “SQL Server Configuration for site upgrade”. The first thing that...
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Field Notes: Access denied when removing Active Directory integrated DNS Zones
With Windows Server 2008 R2 reaching end of life in January 2020, many organizations have been migrating their workloads to Windows Server 2016 or newer. This period is also an opportunity for some to...
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Field Notes: Azure Active Directory Connect – Express Installation
Integrating your on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory makes your users more productive by providing a common identity for accessing both cloud and on-premises resources. Azure AD...
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Changing and Maintaining Office 365 ProPlus Update Channels using ConfigMgr
Background Following on from the Blog Post on Office 365 End to End Servicing. I thought my next post would be on how to change the Office 365 ProPlus Update Channel as I had a customer recently who...
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System Center Configuration Manager – PXE Error –“Windows Failed to start...
The Issue When using System Center Configuration Manager to image machine the download of the boot image freezes and stops. The error message “Windows Failed to start” Status: 0xc0000001. The...
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System Center Configuration Manager – Powershell Query .MIF .SID and .SIC...
The Issue Is there a script that can ‘read’ through the Configuration Manager inboxes ( \Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\auth\sinv.box\BADSinv) and can output/return a list of computer names...
View ArticleHow to associate an account to SCOM unit monitor
In this blogpost, I’ll run through an example of how to associate a Run as Account to script monitor. In SCOM, the way to delegate permissions is by setting a profile and an account that is linked to...
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How to create a new SCOM class and subclass
SCOM Admin needs to know the basic structure of Management packs and knowledge about classes and objects, what are the differences between the classes, and what is the projection of choosing a class....
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Manage SCOM Alerts Using REST API
In this blog post, I will walk through how to get alerts from SCOM using REST API. REST API is applicable from 1801 version which support a set of HTTP operations, in this guide I’ll explained how to...
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Field Notes: Azure Active Directory Connect – Custom Installation with...
Integrating your on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory makes your users more productive by providing a common identity for accessing both cloud and on-premises resources. Azure Active...
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