SCOM 2016 WMI is Unhealthy Alerts
While installing SCOM 2016 recently, i noticed that once agents had been added that there were a wave of “WMI is unhealthy” alerts in the SCOM console. At this point UR4 was installed, so thought it...
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VSTS Git API
All too often I have seen people have multiple copies of the same file, all with a different version and all local on their machines. This goes against everything that Source Control is intended for....
View ArticleAzure Automation – backup solution for old operating systems – Windows Server...
During one of my projects, I worked on scripting a procedure for backing up virtual machines with the Windows Server 2003 / 2008 operating system. Microsoft provides Azure Backup Services for...
View ArticleForcing TLS1.2 when using Azure Hybrid Runbook Workers
We have some Azure automation running to query a REST API using Azure Hybrid Runbook Workers. Recently the connectivity started failing with error of “The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS...
View ArticleJoey v2: IaaS – to – Data Platform
Hello Everyone, It’s been a little while since I blogged, but I thought I would blog on a topic that I feel will be the next big “paradigm shift” (wow, did I really use a buzz phrase?) in cloud: the...
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Does That Really Need a Server?
The concept of lifting & shifting has been around for many years within IT: from the days when it inferred packing datacenters into lorries and hurriedly racking and stacking at the other end, to...
View ArticleAzure Reserved Instances
Up until fairly recently, Azure VM pricing has relied on an hourly billing model, based on the “size” of VM you are looking to run. Within this cost, you have both the Infrastructure and Licensing...
View ArticleAzure Low Priority VMs on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
What are VM Scale Sets VM scale sets are a group of identical virtual machines deployed as a scaled set. Scale sets, along with other benefits, support load balancing, auto scaling, and OS Image...
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Azure File Sync – Public Preview
Whilst Large efforts have been made to move enterprises away from the use of general purpose file servers to other solutions such as OneDrive and SharePoint, they remain a staple part of most...
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Containers: Making the Most of Cloud Solutions
Containers: at one point seemingly a fad, now a major component in large enterprise. Estimations from Gartner point to half of global organizations running containers in production from 2020, and the...
View ArticleHow Do Containers Make Things Easier for Application Development?
It works on my computer! We’ve all been there. We’ve installed, configured, or developed something that works perfectly on “my computer” or “my dev environment”, but under release testing it stops...
View ArticleSetting “Enable Proxy” by default for SCOM Agents
More and more management packs require your SCOM agents to act as a proxy to allow data flow, this means alerts in the console, and an annoying manual task enabling them as they appear. Something i...
View ArticleFixing Scheduled Maintenance Mode in SCOM 2016
In all of the SCOM installations I’ve done or seen recently, I see the issue with the scheduled maintenance mode not loading and producing the following error: “The EXECUTE permission was denied on the...
View ArticleTime to Embrace Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
“Now is an exciting time to be in the cloud.” That’s a mantra championed by one of our executives at my company Ensono and echoed by the hundreds of thousands of blogs, memes, magazine covers, and...
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Working with Hybrid Runbook Worker in Azure Automation
In my current project, I had a chance to work with Azure Automation and Hybrid Runbook Worker machine solution. The task was to migrate high number of VMware Virtual Machines (VMs) running different...
View ArticleDNS traffic excluded from Deny All rule by default in Azure
In the last 2 years of my carrier, I worked a lot with Microsoft Azure services including the networking. Because the constant changes in Azure fabric, we need to make sure we are familiar with the...
View ArticleVMware Configuration Server for ASR gets unresponsive
Overview During one of my last projects I had to work with Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to migrate servers from VMware environment into Azure. As you may know this involves several components both from...
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