The “Monitoring Azure applications” series: Part 1: Enabling instrumentation and monitoring in your Azure app(s) Part 2: Setting up the handshake Part 3: Discovering your application Ok, so at this point you’ve got...

A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to do an interview with Blain Barton, at Live! TechNet Radio on the work I do within Microsoft IT. I had a good time talking shop and figured I'd share it with those of you that may be interested. I'm going to be...

The “Monitoring Azure applications” series: Part 1: Enabling instrumentation and monitoring in your Azure app(s) Part 2: Setting up the handshake Part 3: Discovering your application In this blog post I’m going to...

Clearly I've not done a great job at keeping my blog updates flowing, so to make up for that I'd like to introduce you to my co-worker Jeremy Young and his blog ( http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jeremyyoung/ ). He has been working with SMS and SCCM for...

The “Monitoring Azure applications” series: Part 1: Enabling instrumentation and monitoring in your Azure app(s) Part 2: Setting up the handshake Part 3: Discovering your application I've been working a lot monitoring of...

I don't know about everyone else, but our team gets asked questions like the following very often: Are we collecting any events from source <insert source name here> ? Do any of the management packs we have deployed alert on event ID <####>...

Not too long ago our team embarked on the journey of migrating all of our clustered root management servers to new hardware. These were exciting times and in retrospect things went much smoother than we had anticipated. With that said, the experience...

In our environment we have 5 production management groups (3 for "core" monitoring, 1 for application monitoring and one for connecting to our network monitoring system). Many times I want to be able to quickly run some cmdlet across all of these management...

Our team recently got a call from one of our reporting users with a problem. She said that her queries against the OpsMgr data warehouse (DWH) weren't returning data within the past 10 days. Upon further discussion she indicated that she was seeing this...

Hi. I've been working for Microsoft for 10 years now and I've participated in a few blogs along the way, all related to Operations Manager. I've recently moved from a role as a program manager in the Operations Manager product group working on features...