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Configuring SQL Reporting Services for Remote or different SCOM DW Database
This article mentions how to configure the SQL Reporting Services for generating reports from a remote SCOM Data Warehouse database (DW DB). This will also be of help for reconfiguring the Reporting...
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Issue with passing data from PowerShell to data bus in SCO, check this out !!...
Hello readers! PowerShell scripts executed within a System Center Orchestrator runbook uses built-in “Run .NET Script” activity which by default uses PowerShell version 2.0. At many times we would...
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Configuring SQL Reporting Services for Remote or different SCOM DW Database
This article mentions how to configure the SQL Reporting Services for generating reports from a remote SCOM Data Warehouse database (DW DB). This will also be of help for reconfiguring the Reporting...
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Arabic Language Pack for SCSM Self Service Portal
Hi All, one of the challenges we face in our region is providing users with their native Self Service Portal Language. Since Arabic is not part of built-in languages shipped with Service Manager Self...
View ArticleIntune/EMS enrollements (ADFS scenario)
Many of customers are facing problems on Intune enrollment with Android devices; it can be: Missing a certificate : you need to ensure that the all the certificate chain is installed on the ADFS...
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Resolving WSUS Performance Issues
Introduction I have recently come across multiple customers that are having issues with a High IIS Worker Process, causing the Servers to flatline, so I wanted to take some time here to run you...
View ArticleCreating symbolic links with PowerShell DSC
Background In an Azure Windows VM you automatically get a temporary disk drive mapped to D: (on Linux it's mapped to /dev/sdb1). It is temporary because the storage is assigned from the local storage...
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Unable to start SCOM ACS collector service – Event ID 4661
Problem Description and Symptoms: The Operations Manager Audit Collections Service is not starting with the following error and event Id: Event ID 4661 Error :AdtServer encountered the following...
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Monitoring Application Deployment Failures in Configuration Manager
Background One of the key features of System Center Configuration Manager is Application deployment. Most of our enterprise customers have invested heavily in their administrative time and skills in...
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Automating the clean-up of Configuration Manager Maintenance Collections
Background Most organizations using System Center Configuration Manager implement collections configured for maintenance tasks. Administrators generally monitor these collections on a weekly\monthly...
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Analyzing Azure EA Consumption Using Power BI – Part 1 Setting Up Data
Analyzing the usage and tuning resources is a key responsibility in Cloud Management. We need to understand where we spent , what are the trends and where we can tune our spending. When it comes to...
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Analyzing Azure EA Cost Using Power BI – Part 2 Tags
Analyzing the usage and tuning resources is a key responsibility in Cloud Management. We need to understand where we spent , what are the trends and where we can tune our spending. When it comes to...
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Intune Device Management – Removing Local Admins in Windows 10 Devices
Following up to the post on renaming windows 10 devices that are managed by Intune, another frequent requirement is remove the local user accounts from Administrators group. The AAD user account will...
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Analyzing Azure EA Cost Using Power BI – Part 3 Advanced Calculations
Analyzing the usage and tuning resources is a key responsibility in Cloud Management. We need to understand where we spent , what are the trends and where we can tune our spending. When it comes to...
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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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Step by Step: Safely disabling SMB v1 from your production environment.
Introduction: In this blog I will not cover why we have to remove SMB v1 from production network, this have been already covered, probably one of the best articles covering this is...
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Field Notes: The case of accidentally misconfigured Failover Cluster CSV cache
Introduction In this post, I take you through a process of troubleshooting high pool usage using free tools available in the Windows Sysinternals suite and the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). I...
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Publish Your Home Internet Connection IP Address Using Azure Blobs- Part 1
Scenario Ever wanted to be able to access your home server while your on the go, but you don't know its IP Address ? Or maybe it changed ? Background I have a server at home which I use to host number...
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Publish Your Home Internet Connection IP Address Using Azure Blobs- Part 2
This is part 2 of a hack to publish your Home Internet Connection IP Address to Azure. Please check part 1 of the article here...
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Step by step MIM PAM setup and evaluation Guide – Part 1
Background: Privileged Access Management (PAM) is relatively new feature of Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 and is becoming more and more popular. Intention of this Blog series is to provide step by...
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