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SCOM

Squared Up OpsMgr Community MP Catalog

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One of the big challenges when working with OpsMgr is finding all the good community management packs. Although Microsoft has provided a “Partner Solutions” ...

Upcoming SCOM Bootcamp-Melbourne Australia

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I’m teaming up with Infront Consulting, Australia and will deliver a 4-day in-person instructor-led SCOM 2012 bootcamp at Melbourne, Australia. The content o...

Squared Up Released version 2.3

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Few weeks ago, the Squared Up folks sent me the preview bits for version 2.3. I haven’t had time to play with it until today.

Top Community Resources for SCOM and OMS

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Last Friday, as part of the Squared Up UK community workshop, I have presented my recommended resources for SCOM and OMS. I have covered may blogs, sites, ma...

Using an External Knowledge Base for OpsMgr

10 minute read

Summary I’ve been wanting to write a post on this topic for a while. Using an external knowledge base for OpsMgr is not something new. Many people have alrea...

OpsMgr Dashboard Fun: Google Maps

7 minute read

I am really excited about the 2 new PowerShell dashboard widget released in OpsMgr 2012 R2 UR2. PowerShell has always been my favourite scripting language, s...

VMware Windows Guest Management Pack

1 minute read

This Monday, I was configuring monitoring for all our System Center 2012 servers as per our Windows support team’s requirement. Since all the virtual machine...

Discovery for MS Clusters of Any Kind

6 minute read

Often when developing an OpsMgr management pack for server class applications, we need to be cluster-aware. Sometimes workflows don’t need to run on a cluste...

OpsMgr Weather Monitoring MP Updated

1 minute read

I got an email from someone up in Sweden the other day in regards to the Weather Monitoring MP that I released few months ago. I’ve been made aware that a ne...

MP Authoring: Targeting RMS or MS?

2 minute read

I’m writing a write action module for a management pack that I’m currently working on. This module contains a PowerShell script that connects to SCOM SDK ser...

SCCM 2007 Client Management Pack Updated

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I received an email this morning regarding to the SCCM 2007 Client Management Pack that I wrote few months ago. Someone pointed out it had some issues in the...

SCOM Alert Notification–Using Skype

2 minute read

Recently I’ve been wanting to setup SCOM notifications in my test environment that can reach me even when I’m not home.. However, I had two problem: I don’t ...

Unresponsive SCOM 2007 R2 Console

2 minute read

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been configuring a brand new SCOM environment at work to monitor the SCCM infrastructure.

Broken SCOM Web Console URLs?

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I come across a situation where when i click on the web console URL from a SCOM notification email such as this one: http://<SCOM Web Server>/default.a...

SCOM Console Crashes

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When I connect SCOM console to one of my clients SCOM 2007 R2 environment, under Authoring Pane, if I change the display scope of Monitors or Rules to “View ...

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PowerShell

Generate Unique GUID in PowerShell

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In Azure ARM / Bicep templates, there is a function called guid() which allows you to generate a unique GUID. You can use this function as many times as you ...

OMSDataInjection PowerShell Module Updated

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I’ve just pushed a small update to my old OMSDataInection PowerShell module. This module is designed to send custom logs to a Log Analytics workspace via its...

PowerShell Module: PSPesterTest

1 minute read

Few weeks ago, the customer I was working for has a requirement that all the PowerShell scripts and in-house written modules must be validated against PSScri...

PowerShell Function to Get Azure AD Token

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When making Azure Resource Manager REST API calls, you will firstly need to obtain an Azure AD authorization token and use it to construct the authorization ...

SharePointSDK Module Updated to v2.1.5

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I’ve just released SharePointSDK module version 2.1.5 with a minor bug fix within the New-SPListDateTimeField function. In the old versions, the New-SPListDa...

OMSDataInjection Updated to Version 1.2.0

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The OMSDataInjection module was only updated to v1.1.1  less than 2 weeks ago. I had to update it again to reflect the cater for the changes in the OMS HTTP ...

ConfigMgr OMS Connector

2 minute read

Earlier this week, Microsoft has release a new feature  in System Center Configuration Manager 1606 called OMS Connector:

Azure Automation Runbook: New-FakeVirus

2 minute read

Often when you are playing with security related products, you would need to create dummy/fake viruses on your computers. The most common way to do this is t...

PowerShell Module: Resize-Console

2 minute read

I’m currently working on a solution that relies on PowerShell Web Access (Hopefully I can finish tonight and blog it in next couple of days).

PowerShell Function: Get-WeekDayInMonth

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Often, IT admins need to workout the first/second/third/fourth Mon/Tue/Wed/Thur/Fri/Sat/Sun of any given month. some good examples are: Prepare themselves ...

Scripting 101 For George

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Yesterday at work, we were having a chat with George, the team leader of our infrastructure 3rd level support team. George told me since he’s a team leader, ...

SCOM Alert Notification–Using Skype

2 minute read

Recently I’ve been wanting to setup SCOM notifications in my test environment that can reach me even when I’m not home.. However, I had two problem: I don’t ...

Disabling Auto Discovery in SCDPM 2010

2 minute read

System Center Data Protection Manager is not something I normally play with. Recently, I’ve been dobbed in to troubleshoot an issue with remote sites network...

PowerShell Script: SCCM Health Check

4 minute read

30/01/2012: This script has been updated to version 3.5. Details can be found HERE. The download link on this article has also been updated to version 3.5.

PowerShell Function: Validate Subnet Mask

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This is a function I wrote couple of days ago for the Windows Build Scripts which I blogged yesterday. I think it is pretty cool so I’d like to blog this fun...

PowerShell Script: Mass-Mailer

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Today a colleague asked me to write a script to send out a email to a large group of people but have the phrase “Dear <person’s name”>” in the beginnin...

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Azure

Use GitHub Super Linter in Azure Pipelines

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Recently, GitHub has released an open-sourced tool called Super Linter (Blog, Repo). It’s basically a swiss army knife of linters for a collection of languag...

OMSDataInjection PowerShell Module Updated

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I’ve just pushed a small update to my old OMSDataInection PowerShell module. This module is designed to send custom logs to a Log Analytics workspace via its...

100 Days of Infrastructure as Code in Azure

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I have been asked to contribute to the 100 Days of IaC in Azure project started by Ryan Irujo (@reirujo) and Pete Zerger (@pzerger). I accepted the invitatio...

New Book Release: Inside Azure Management

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I have been pretty busy over the last few months, largely because I was working on the new book titled Inside Azure Management with few MVP friends. We have ...

Sneak Peak of Azure Blueprints

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Azure Blueprints have been announced and made available for public preview last month at Microsoft Ignite 2018. I have been on the private preview for few mo...

Azure Functions Demo: Voting App

2 minute read

Back in April this year, Pete Zerger (@pzerger) and I delivered two sessions in Experts Live Australia. One of which is titled “Cloud Automation Overview”. D...

PowerShell Function to Get Azure AD Token

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When making Azure Resource Manager REST API calls, you will firstly need to obtain an Azure AD authorization token and use it to construct the authorization ...

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OMS

Inside OMS Book V2 Released

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Few days ago, the Inside OMS Book version 2 has been released as a free ebook to the TechNet Gallery: http://bit.ly/InsideOMS

Inside OMS book v2 Preview Chapters Release

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Over the last few months, Stan, Pete, Anders and I have been very busy with writing the version 2 of the Inside Microsoft Operations Management Suite book. A...

OMSDataInjection Updated to Version 1.2.0

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The OMSDataInjection module was only updated to v1.1.1  less than 2 weeks ago. I had to update it again to reflect the cater for the changes in the OMS HTTP ...

ConfigMgr OMS Connector

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Earlier this week, Microsoft has release a new feature  in System Center Configuration Manager 1606 called OMS Connector:

Scoping OMS Performance Data in Power BI

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when working on a dashboard or a portal, sometimes it is good that the portal is more interactive. I often found it’s more useful then just a static widget. ...

Azure Automation Runbook: New-FakeVirus

2 minute read

Often when you are playing with security related products, you would need to create dummy/fake viruses on your computers. The most common way to do this is t...

Free OMS Workshops in Sydney and Melbourne

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Next week, I will team up with my fellow Cloud and Datacenter MVP Daniel Mar from Infront Consulting Australia and deliver 2 free Microsoft Operations Manage...

Top Community Resources for SCOM and OMS

less than 1 minute read

Last Friday, as part of the Squared Up UK community workshop, I have presented my recommended resources for SCOM and OMS. I have covered may blogs, sites, ma...

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MP Authoring

Upcoming Webinar on MP Authoring Using VSAE

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Last week, I have conducted a workshop with Richard Benwell from Squared Up to a group of Squared Up’s customers at an internal company event. In the worksho...

VMware Windows Guest Management Pack

1 minute read

This Monday, I was configuring monitoring for all our System Center 2012 servers as per our Windows support team’s requirement. Since all the virtual machine...

Discovery for MS Clusters of Any Kind

6 minute read

Often when developing an OpsMgr management pack for server class applications, we need to be cluster-aware. Sometimes workflows don’t need to run on a cluste...

Bulk Creating Overrides in VSAE

2 minute read

At work, in one of the OpsMgr 2007 management groups, we have 3 sets of Australian state / territory based computer groups. Let’s say they are App-A, App-B, ...

OpsMgr Weather Monitoring MP Updated

1 minute read

I got an email from someone up in Sweden the other day in regards to the Weather Monitoring MP that I released few months ago. I’ve been made aware that a ne...

MP Authoring: Targeting RMS or MS?

2 minute read

I’m writing a write action module for a management pack that I’m currently working on. This module contains a PowerShell script that connects to SCOM SDK ser...

SCCM 2007 Client Management Pack Updated

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I received an email this morning regarding to the SCCM 2007 Client Management Pack that I wrote few months ago. Someone pointed out it had some issues in the...

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SCCM

ConfigMgr OMS Connector

2 minute read

Earlier this week, Microsoft has release a new feature  in System Center Configuration Manager 1606 called OMS Connector:

Passed MCTS for SCCM 2012 Exam today

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Around 8-9 months ago, a friend of mine gave me a copy of beta version of trainer’s handbooks for Microsoft course 10747A (Administering SCCM 2012) and 10748...

SCCM 2007 Client Management Pack Updated

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I received an email this morning regarding to the SCCM 2007 Client Management Pack that I wrote few months ago. Someone pointed out it had some issues in the...

SCCM 2012 Log Parser: cmtrace.exe

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In my opinion, THE most used utility (other than SCCM console) for any SCCM administrators / engineers would have to be trace32.exe. Back in SMS and SCCM 200...

Clean Up Old Hardware Inventory Data

1 minute read

In SCCM, after removing WMI classes that are no longer required from configuration.mof and sms_def.mof, the inventory data still exists in few places.

PowerShell Script: SCCM Health Check

4 minute read

30/01/2012: This script has been updated to version 3.5. Details can be found HERE. The download link on this article has also been updated to version 3.5.

Passed MCTS SCCM exam yesterday

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In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been refreshing my memory on SCCM since I haven’t worked on it for almost 4 month… Yesterday, I passed Microsoft 70-401 (S...

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SMA

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Azure Automation

Azure Automation Runbook: New-FakeVirus

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Often when you are playing with security related products, you would need to create dummy/fake viruses on your computers. The most common way to do this is t...

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Azure Policy

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Automating OpsMgr

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Dashboard

Squared Up Released version 2.3

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Few weeks ago, the Squared Up folks sent me the preview bits for version 2.3. I haven’t had time to play with it until today.

OpsMgr Dashboard Fun: Google Maps

7 minute read

I am really excited about the 2 new PowerShell dashboard widget released in OpsMgr 2012 R2 UR2. PowerShell has always been my favourite scripting language, s...

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Management Pack

Squared Up OpsMgr Community MP Catalog

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One of the big challenges when working with OpsMgr is finding all the good community management packs. Although Microsoft has provided a “Partner Solutions” ...

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SquaredUp

When Squared Up meets Windows Admin Center

2 minute read

I have been in the private preview for Project Honolulu (now called Windows Admin Center) for quite long time before it became GA and I am a big fan of it. I...

Squared Up Released version 2.3

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Few weeks ago, the Squared Up folks sent me the preview bits for version 2.3. I haven’t had time to play with it until today.

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Community Events

Upcoming Webinar on MP Authoring Using VSAE

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Last week, I have conducted a workshop with Richard Benwell from Squared Up to a group of Squared Up’s customers at an internal company event. In the worksho...

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Azure Bicep

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Speaking Events

Upcoming Conferences and Book Release

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It’s been a while since my last post. Other than the 2-week holiday I had in China around Christmas and New Year period, I spent most of my December and Janu...

Free OMS Workshops in Sydney and Melbourne

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Next week, I will team up with my fellow Cloud and Datacenter MVP Daniel Mar from Infront Consulting Australia and deliver 2 free Microsoft Operations Manage...

Presenting in Microsoft Ignite Australia

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Microsoft Ignite Australia is going to take place in Gold Coast, QLD between 17 – 20 November 2015. I am really honoured to co-present a session with the leg...

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Azure DevOps

Use GitHub Super Linter in Azure Pipelines

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Recently, GitHub has released an open-sourced tool called Super Linter (Blog, Repo). It’s basically a swiss army knife of linters for a collection of languag...

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SharePoint

SharePointSDK Module Updated to v2.1.5

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I’ve just released SharePointSDK module version 2.1.5 with a minor bug fix within the New-SPListDateTimeField function. In the old versions, the New-SPListDa...

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Power BI

Azure Functions Demo: Voting App

2 minute read

Back in April this year, Pete Zerger (@pzerger) and I delivered two sessions in Experts Live Australia. One of which is titled “Cloud Automation Overview”. D...

Scoping OMS Performance Data in Power BI

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when working on a dashboard or a portal, sometimes it is good that the portal is more interactive. I often found it’s more useful then just a static widget. ...

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OpsLogix

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Health Check

PowerShell Script: SCCM Health Check

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30/01/2012: This script has been updated to version 3.5. Details can be found HERE. The download link on this article has also been updated to version 3.5.

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SCOM Reporting

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MVP

MVP Renewed For the 2nd Year

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Time flies. It has been one year since I firstly became a MVP in System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management. Last night, I have received the most importan...

This Concludes My Year 2014

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It is one day away from the holiday season of the year. And I have worked HARD over the last few days so I can post my last technical post for the year 2014 ...

MVP Award

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Last night, I got an email from Microsoft and I have received the MVP Award for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management. I’m so excited and honoured th...

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Azure Functions

Azure Functions Demo: Voting App

2 minute read

Back in April this year, Pete Zerger (@pzerger) and I delivered two sessions in Experts Live Australia. One of which is titled “Cloud Automation Overview”. D...

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ARM Template

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Azure Resource Policy

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Hyper-V

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SCOM Management Pack

OpsMgr Weather Monitoring MP Updated

1 minute read

I got an email from someone up in Sweden the other day in regards to the Weather Monitoring MP that I released few months ago. I’ve been made aware that a ne...

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Others

New Blogger in the Family

1 minute read

I have been blogging for six and half years and to this moment, I’m still enjoying it. Few months ago my better half has decided to start blogging as well. A...

Blog Site Recovered–Finally

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If you are a regular visitor of this blog, you may have noticed that this blog has been down since last Thursday, and I’ve only been able to get it back onli...

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DevOps

100 Days of Infrastructure as Code in Azure

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I have been asked to contribute to the 100 Days of IaC in Azure project started by Ryan Irujo (@reirujo) and Pete Zerger (@pzerger). I accepted the invitatio...

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VSTS

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Pester

PowerShell Module: PSPesterTest

1 minute read

Few weeks ago, the customer I was working for has a requirement that all the PowerShell scripts and in-house written modules must be validated against PSScri...

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Azure Governance

Sneak Peak of Azure Blueprints

3 minute read

Azure Blueprints have been announced and made available for public preview last month at Microsoft Ignite 2018. I have been on the private preview for few mo...

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Azure Monitor

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SCCM Reports

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PowerShell Web Access

PowerShell Module: Resize-Console

2 minute read

I’m currently working on a solution that relies on PowerShell Web Access (Hopefully I can finish tonight and blog it in next couple of days).

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Log Analytics

OMSDataInjection PowerShell Module Updated

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I’ve just pushed a small update to my old OMSDataInection PowerShell module. This module is designed to send custom logs to a Log Analytics workspace via its...

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book release

New Book Release: Inside Azure Management

1 minute read

I have been pretty busy over the last few months, largely because I was working on the new book titled Inside Azure Management with few MVP friends. We have ...

Upcoming Conferences and Book Release

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It’s been a while since my last post. Other than the 2-week holiday I had in China around Christmas and New Year period, I spent most of my December and Janu...

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Hardware Inventory

Clean Up Old Hardware Inventory Data

1 minute read

In SCCM, after removing WMI classes that are no longer required from configuration.mof and sms_def.mof, the inventory data still exists in few places.

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SQL

Disabling Auto Discovery in SCDPM 2010

2 minute read

System Center Data Protection Manager is not something I normally play with. Recently, I’ve been dobbed in to troubleshoot an issue with remote sites network...

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PowerShell Remoting

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SCOM Notifications

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Orchestrator

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OpsMgrExtended

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Community

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OMS Book

Inside OMS Book V2 Released

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Few days ago, the Inside OMS Book version 2 has been released as a free ebook to the TechNet Gallery: http://bit.ly/InsideOMS

Inside OMS book v2 Preview Chapters Release

1 minute read

Over the last few months, Stan, Pete, Anders and I have been very busy with writing the version 2 of the Inside Microsoft Operations Management Suite book. A...

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Home Automation

My Journey to a Smarter Home (Part 3)

10 minute read

This is the 3rd part of the blog series. I have covered my home network setup using Ubiquiti Unifi devices in part 1, and Xiaomi home automation products in ...

My Journey to a Smarter Home (Part 2)

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This is the 2nd part of the blog series. I have covered my home network setup using Ubiquiti Unifi devices in part 1, you can find it here. In this part, I w...

My Journey to a Smarter Home (Part 1)

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Over the last month, I have published 8 blog posts. Right now, although I still have few more on my to-do list, I’m just a bit over it. I want to write somet...

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Smart Home

My Journey to a Smarter Home (Part 3)

10 minute read

This is the 3rd part of the blog series. I have covered my home network setup using Ubiquiti Unifi devices in part 1, and Xiaomi home automation products in ...

My Journey to a Smarter Home (Part 2)

12 minute read

This is the 2nd part of the blog series. I have covered my home network setup using Ubiquiti Unifi devices in part 1, you can find it here. In this part, I w...

My Journey to a Smarter Home (Part 1)

13 minute read

Over the last month, I have published 8 blog posts. Right now, although I still have few more on my to-do list, I’m just a bit over it. I want to write somet...

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Azure Resource Graph

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DevOpsAzurePolicySeries

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Terraform

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Windows Scheduled Tasks

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SCOM Migration

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SMTP

PowerShell Script: Mass-Mailer

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Today a colleague asked me to write a script to send out a email to a large group of people but have the phrase “Dear <person’s name”>” in the beginnin...

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Email Notifications

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Exams

Passed MCTS SCCM exam yesterday

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In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been refreshing my memory on SCCM since I haven’t worked on it for almost 4 month… Yesterday, I passed Microsoft 70-401 (S...

Passed MCTS SCOM Exam (70-400) today!

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Today I passed Microsoft exam “70-400 Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring” with a score of 975/1000.

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VBScript

Clean Up Old Hardware Inventory Data

1 minute read

In SCCM, after removing WMI classes that are no longer required from configuration.mof and sms_def.mof, the inventory data still exists in few places.

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Daylight Saving

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SCCM 2012

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Secondary Site

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Windows

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ebook

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SCSM

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SCVMM

Unable to Launch SCVMM 2012 Console

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I was planning to continue on my 70-247 exam preparation tonight, but I couldn’t launch VMM 2012 console from any computers in my lab. So things didn’t turn ...

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Training

Upcoming SCOM Bootcamp-Melbourne Australia

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I’m teaming up with Infront Consulting, Australia and will deliver a 4-day in-person instructor-led SCOM 2012 bootcamp at Melbourne, Australia. The content o...

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VSAE

Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition

2 minute read

Nowadays, Visual Studio is definitely one of my top 5 most-used applications. I have also started using Visual Studio Online to store source codes few months...

Bulk Creating Overrides in VSAE

2 minute read

At work, in one of the OpsMgr 2007 management groups, we have 3 sets of Australian state / territory based computer groups. Let’s say they are App-A, App-B, ...

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SCOM Update Rollup

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SCOM Agent

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Gadgets

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VMM

Installing VMM 2012 R2 Cluster in My Lab

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I needed to build a 2-node VMM 2012 R2 cluster in my lab in order to test an OpsMgr management pack that I’m working on. I was having difficulties getting it...

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TY Consulting; Career

TY Consulting Update

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Things have been pretty busy for me recently. Over the last month, I have attended Microsoft Ignite Australia and co-presented a session on Azure Automation,...

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SCOM 2016

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Azure SQL DB

Azure Functions Demo: Voting App

2 minute read

Back in April this year, Pete Zerger (@pzerger) and I delivered two sessions in Experts Live Australia. One of which is titled “Cloud Automation Overview”. D...

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Azure Storage

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Azure Table

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Azure Key Vault

Azure Functions Demo: Voting App

2 minute read

Back in April this year, Pete Zerger (@pzerger) and I delivered two sessions in Experts Live Australia. One of which is titled “Cloud Automation Overview”. D...

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Blog Site

Moved My Blog to GitHub Pages

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You might wonder why does my blog look different now. This is because I have just moved it from a self-hosted WordPress site to GitHub Pages (running Jekyll)...

This Blog Gets another Facelift

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It has been 7 years since I started blogging here. As the technology progresses, I have changed the theme and the blog title few times to make sure it is sti...

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Ubiquiti

My Journey to a Smarter Home (Part 1)

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Over the last month, I have published 8 blog posts. Right now, although I still have few more on my to-do list, I’m just a bit over it. I want to write somet...

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Azure SQL VM

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Azure VM

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Azure Pipeline

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Infrastructure As Code

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Azure Event Hub

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Alerts

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Morning Check

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Inventory

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MOM

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Stopping MOM Agents

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NTFS Permission

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Console Crash

SCOM Console Crashes

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When I connect SCOM console to one of my clients SCOM 2007 R2 environment, under Authoring Pane, if I change the display scope of Monitors or Rules to “View ...

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TMG

Broken SCOM Web Console URLs?

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I come across a situation where when i click on the web console URL from a SCOM notification email such as this one: http://<SCOM Web Server>/default.a...

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URL Encoding

Broken SCOM Web Console URLs?

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I come across a situation where when i click on the web console URL from a SCOM notification email such as this one: http://<SCOM Web Server>/default.a...

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Web Console

Broken SCOM Web Console URLs?

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I come across a situation where when i click on the web console URL from a SCOM notification email such as this one: http://<SCOM Web Server>/default.a...

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Emails

PowerShell Script: Mass-Mailer

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Today a colleague asked me to write a script to send out a email to a large group of people but have the phrase “Dear <person’s name”>” in the beginnin...

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70-400

Passed MCTS SCOM Exam (70-400) today!

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Today I passed Microsoft exam “70-400 Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring” with a score of 975/1000.

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remote execution policy

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Failover Management Servers

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Primary Management Server

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SCOM agent assignments

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Exchange 2007

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Exchange 2010

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Export-Mailbox

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Mailbox Archive

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Windows Build Script

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TCP/IP

PowerShell Function: Validate Subnet Mask

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This is a function I wrote couple of days ago for the Windows Build Scripts which I blogged yesterday. I think it is pretty cool so I’d like to blog this fun...

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Validate Subnet Mask

PowerShell Function: Validate Subnet Mask

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This is a function I wrote couple of days ago for the Windows Build Scripts which I blogged yesterday. I think it is pretty cool so I’d like to blog this fun...

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Update

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Site Roles

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32 bit Powershell

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PowerShell Execution Policy

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Asset Intelligence

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SCCM Reporting

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Collections

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array

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arraylist

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functions

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SQL Agent Logs

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DNS

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System.Net.DNS

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IP Address

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Networking

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SMS_INSTALL_DIR_PATH

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android

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google listen

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systemcenterpodcast.com

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SCOM Cumulative Update Install

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SCOM console

Unresponsive SCOM 2007 R2 Console

2 minute read

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been configuring a brand new SCOM environment at work to monitor the SCCM infrastructure.

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Windows Firewall

Unresponsive SCOM 2007 R2 Console

2 minute read

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been configuring a brand new SCOM environment at work to monitor the SCCM infrastructure.

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SCCM Inbox monitor

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SCCM Status Messages

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SCCM 2012 Beta 2 Installation

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Package Distribution

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Active Directory

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ADSI

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SCCM Clients Maintenance Windows

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Backup Management Packs

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SCOM; RMS Cluster

Event ID 29104 on SCOM RMS cluster

1 minute read

First of all, apologies for not been able to blog for over a month. I changed jobs. I started my new job 4 weeks ago, with all the things going on, I couldn’...

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SCOM; Network Devices

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mof files

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RegKeyToMOF

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WMI

Clean Up Old Hardware Inventory Data

1 minute read

In SCCM, after removing WMI classes that are no longer required from configuration.mof and sms_def.mof, the inventory data still exists in few places.

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PerfMon

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Command Notification

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SCDPM

Disabling Auto Discovery in SCDPM 2010

2 minute read

System Center Data Protection Manager is not something I normally play with. Recently, I’ve been dobbed in to troubleshoot an issue with remote sites network...

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SQL Express

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Language

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BITS

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GPO

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PS Remoting

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Skype

SCOM Alert Notification–Using Skype

2 minute read

Recently I’ve been wanting to setup SCOM notifications in my test environment that can reach me even when I’m not home.. However, I had two problem: I don’t ...

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Fun

Scripting 101 For George

1 minute read

Yesterday at work, we were having a chat with George, the team leader of our infrastructure 3rd level support team. George told me since he’s a team leader, ...

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Lab

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CentOS

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Vyatta

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70-243

Passed MCTS for SCCM 2012 Exam today

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Around 8-9 months ago, a friend of mine gave me a copy of beta version of trainer’s handbooks for Microsoft course 10747A (Administering SCCM 2012) and 10748...

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MCTS

Passed MCTS for SCCM 2012 Exam today

1 minute read

Around 8-9 months ago, a friend of mine gave me a copy of beta version of trainer’s handbooks for Microsoft course 10747A (Administering SCCM 2012) and 10748...

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Study

Passed MCTS for SCCM 2012 Exam today

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Around 8-9 months ago, a friend of mine gave me a copy of beta version of trainer’s handbooks for Microsoft course 10747A (Administering SCCM 2012) and 10748...

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SCOM SDK

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APM

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CSPP

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SCSM SCOM CI Connector

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Certification

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TechNet

My 2 Cents to the TechNet Subscription

5 minute read

If you have been to my blog before, you probably own or at least know what a TechNet subscription is. And you probably have heard about that Microsoft recent...

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SCOM Database

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SCUP

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System Center

System Center 2012 R2 Icons

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A while ago I extracted the icons from each System Center 2012 R2 products so I can use them in various Visio diagrams, PowerPoint presentations and Word doc...

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SCOM Dashboard

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Knowledge Base

Using an External Knowledge Base for OpsMgr

10 minute read

Summary I’ve been wanting to write a post on this topic for a while. Using an external knowledge base for OpsMgr is not something new. Many people have alrea...

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Surface Pro 2

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Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition

2 minute read

Nowadays, Visual Studio is definitely one of my top 5 most-used applications. I have also started using Visual Studio Online to store source codes few months...

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SCORCH

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RoyalTS

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SCOM; SquaredUp

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SCOM Installation

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Ignite

Presenting in Microsoft Ignite Australia

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Microsoft Ignite Australia is going to take place in Gold Coast, QLD between 17 – 20 November 2015. I am really honoured to co-present a session with the leg...

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DSC

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C#

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PowerShell DSC

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Lemontaste

New Blogger in the Family

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I have been blogging for six and half years and to this moment, I’m still enjoying it. Few months ago my better half has decided to start blogging as well. A...

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MyGet

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Azure Resource Manager

PowerShell Function to Get Azure AD Token

2 minute read

When making Azure Resource Manager REST API calls, you will firstly need to obtain an Azure AD authorization token and use it to construct the authorization ...

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REST API

PowerShell Function to Get Azure AD Token

2 minute read

When making Azure Resource Manager REST API calls, you will firstly need to obtain an Azure AD authorization token and use it to construct the authorization ...

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Kusto

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Azure AD

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Windows Admin Center

When Squared Up meets Windows Admin Center

2 minute read

I have been in the private preview for Project Honolulu (now called Windows Admin Center) for quite long time before it became GA and I am a big fan of it. I...

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PSScriptAnalyzer

PowerShell Module: PSPesterTest

1 minute read

Few weeks ago, the customer I was working for has a requirement that all the PowerShell scripts and in-house written modules must be validated against PSScri...

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AzureDevOps

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Xiaomi

My Journey to a Smarter Home (Part 2)

12 minute read

This is the 2nd part of the blog series. I have covered my home network setup using Ubiquiti Unifi devices in part 1, you can find it here. In this part, I w...

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Azure Blueprints

Sneak Peak of Azure Blueprints

3 minute read

Azure Blueprints have been announced and made available for public preview last month at Microsoft Ignite 2018. I have been on the private preview for few mo...

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Google Home

My Journey to a Smarter Home (Part 3)

10 minute read

This is the 3rd part of the blog series. I have covered my home network setup using Ubiquiti Unifi devices in part 1, and Xiaomi home automation products in ...

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Sonos

My Journey to a Smarter Home (Part 3)

10 minute read

This is the 3rd part of the blog series. I have covered my home network setup using Ubiquiti Unifi devices in part 1, and Xiaomi home automation products in ...

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Office 365

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JSON

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Azure DNS

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Working From Home

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Inside Azure Management

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What-if

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Raspberry Pi

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Container

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Docker

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GitHub

Use GitHub Super Linter in Azure Pipelines

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Recently, GitHub has released an open-sourced tool called Super Linter (Blog, Repo). It’s basically a swiss army knife of linters for a collection of languag...

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product review

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Synology

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GitHub Pages

Moved My Blog to GitHub Pages

3 minute read

You might wonder why does my blog look different now. This is because I have just moved it from a self-hosted WordPress site to GitHub Pages (running Jekyll)...

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Cooking

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Food

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Azure Networking

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Azure Purview

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Azure Data Factory

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