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"Corporate" Blog of Daniele Muscetta, Premier Field Engineer.
So long and thanks for all the fish
This will be my last post on this blog. I have resigned from Microsoft. The past twelve years have...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 09/15/2015
Using Wire Data in Operations Management Suite Log Search
A little while ago we enabled in the OMS Portal the first iteration of a ‘Wire Data’ solution –...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 09/09/2015
Operations Management Suite Log Search How To: Part IX – the DISTINCT command
A nifty little addition to our language has been recently pushed out: the DISTINCT command. Now,...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 06/29/2015
Operations Management Suite Log Search How To: Part VIII – the IN operator and subsearches
This is the eight installment of a Series that walks thru the concepts of Operations Management...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 05/30/2015
Which machines are reporting to Azure Operational Insights? Where is my data coming from? What data and how much is it?
I am sure you have seen our troubleshooting blog post that helps resolve Operational Insights...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 04/07/2015
Monitoring SQL Backup Failures with Azure Operational Insights Search and Dashboards
Besides the SQL Server Assessment Intelligence Pack, you can also use Log Management functionality...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 02/21/2015
Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part VII – Measure Sum() and Where command
This is the seventh installment of a Series that walks thru the concepts of Microsoft Azure...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 11/09/2014
IIS MP Event-Alerting Rules’s OpInsights Searches Equivalents
Just for the kicks, the other day I run an Excel export of the IIS8 MP with MPViewer, and then I...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 11/04/2014
Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part VI – Measure Avg(), and an exploration of Type=PerfHourly
This is the sixth installment of a Series that walks thru the concepts of Microsoft Azure...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 10/30/2014
Azure Operational Insights Search HowTo: Part V – Max() and Min() Statistical functions with Measure command
This is the fifth installment of a Series (I don’t know yet how many posts they will be in the end,...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 10/29/2014
Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part IV – Introducing the MEASURE command
This is the fourth installment of a Series (I don’t know yet how many posts they will be in the end,...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 10/28/2014
Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part III – Manipulating Results: the pipeline “|” and Search Commands
[Edited October 27th 2014 - System Center Advisor is now a part of the new Microsoft Azure...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 10/19/2014
Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part II – More on Filtering, using Boolean Operators, the Time Dimension, Numbers and Ranges
[Edited October 27th 2014 - System Center Advisor is now a part of the new Microsoft Azure...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 10/18/2014
Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part I - How to filter big data
[Edited October 27th 2014 - System Center Advisor is now a part of the new Microsoft Azure...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 10/18/2014
Useful Operational Insights Search Query Collection
[Edited October 27th 2014 - System Center Advisor is now a part of the new Microsoft Azure...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 10/18/2014
W3C IIS Logs Search in Microsoft Azure Operational Insights
[Edited October 27th 2014 - System Center Advisor is now a part of the new Microsoft Azure...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 09/19/2014
Microsoft Monitoring Agent, System Center Operations Manager and Visual Studio Application Insights
Since the release of System Center 2012 R2 Preview (and more after GA was announced) a lot of people...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 11/24/2013
Programmatically create APM objects and configuration (w/ APM Explorer sample app)
I have been speaking to multiple customers, and a lot of them had the same feedback: “the APM...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 08/02/2013
Lonely blog for almost a year, and see you at MMS 2013 next week
Wow, I haven’t written here in a while. My last post on this blog is from over a year ago, and...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 04/06/2013
Operations Manager 2012 SP1 BETA is out, and some cool things you might not (yet) know about it
It has been a couple of months since we released the CTP2 release (I had blogged about that here...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 09/16/2012
Operations Manager 2012 SP1 CTP2 is out, and my TechED NA talk (MGT302)
As you might have already heard, this has been an amazing week at TechEd North America: System...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 06/16/2012
Boris’s OpsMgr Tools – Updated
Over the years, Boris has released a set of phenomenal tools, that saved lives of OpsMgr...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 02/19/2012
A couple of OpsMgr / APM Posts
Just some shameless personal plug here, pointing out that I recently wrote two technical posts on...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 01/24/2012
Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate is out of the bag!
Go read the announcement at...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 11/10/2011
Repost: Useful SetSPN tips
I just saw that my former colleague (PFE) Tristan has posted an interesting note about the use of...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 10/19/2011
A month in a new life
Hey, I have just realized that I have been in my new PM role for a month already – time...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 08/18/2011
I have been chosen; Farewell my friends...
I have been in Premier Field Engineering for nearly 7 years (it was not even called PFE when I...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 07/06/2011
Improved ACS Partitions Query
This has been sitting on my hard drive for a long time. Long story short, the report I posted at...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 05/04/2011
OpsMgr Agents and Gateways Failover Queries
The following article by Jimmy Harper explains very well how to set up agents and gateways’ failover...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 12/23/2010
Got Orphaned OpsMgr Objects?
Have you ever wondered what would happen if, in Operations Manager, you’d delete a Management...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 12/17/2010
Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.5.LogicalDisk.DiskBytesPerSecond Type Mismatch
I have had the following in my notes for a while… and I have not blogged in a while (been too busy)...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 10/22/2010
Microsoft Way
In the last couple of weeks we have been driving thru America from the east coast (New York) to the...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 07/18/2010
OpsMgr Event IDs Spreadsheet
I work in support (mostly with System Center Operations Manager, as you know), and I work with event...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 06/23/2010
How to convert (and fixup) the RedHat RPM to run on Debian/Ubuntu
In an earlier post I had shown how I got the Xplat agent running on Ubuntu. I perfected the...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 06/21/2010
Audit Collection Services Database Partitions Size Report
A number of people I have talked to liked my previous post on ACS sizing. One thing that was not...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 05/05/2010
A few thoughts on sizing Audit Collection System
People were already collecting logs with MOM, so why not the security log? Some people were doing...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 03/18/2010
OpsMgr Eventlog analysis with Powershell
The following technique should already be understood by any powersheller. Here we focus on...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 12/16/2009
Invoking Methods on the Xplat agent with WINRM
So I was testing other stuff tonight, to be honest, but I got pinged on Instant Messenger by my geek...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 10/26/2009
PS> Get-Milk
I printed a tshirt for Sara with a baby-friendly Powershell cmdlet ("Get-Milk"). She already seems...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 09/17/2009
The mystery of the lost registry values
During the OpsMgr Health Check engagement we use custom code to assess the customer’s...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 09/10/2009
SCX Evolutions
During the beta of the Cross-Platform extensions and of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2,...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 07/19/2009
Using the SCX Agent with WSMan from Powershell v2
So Powershell v2 adds a nice bunch of Ws-Man related cmdlets. Let’s see how we can use them to...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 06/01/2009
Installing the OpsMgr 2007 R2 SCX Agent on Ubuntu
You know since the beta1 of Xplat I have been busy with modifying the Redhat management pack and...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 05/30/2009
Programmatically Check for Management Pack updates in OpsMgr 2007 R2
One of the cool new features of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is the possibility to check...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 11/29/2008
CentOS discovery in OpsMgr2007 R2 beta
Here we go again. Now that the OpsMgr2007 R2 beta is out, with an improved and revamped version of...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 11/23/2008
Protecting custom Resolution State in OpsMgr 2007
In System Center Operations Manager 2007, you can add and remove resolution states for your alerts...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 09/13/2008
CentOS 5 Management Pack for OpsMgr SCX
As I mentioned here, I have been testing the SCX beta.Not having one of the "supported" platforms...
Author: Daniele Muscetta Date: 05/13/2008