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Introduction to Network Security Groups in Azure

Recently submitting this as an article and wanted to share it on my blog in case it might help...

Date: 04/08/2016

Deploying a Website with Content through Visual Studio with Resource Groups

UPDATED: This post has been updated to reflect the recent changes. If you are like me you were glued...

Date: 05/10/2015

Service Manager Launch Pad – Efficiency Management Pack for Service Desks

Many Service Manager Customers experience challenges when Customers call their Service Desks, they...

Date: 01/05/2015

Service Request Reports for System Center Service Manager 2012

So where are the Service Request reports???? If you use Service Manager for Service Requests, you...

Date: 11/18/2014

Using SelectSingleNode in PowerShell with XML Namespace (Azure VNetConfig)

So, been doing a lot of work in Azure lately and having to solve problems I have not had to deal...

Date: 11/13/2014

Shutting down a Azure VM with Azure Automation

Recently I was asked how to shut down an Azure VM with Azure Automation, it can be a slightly...

Date: 11/05/2014

New-AzureStorageAccount : Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: parameters.Name

Recently I have been working on automating deploying an IaaS infrastructure on Azure.. Part of this...

Date: 11/04/2014

Creating a Database Programmatically with SMO and XML

I was working on a project with some colleagues about patching systems via Orchestrator. This...

Date: 10/23/2014

Pulling all Enumerations and Child Nodes with PowerShell SCSM 2012 R2

I have been working with a colleague of mine Chris Jones on some reporting components for Service...

Date: 07/08/2014

Adding the Description field to Service Manager 2012 Cubes

I want to first caveat this post that modifying the cube via PowerShell could break something and it...

Date: 11/15/2013

Pulling Performance Counters from WMI with PowerShell

Recently I had a colleague that was asking me how they could pull performance counters manually....

Date: 10/29/2013

.NET Framework 3.5 Features fails to install

I just blogged about a gotcha in the Azure Pack install when configuring Site Roles and realized...

Date: 10/08/2013

Fatal error during installation : Site role install for Azure Pack

I have recently been spending time playing with the Azure Pack and came across a few gotchas that I...

Date: 10/08/2013

“Unable to find required management pack in search paths.” - Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Console

This happened to me a while ago and figured I would share with the community. I was happily creating...

Date: 09/18/2013

Configuration Manager - distmgr.log : ERROR ExecMethod(): Failed to execute AppCreate2.

I recently ran across an issue in an environment where packages were no longer getting installed on...

Date: 07/22/2013

Creating TypeProjections for System Center Service Manager 2012

A common issue I see with Service Manager deployments are Queues, Views, etc created with...

Date: 06/24/2013

Using PowerShell to Check DataWarehouse Job Module Status

I have had many times where I would want to see what is going on with all the ETL jobs, MPSync,...

Date: 06/11/2013

Monitor System Center 2012 – Service Manager workflows with Orchestrator

I have came across multiple times where the Service Manager workflows stop running. When this...

Date: 06/06/2013

Using Time Intelligence for Dynamic Filters with Service Manager 2012 OLAP Cubes - Part 1

This will be a series of posts in reference to using Time Intelligence with Service Manager 2012....

Date: 06/06/2013

Using Time Intelligence for Dynamic Filters with Service Manager 2012 OLAP Cubes - Part 2

In my previous blog post Using Time Intelligence for Dynamic Filters with Service Manager 2012 OLAP...

Date: 06/06/2013