Canberra Premier Field Engineering: Team Blog
Technical notes from Canberra's team of Microsoft Field Engineers.
Windows Firewall Public profile when using IPsec
Hi there - Jimmy here with a brief summary of an IPsec / Network Location Awareness interaction...
Date: 08/16/2018
SCOM - Add network device to network discovery rule via PowerShell
I posted a powershell script here to create a new network discovery rule. You can only create one...
Date: 08/08/2017
Windows Server 2016 - Nano Server and how it has changed already
One of the things that I was most excited about working with in Windows Server 2016 was Nano Server....
Date: 07/18/2017
SCOM – Remotely update Management Group configuration on SCOM agent via PowerShell
One of my customers installed the agent via SCCM and it had a typo in the management group name....
Date: 07/10/2017
SCOM - Create new network discovery rule via PowerShell
I recently had to setup a lot of SCOM management groups with the same network discovery rule. I soon...
Date: 07/10/2017
Change OMS Log Analytics Retention Period in the Azure Portal
Where previously you could only change the retention settings for OMS Log Analytics using...
Date: 01/25/2017
Change “Create Request” button-label on SCSM 2012 R2/2016 HTML5 Portal to “Create Incident”
Default HTML5 portal, has button labelled “Create Request” which in default configuration opens the...
Date: 12/09/2016
OMS Search Query Command “Display”
Saved searches has been in OMS Log Analytics since the beginning. Though if you preferred a specific...
Date: 11/18/2016
Maintenance Mode for OMS Alerts
Azure Automation Runbook to enable and disable OMS Alerts OMS is a hyper scale, hybrid and...
Date: 11/16/2016
Hide Recommendations from your OMS SCOM Assessment dashboard
OMS Log Analytics can now provide insight on the health and risk of your SCOM management groups. The...
Date: 11/11/2016
OMS Data Collector API and Twitter Sentiment Demo (Part 2)
This blog was written into 2 parts. You can find Part 1 – Create OMS Data Collector Azure App API...
Date: 11/08/2016
OMS Data Collector API and Twitter Sentiment Demo (Part 1)
With OMS Data Collector API you can now input any data into your OMS workspace, and not just...
Date: 11/07/2016
OMS Assessments and Performance data not showing
I signed up for a preview access to the SCOM Assessment in OMS to criticise it, (let's be honest)....
Date: 09/23/2016
Upgrading Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows 10 Mobile with Microsoft Intune and SCCM
So you want to upgrade your Windows Phone 8.1 fleet to Windows 10? If you are using Intune Hybrid...
Date: 08/10/2016
Upgrading Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows 10 Mobile with Microsoft Intune
So you want to upgrade your Windows Phone 8.1 fleet to Windows 10? If you are using Microsoft Intune...
Date: 08/10/2016
SCEP Certificate Deployment - Troubleshooting Reference
The below diagram is a pretty common Intune/SCCM hybrid configuration used to deploy certificates to...
Date: 06/13/2016
System Center Operations Manager – Change the Agent Default Action to Local System via PowerShell
There are very few reasons when you’ll need to set up the agent default action account to use a...
Date: 12/22/2015
OpsMgr - SQL Scripts for Dashboards
OpsMgr collects a lot of awesome data about your service. Why not display it? You might want to use...
Date: 11/24/2015
System Center Operations Manager PowerShell grid Widget, create an effective dashboard targeted to service owner/contact:
Hi There Steve here, posting a blog entry for my colleague Arif the great OpsMgr PFE. He doesn't...
Date: 11/18/2015
Consolidated list of AGPM resources
Need to setup, tune or troubleshoot the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) console? Here is my...
Date: 11/12/2015
Basic Skype for Business/Lync 2013 VDI Plugin Test Lab
Hi all I don't get to see the Lync 2013 VDI Plugin in action too much and so I thought I would try...
Date: 11/10/2015
Skype for Business Management Shell: The string is missing the terminator
Hi All if you see the error "The string is missing the terminator: '. + CategoryInfo : ParserError:...
Date: 09/23/2015
Some simple Powershell commands to distribute users in a Skype/Lync Pool by A-K and L-Z
Hi All I recently wanted to script up distributing users A-K and L-Z across two EE pools. I wanted...
Date: 09/02/2015
Simplifying creation of Office Web App 2013 Farm Certificates
Hi All I wrote a blog a while back on deploying an Office Web App Farm for Lync Server 2013. It has...
Date: 08/19/2015
Powershell script to change the InstanceSize for a bunch of Azure Virtual Machines
Hi All Lately I have been living the Azure dream, madly trying to build every possible Skype and...
Date: 08/12/2015
Configuring Skype for Business Websites IIS Log Directory on a range of Front End Servers
Hi All I often help out customers performing builds of a number of Skype Servers and so I often find...
Date: 07/29/2015
Issue deploying Skype/Lync Reports when mirroring SQL - Cannot grant ReportsReadOnlyRole to user
Hi All I hit an issue recently deploying Skype reports into a SQL Server backend store that was...
Date: 07/28/2015
SHA512 certificates preventing RTCSRV from starting
Hi All just a quick note about SHA512 certificates and their effect on Lync Server 2013 and Skype...
Date: 07/16/2015
Installing Skype for Business 2015 Administrative Tools
Hi All I wanted to script up the installation of Skype for Business Administration Tools on a remote...
Date: 07/13/2015
Installing Lync Server 2013 Administrative Tools using command line
Hi All I recently needed to script up the installation of Lync Server 2013 Administration Tools on a...
Date: 05/25/2015
AGPM Version Numbers
With a new release of Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) on its way, there might be some of you...
Date: 05/12/2015
Creating Lync DNS records with Server 2012 R2 DNS Cmdlets
Hi Everyone I have been playing with Skype and Lync in Azure of late for my own personal labs (this...
Date: 05/06/2015
Error deploying a Azure Virtual Machine with 2 NICs - Secondary network interface is supported only for deployments on virtual network
Hi all I have been playing around a lot with Azure lately as I am trying to make the move to cloud...
Date: 04/30/2015
If you're looking to ramp on Skype for Business On Premises here are some useful resources well worth a visit
Hi all in my job as a PFE I spend a lot of time teaching workshops on a variety of Skype/Lync...
Date: 04/21/2015
Skype for Business Technical Preview Client Released
Kewl news, yesterday Microsoft released the Skype for Business Technical Preview client. I have...
Date: 03/17/2015
Lync Online is changing it's name to Skype for Business
Hi All I am very excited about the latest news from the Skype team. Changes are coming to Lync...
Date: 03/02/2015
SQL Server 2014 – Updated VLF creation algorithm
Update: Someone just pointed out that Paul Randal beat me to posting on this exact topic by 2 days!...
Date: 01/07/2015
OpsMgr 2012 - Tuning your Management Pack via PowerShell
I recently had to go through an exercise of tuning an Exchange 2010 Management Pack. Let's just say...
Date: 11/07/2014
If you're looking to ramp on Lync Online (and Office365) here are some useful resources well worth a visit
Hi All Last week I put together a Lync On Premises resources list and that has been pretty popular,...
Date: 06/18/2014
Getting information from PAL XML files with PowerShell
Hi All, Marc Dudok here again with a quick little post before the long weekend is upon us. I had a...
Date: 04/22/2014
TechNet Live Series - Transforming the Datacentre
Join Jeff Alexander and Andrew McMurray throughout this 12 part TechNet Live Series as they discuss...
Date: 03/26/2014
Security Patching and You
In a lot of my customer engagements at Microsoft I get to see how a lot of customers do their...
Date: 07/23/2013
XPERF Boot Traces
Very quick post simply to give me a copy/paste location for a quick XPERF boot trace on the run. If...
Date: 05/21/2013
Setting up a Office Web App Farm for Lync Server 2013
Hi All I have been recently playing around with an Office Web App Server deployment to support a...
Date: 05/02/2013