A few weeks ago the Operations Management Suite (OMS) product team announced that you could include search results in webhook payloads. Article here. This is really useful if you are into automation and specifically Azure Automation. It is now much easier in my opinion to get pertinent data to Azure Automation from OMS when you …
When using a Hybrid Worker by default Azure Automation will run as the machine context. This is fine until you start trying to do things like make changes in Active Directory or other services that require a login other than the machine. This is fairly easy to setup and assumes that you’ve already setup a …
This is more of a note to self blog post, but Operations Management Suite (OMS) log search is case sensitive. If you are new to OMS, like I am, this may help save you some time.Examples:If you type in the log search “Type=perf” you get the following result: Unknown type ‘perf’ You actually get …
I recently hooked my home lab into Microsoft Operations Management Suite (MSOMS or OMS) and have been dabbling in Azure Automation. I wanted to put together some quick examples of triggering automation through event logs in Orchestrator and compare it to OMS with Azure Automation.This is not a super technical deep dive of automation, the …
This is a bit off topic for my blog, but none the less I want to put it out there.I have a Surface Pro 3 and I put Windows 10 on it when RTM was released. It is my personal opinion that that build of Windows 10 has been the best build and the quality …
Microsoft today released their own HTML 5 self-service portal for Service Manager 2012. This is big news as the old portal was to be honest, just awful. It was awful to install, and awful to use and it required its own server. This lead to companies like Cireson and Sylliance creating their own HTML 5 …
I’m not sure if its laziness, a product of being “too busy,” or brilliance but people seem to love Spiceworks hashtag system. For those of you not aware, Spiceworks allows your helpdesk analysts to email the ticketing system with a # and a word or words behind it to automatically have it close and assign …