Blog Series: APIs and Powershell

Starting out on helpdesk and moving to systems administration, I never had any exposure to APIs and how to use them. I would be in meetings and people would start talking about APIs and this would be me. Instead of being clueless, I would rather know a little bit when people smarter than me start …

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Creating Custom Azure Log Analytics Logs

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Azure Log Analytics has the ability to monitor a lot of technologies via the many solutions you can add to the service. However, what if you want to log something that isn’t available as a solution? Azure Log Analytics includes a REST API that you can post logs to. Using the the REST API will …

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Getting Started with Powershell: Quick tips

When I first started learning Powershell, like many other technologies, I was self-taught. In this post I’ll share some Powershell quick tips I wish I knew when I was starting out. This first one may seem fairly obvious, but again this is targeted for those just starting to learn Powershell. Often times peoples interest in …

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Visual Studio Code Powershell

Microsoft has knocked it out of the park with Visual Studio Code. I’ve seen a lot of positive feedback for it, even on one of the forums I read that isn’t related to programming or devs or IT Operations. For my purposes I’ve recently started using it for Powershell. And I wanted to share some …

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Enable Nested Virtualization in Hyper-V

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One of my favorite new features added in Hyper-V 2016, was nested virtualization. Nested virtualization is a great feature for labs or demo environments, but also Hyper-V containers. It’s also useful for running the Azure Stack Development Kit. I’ll show you how you can quickly enable nested virtualization in Hyper-v using Powershell. Note, the only …

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Automate Windows Service Monitors in SCOM

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Monitoring Windows services in SCOM is a vital part of any SCOM deployment. In this post I will show you how you can automate the creation of SCOM windows service monitors. The first thing you’ll need is Tao Yang’s OpsMgr SDK which I initially spoke about here. The next thing you’ll need is, is the …

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