Category Archives: Azure

OMS welcomes the new “Azure Analytics Query Language”

Posted on 02/08/2017 by

If you are a using OMS Log Analytics you know that the query language offers some powerful features to extract, aggregate, analyze and visualize collected data. However, there are times when some restrictions kick in and you have to find … Continue reading →

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OMS View Designer – Use Name & Value Separator

Posted on 13/07/2017 by

If you are designing views on the OMS dashboard you rely on collected events. There are times when you want to parse values and only use parts of the field values. But how can this be done if data is … Continue reading →

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Use Github for your Visual Studio projects

Posted on 27/03/2017 by

Depending on the projects I’m working on i either use VSO/TFS or Github. While VSO/TFS integration is part of Visual Studio, Github is not. But there is an add-on available that allows you to enable Github integration into Visual Studio. … Continue reading →

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Manage Linux Servers with Microsoft OMS

Posted on 15/02/2017 by

Linux is becoming more and more popular for Microsoft-focused people. Why? First, Microsoft is heavily investing in this area. If you look back some years, the strategy when it comes to non-Microsoft workloads completely changed. Second, many companies want the … Continue reading →

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Docker Container Management – Windows Container Management Basics

Posted on 08/01/2017 by

Containers are around for a long time in the Linux world. To Windows admins however they are somewhat new. During the last months lots of articles, blog posts, webinars and sessions about containers have been published, mainly about what containers … Continue reading →

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Visualization Options for OMS Log Search Results

Posted on 11/11/2016 by

When using search queries in OMS, a list view is used to display all the results one after the other. The advantage of this view is, that you can easily access all the available properties of the collected events.

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Conditional views in OMS using data-flow verification

Posted on 09/11/2016 by

In an OMS view you can enable data-flow verification and define a query that should be executed when someone accesses the OMS website. If the query returns no data, you can display a message that informs the user that there … Continue reading →

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Azure Resource Locks

Posted on 04/10/2016 by

In my last post I described how to use Azure Resource Policies to keep your environment clean. However, Azure Resource Policies do not protect you from unwanted modifications or even deletions of critical resources. This is where Azure Resource Locks … Continue reading →

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Azure Resource Policies – a complete walkthrough

Posted on 28/09/2016 by

When companies use Azure to deploy and use resources, they should use strict guidelines to safeguard their subscriptions and keep the quality at a high level. They need to make sure that resources are placed in the correct resource groups, … Continue reading →

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Visualize OMS Log Analytics data with PowerBI

Posted on 24/09/2016 by

In my last blog post I demonstrated how to collect and visualize Tesla Supercharger data with OMS Log Analytics. Now let’s take the next step and check out how this data can be forwarded to PowerBI to create interactive reports … Continue reading →

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