tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79339212257986549202024-03-19T03:11:40.842+00:00Kevin Greene IT BlogKevin Greene's IT Blog. This is a blog about all things Cloud and Datacenter!Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.comBlogger387125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-73961555515660940062020-07-16T09:17:00.001+01:002020-07-16T09:17:37.825+01:00Speaking at the Inside Azure Management SummitA few months back, I was part of the authoring team who worked on the latest release of our free Inside Azure Management book. Following on from the continued success and popularity of the book, we've decided to host the inaugural (and also free) 'Inside Azure Management Virtual Summit'.
We're kicking off on Thursday 23rd July as a full-day event and we've got a bunch of MVP's, Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-70519079695631992532020-07-01T17:02:00.001+01:002020-07-01T17:02:48.454+01:00Renewed as an MVP for 2020 - 2021!The 1st of July is known to Microsoft MVP's all around the world as 'F5 Day' - mainly because many keyboard F5 buttons get worked extra-hard when MVP's are refreshing their inbox and/or online MVP profile to see if they've been re-awarded for another year!
Thankfully for me, I didn't break my F5 button while finding out I've been renewed as a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP for Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-89225229092546330882020-06-11T18:57:00.002+01:002020-06-12T09:16:20.287+01:00Inside Azure Management Book (2020 Edition) Released!Things have been pretty quiet on this blog over the last while and one of reasons for this is that I've been pushing hard with some of my awesome MVP friends to author and publish the latest edition of our 'Inside Azure Management' book - fully free and available for download to the Azure community!
Keeping up with the lightning pace that Microsoft Azure is moving at, this book Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-77981208463602927012020-04-25T11:59:00.002+01:002020-04-25T11:59:32.841+01:00Global Azure Virtual Bootcamp 2020This week sees the kick off for the annual Global Azure Bootcamp and due to the restrictions across the world with COVID-19, the event has gone fully virtual - which means more access to sessions for more attendees!
The event runs from Thursday 23rd April - Saturday 25th April with a good mixture of live presentations and pre-recorded sessions - all dropping on hourly across multiple Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-90603774440211157852020-01-14T22:38:00.001+00:002020-01-14T22:57:17.340+00:00Presenting at Microsoft Ignite The Tour: LondonThis week, I'm heading back over to the UK to present two sessions at Microsoft Ignite The Tour: London.
The two-day conference is sold out and will be hosted in the massive ExCel venue right in the middle of London City. I'll be accompanied by some of my Ergo colleagues and will be presenting the following two sessions on Friday:
Timeslot:
Friday 17th January 09:00am - 09:15am
Session CodeKevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-31831496208776747092019-11-18T12:24:00.000+00:002019-11-18T12:42:33.496+00:00Speaking at Experts Live EU 2019 in Prague!It's been super-quiet on this blog lately, mainly in part due to the preparation I've been putting in for conference season, which kicked off over the last month or so. This week, I get to represent Ireland while I present a few sessions at one of my favourite conferences - Experts Live Europe - which returns to Prague for a second year after a very successful event last time out.
This Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-38407110995958611312019-07-02T10:16:00.001+01:002020-07-01T14:05:42.877+01:00Renewed as an MVP for 2019 - 2020!For all Microsoft MVP's around the world, yesterday (1st July aka 'F5 Day') was the day that we all receive notification as to whether or not we've been renewed as MVP's for another year. Thankfully someone in Microsoft thinks I'm doing a good job for the community and I was happy to see my inbox lighting up with the all-important email stating I'd been renewed as a Cloud and Datacenter Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-86359713521007864862019-06-12T11:28:00.003+01:002022-01-07T15:33:09.071+00:00SCOM 2019 Prerequisites ScriptI've recently been involved in deploying some new SCOM 2019 environments for our customers and I thought it'd be a good time to publish an updated version of my original SCOM Prerequisites PowerShell script.
This SCOM prerequisites script is a lot simpler than my previous one and I've updated it to remove the requirement for .NET 3.5 Framework components as well as grabbing the new download Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-6109460118131036962019-05-15T17:13:00.000+01:002019-05-15T17:16:09.852+01:00Presenting at CDC 2019 in GermanyNext week, I have another opportunity to head over to Germany and visit the lovely town of Hanau just outside Frankfurt - where I'll be presenting a session at the awesome Cloud & Datacenter (CDC) conference organised by my good friend and well-known MVP Carsten Rachfal.
I had a great time presenting over there last year and attendees at the conference were treated to Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-83560716617684697282019-04-27T10:33:00.001+01:002019-05-08T16:47:45.010+01:00Presenting at the Global Online Azure Bootcamp 2019For the last number of years, the Azure community has come together on a single day to host simultaneous Bootcamp events across the globe - with the single goal of sharing our knowledge about what's new and cool with Azure.
I've presented at a number of these previous events - usually hosted in our local Microsoft office here in Ireland but this year unfortunately, we had some issues retaining Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-34464927265275853512019-03-28T09:42:00.001+00:002020-06-11T18:55:29.430+01:00Just Released: Inside Azure Management BookI'm happy to announce that we're ready to publish our new book titled 'Inside Azure Management'.
Our hope for this book is that it will become the market leader in the Azure Management space and when you consider the team of authors and technical reviewers that are involved, this should be easily achievable!
I had an epic time working on this book and it was a pleasure to collaborate again Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-68967474542897302502019-03-14T17:58:00.003+00:002019-03-14T18:33:18.656+00:00System Center 2019 is now Generally Available!Following on from last weeks post, Microsoft has just announced the General Availability release of System Center 2019.
This release is part of the long term servicing channel (LTSC) license model and comes with a support bandwidth of 10 years.
With full support for Windows Server 2019 across the stack, here's some of the additional capabilities that you get with System Center 2019:
Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-17600359091791881512019-03-08T15:56:00.000+00:002019-03-08T15:56:12.443+00:00SCOM 2019 Lands This Month and Semi-Annual Channel Is No More!Yesterday, Microsoft announced that System Center 2019 would be made Generally Available this month (March 2019) and sandwiched into the same announcement came some interesting news about last years previously released Semi-Annual Channel licensing model.
The upcoming release of System Center 2019 is licensed as part of the traditional Long Term Services Model (LTSC) and provides the Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-25495802437987288352018-11-29T17:29:00.002+00:002018-11-30T11:55:17.928+00:00SCOM - New Version Agnostic Naming Convention for Microsoft Management PacksMicrosoft today announced a change for the naming convention of future SCOM management packs.
In the past, when you wanted a management pack for a specific operating system or application version, you would search for something like 'Windows Server Operating System 2008 Management Pack' or 'DNS Server 2016'.
Going forward, all new Microsoft management packs will follow a new version-agnosticKevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-40807374271245844502018-09-26T19:53:00.000+01:002018-09-26T19:53:52.950+01:00Speaking at Experts Live Europe 2018This week, I'm over at the Microsoft Ignite conference learning as much as I can about the many new releases announced in the Azure and System Center world. All this information is an excellent way to prepare for my upcoming presentation at the awesome Experts Live Europe conference in Prague next month.
If you haven't heard of Experts Live Europe or just haven't had a chance to attend in Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-2076835060791975902018-09-22T08:00:00.001+01:002018-09-22T08:00:12.276+01:00SCOM - GSM to Azure Application Insights Migration Walkthrough (Part 1)In my previous post, I talked about the recently announced retirement of the Global Service Monitor (GSM) feature and the need to start migrating your existing web application tests to Azure Application Insights. In this post, I'll walk through the migration process to help get you started.
Prerequisites
The migration script has the following prerequisites:
Azure Subscription - Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-75460310480757766372018-09-20T10:24:00.000+01:002018-09-20T10:25:32.208+01:00Presenting at Cloud Camp 2018It’s coming around to that time of year again when conference season kicks into full swing and over the coming months, I’ll be attending and presenting at some of the best Cloud and Datacenter conferences on the planet.
First up is Cloud Camp - Ireland’s best Microsoft Cloud and Windows Server conference. Put together by MicroWarehouse and kicking off on October 17th in Dublin’s National Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-68680267814498744092018-09-17T21:02:00.001+01:002018-09-22T08:04:54.304+01:00SCOM - Global Service Monitor Heads to the Retirement HomeLast week, Microsoft announced that Global Service Monitor (GSM) - the cool add-on for SCOM that gave us 'Outside-In' monitoring capability - will be hanging up its synthetic transactions and heading to the legacy solutions retirement home on 7th November 2018.
This solution was a very useful addition to our SCOM deployments when we wanted to get an external perspective of the health Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-16047634600737164442018-07-25T17:47:00.003+01:002018-07-25T17:47:34.707+01:00SCOM - New Management Packs for Connecting to OMSMicrosoft have just announced the following three new management packs to connect your SCOM environments to Azure Log Analytics/OMS:
For SCOM 1801, download the management pack from here.
For SCOM 2016, download the management pack from here.
For SCOM 2012 R2, download the management packs from here.
These new MP's contain a new on-boarding wizard (shown below) Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-39036853237613351422018-07-25T17:22:00.000+01:002018-07-25T17:22:10.134+01:00SCOM 1807 - What's NewYesterday, Microsoft announced the General Availability of the latest release of our favourite monitoring platform - SCOM 1807.
SCOM 1807 is the second release this year in Microsoft's new Semi-Annual Channel licensing model and it follows hot on the heels of its predecessor SCOM 1801.
As promised by Microsoft, I found the in-place upgrade process from 1801 to 1807 seamless and not much Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-18427459055811260402018-07-06T11:53:00.001+01:002018-07-06T11:53:56.178+01:00Awarded Microsoft MVP 2018 for Cloud and Datacenter Management!Last Sunday (1st July) I received a very welcome email into my inbox stating I'd been renewed as a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP for 2018!
This email from Microsoft confirms that I'm now moving into my 7th year as an MVP and it's always a relief when it comes in as there's no guarantee that any of us will get renewed - no matter how much you think you've contributed to the community Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-19565844027091481132018-06-15T10:28:00.003+01:002018-06-15T10:28:58.840+01:00Azure Monitor - Alerting Gets an UpgradeEarlier this week, Microsoft announced some upgrades to the alerts experience inside Azure Monitor and if you've ever worked with SCOM, then a few of these changes will have a pretty familiar look about them.
New Alert Enumeration Experience
There's a new Alert Enumeration feature which delivers a centralized view of all the alerts that have occurred across your various Azure deploymentsKevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-66678151115837052362018-06-15T00:14:00.000+01:002018-06-15T15:01:04.964+01:00Azure Monitor Alert Severity Mappings
When I first started using SCOM, one of the things that I had to quickly get my head around was how alerts that were generated by rules were defined with a Severity that mapped to an integer value (e.g. Critical = 2, Warning = 1, and Informational = 0).
With alerts in Azure Monitor, Microsoft have taken a similar approach where they have defined five alert severity levels - each one Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-8555427964593030742018-06-13T15:00:00.003+01:002018-06-13T15:03:02.390+01:00The OMS Portal is Moving to AzureOver the last couple of years, I've worked a lot with the awesome Microsoft Operations Management Suite (aka OMS) and at one of the presentations I attended during Microsoft Ignite last year, it was announced that they would soon be retiring the OMS Portal and integrating all of it's functionality directly into the Azure Portal.
Earlier this week, Microsoft confirmed that the OMS Portal would Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933921225798654920.post-4142565968827033212018-06-13T13:14:00.000+01:002018-06-13T13:14:20.676+01:00SCOM - New Community MP to Multi-Home Large Numbers of AgentsMicrosoft's Kevin Holman has just released a very useful new community MP for SCOM that enables you to multi-home large numbers of agents in a phased and controlled time-frame. This is perfect for any large side-by-side migrations you might be planning from SCOM 2012 R2 to SCOM 2016 or the latest SCOM 180x release.
On earlier versions of SCOM, I've used the excellent 'Extended Agent Info Kevin Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485844569754734795noreply@blogger.com0