Thank you #Community and #Microsoft for this Awesome Year 2022! Happy Holidays

What a Year 2022!!

I like to thank you Community for Supporting, Sharing and Reading New Microsoft technologies on my Blog, Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn Community Groups 💗 I wish you all happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year 2023 may the Best Wishes comes true ! 🎄🥂

I’m very proud and Honored  on the Microsoft Global MVP Awards 2022-2023 !

• MVP Award for Cloud and Datacenter Management
• MVP Award for Windows Insiders
• MVP Award for Azure Hybrid

Thank you Microsoft Product Groups, MVP Award Program, Windows Insider Team, Azure Hybrid Team, Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI Team for all your support, NDA PGI sessions, and for the Awesome software, Features, solutions you are building 🙂
Wish you all Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year 2023 may the Best Wishes comes true ! 🎄🥂

Here are some Great links for Reading and Sharing :

JOIN these LinkedIn Community Groups for free and Share New Microsoft Technologies Together:

Windows Admin Center Community Group

Containers in the Cloud Community Group

Microsoft Azure Monitor & Security for Hybrid IT Community Group

Azure Hybrid Community Group

Azure DevOps Community Group

What I really love is the Microsoft Tech Community platform

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For Microsoft Azure Hybrid:

Azure Arc Jumpstart site

Azure Hybrid and Multi Cloud documentation

Microsoft Azure Arc Community monthly Meetup (GitHub)

Follow on Twitter for Azure Hybrid:

@ThomasMaurer

@LiorKamrat

@rcTibi

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For Windows Insiders:

Microsoft Windows Insiders Blog

Windows Insider Team on YouTube

The Windows Insider Program Team is really active on Twitter:
@WindowsInsider

@JenMsft

@NorthFaceHiker

@brandonleblanc

@amanda_lango

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Get started with the Windows Server Insider program

What’s New in Windows Server 2022

Overview of Windows Admin Center

What’s New in SQL Server 2022

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Happy Holidays and I wish you a Healthy 2021 #Azure #Cloud #MVPBuzz #Winserv #Security #Healthcare

It’s a year full of misery with the Covid-19 virus around the world. People who lose their loved one, It’s a very sad time for all of us! Microsoft technologies are still going on strong with new features in Azure Cloud Services but also supporting the people who are working in the healthcare, data analytics, Microsoft Teams for Collaboration and much more. But what I want to say to all HealthCare people over the world : THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE WORK YOU DO 👍
I have deep respect for you all !
Community, Microsoft Product Teams, MVP Lead, WIndows Insiders, I wish you and your family happy holidays and a Healthy 2021 with lot of Success! 🎄😍

 

#Microsoft OMS Service Map for Hybrid IT Management #MSOMS #Azure #Linux #HybridCloud

Service Map in #MSOMS automatically builds a common reference map of dependencies across your servers, processes, and third-party services. It discovers and maps all TCP dependencies, identifying surprise connections, remote third-party systems you depend on, and dependencies to traditional dark areas of your network such as Active Directory. Service Map discovers failed network connections that your managed systems are attempting to make, helping you identify potential server misconfiguration, service outages, and network issues.

Microsoft Operations Management Suite

OMS Service Map Overview of my Demo Environment

Machine Changes on HybridCloud01 Server

You now can see that the Previous Service State Running is changed in Stopped.

When you go more in details and look at the log Search in this event :

When this event is important to you you can make an OMS Alert on this Change :

With OMS Alert you can take actions like :

With Microsoft OMS Runbooks you can make Automation solutions for Hybrid IT Events.

Servicemap Summary

Servicemap Server Properties

OMS Service Map Performance

OMS Service Map Updates

More information about using Awesome Service Map solution in Operations Management Suite (OMS) you can find here

Configuring Service Map solution in Operations Management Suite (OMS)

Service Map gets its data from the Microsoft Dependency Agent. The Dependency Agent is dependent on the OMS Agent for its connections to OMS. This means that a server must have the OMS Agent installed and configured first, and then the Dependency Agent can be installed. The following table describes the connected sources that are supported by the Service Map solution.

Here you can find more information about configuring OMS Service Maps

Operations Management Suite (OMS) SDK

I like Microsoft OMS Service Map a lot because you can see the relations between Servers, Services, Applications in a Hybrid IT environment and
get proactive alerts to take action to keep your Hybrid Datacenters Healthy 🙂

#MSOMS Rocks
#MVPbuzz

Get Started here with Microsoft log #Analytics for Hybrid Environment #MSOMS #Azure #HybridCloud #Sysctr

Learn how to use Log Analytics in the Operations Management Suite to collect and analyze data generated by resources in your cloud and on-premises environments. Tutorials and other documentation show you how to get real-time insights across your workloads and servers regardless of physical location

Generate a PDF document about Log Analytics from Online documentation here

Proactive insights on workloads

• Assess the risk and health of major workloads such as Active Directory and SQL.
• View status of antimalware across your entire environment
• Identify missing system updates across Windows and Linux servers
• Detect potential configuration issues or deviations from identified best practices
• Create alerts, alert rules, and notification timeframes

Rich data visualization

• Analyze petabytes of data from the cloud with unlimited data retention
• Chart and compare complex statistical functions
• Use View Designer to create your own visualization of data queries
• Send datasets to Power BI for enhanced visualization capabilities

Visibility across clouds and platforms

• Connect to Linux and Windows virtual machines with one click
• Ingest data from System Center, Zabbix, and Nagios
• Collect any type of data through custom log collection
• Securely send log data through proxy server and OMS Gateway

 

Get started here with a Free OMS account

Happy Holidays and Thank you ! #MSOMS #Azure #AzureStack #Hyperv #Sysctr #HybridCloud

Thank you for following me @Jamesvandenberg
Thank you Community 😉
Thank you Microsoft
Wish you all the Best !
#MVPbuzz

What is Operations Management Suite (OMS)? Video #MSOMS #Azure #Sysctr #Linux

Gain control over any hybrid cloud. Manage and protect Azure or AWS, Windows Server or Linux, VMware or OpenStack with Microsoft cost-effective, all-in-one cloud IT management solution.

Try Microsoft Operations Management Suit today by Create a Free Account here

Here you find Microsoft OMS Technical Documentation Overview

Microsoft #Azure #SQL Database Management Pack for #Sysctr 2012

This diagram shows the classes used or defined in the management pack

The Microsoft Azure SQL Database Management Pack enables you to monitor the availability and performance of applications that are running on Microsoft Azure SQL Database.

Feature Summary
After configuration, the Microsoft Azure SQL Database Monitoring Management Pack offers the following functionalities:

• User-friendly wizard to discover Microsoft Azure SQL Database servers.
• Provides availability status of Microsoft Azure SQL Database server.
• Collects and monitors health of Microsoft Azure SQL Database databases.
  • Space monitoring:
    • Used space
    • Free space
    • Total allocated quota
  • Track the total number of databases per server
  • Successful connections count
  • Failed connections count
  • Number of deadlocks
  • Throttling/long transactions count
  • Connections blocked by firewall count
• Collects and monitors performance information:
  • Average memory per session
  • Total memory per session
  • Total CPU time per session
  • Total I/O per session
  • Number of database sessions
  • Maximum Transaction execution time
  • Maximum Transaction lock count
  • Maximum Transaction log space used
  • Network Egress/Ingress bandwidth
  • Percentage of CPU used
  • Percentage of workers used
  • Percentage of CPU used
• Ability to define Custom thresholds for each monitor to configure the warning and critical alerts.
• Run-as profile to securely connect to Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
• Detailed knowledge to guide the IT operator with troubleshooting the problem.
• Custom tasks to redirect the user to the Microsoft Azure SQL Database online portal.
• Custom query support to enable application-specific availability and performance monitoring.
• Dashboard functionality

You can download the Microsoft Azure SQL Database Management Pack for System Center 2012 here

#Microsoft OMS Log Analytics Forwarder #MSOMS

The OMS Log Analytics Forwarder enables customers to have their OMS managed devices (Windows and Linux) to send data to a central server which has access to the internet. OMS Log Analytics Forwarder is a HTTP forward proxy that support HTTP tunneling via HTTP CONNECT command. The Forwarder can handle up to 1000 OMS concurrent connected devices if run on a 4 core CPU, 8GB Windows Server with a 1Gbps network connection. In order to use the OMS Log Analytics Forwarder, you need to install the OMS agent on the Forwarder Server.

 

Here you can download OMS Log Analytics Forwarder with the installation Guide

Free E-book Inside the Microsoft Operations Management Suite #MSOMS #SCOM #Azure

Free e-book written by Microsoft MVPs Tao Yang, Stanislav Zhelyazkov and Pete Zerger, along with Anders Bengtsson, Principal PFE for Microsoft, some of the most active members of the OMS community.

Description: This preview release of “Inside the Microsoft Operations Management Suite” is an end-to-end deep dive into the full range of Microsoft OMS features and functionality, complete with downloadable sample scripts. This early edition is being shared with the community while final edits are being completed.

The chapter list in this edition is shown below:

• Chapter 1: Introduction and Onboarding
• Chapter 2: Searching and Presenting OMS Data
• Chapter 3: Alert Management
• Chapter 4: Configuration Assessment and Change Tracking
• Chapter 5: Working with Performance Data
• Chapter 6: Process Automation and Desired State Configuration
• Chapter 7: Backup and Disaster Recovery
• Chapter 8: Security Configuration and Event Analysis
• Chapter 9: Analyzing Network Data
• Chapter 10: Accessing OMS Data Programmatically
• Chapter 11: Custom MP Authoring
• Chapter 12: Cross Platform Management and Automation

You can download the Free E-book Inside the Microsoft Operations Management Suite here

Wish you all Merry Christmas & Happy New Innovative Year 2016 !

Wow a lot has happened in 2015, I don’t even know where to begin with a recap of 2015 in a Mobile and Cloud first world ! What I have learned that’s it’s all about
applications on your Mobile Phone, Tablet, or any Device to Work, Learn in any environment you want. Sharing Microsoft technology with the Community and in Education via Social media is what I love to do on a daily bases. I hope you enjoyed the information in 2015 with Microsoft Products like :

• Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
• Azure Backup Server
• Azure Security Centre
• Microsoft Operations Management Suite
• Windows Server 2016 TP4
• Windows Containers
• Nano Server
• System Center 2016 TP4
• Bringing Azure to your Datacenter with Microsoft Azure Stack
• Microsoft Azure Dreamspark Subscription for Students
• Microsoft Loves Linux and GitHub and OpenSource
• and much more !

I wish you all a Healthy Life and a lot of Success in 2016 !

Microsoft is transforming Datacenters with New Technology and making Hybrid Cloud possible for your Applications.
What I personally like is the Microsoft Hololens this is something different, but very Cool to be in a Virtual Reality World with
awesome possibilities in 2016 and in the Future 🙂

Thank you Community, Followers, Microsoft Product Teams, MVP Award Program, MVP’s, Developers, ITpro’s, Students, for Sharing !

Best Regards, James van den Berg.