Updated: OMSSearch PowerShell Module

You may ask what an MVP does on a rainy day? Probably a good answer will be: Trying to make your life easier?.

AS Microsoft published more information on the Operations Management Suite API I’ve decided to take a look update the OMSSearch PowerShell module. I’ve added –Start, –End and –Top parameters to Execute-OMSSearchQuery so you can make more granular searches. Also Stefan Stranger helped by adding Get-OMSWorkspace cmdlet. You will find all information and new version on Github.

Programmatically Search Operations Management Suite

At Ignite Jo Chan showed us how we can now execute Search queries trough Operations Management Suite API which is basically Azure Resource Manager API. He demonstrated that with a tool called ARMClient. That tool seems nice but I wanted to get results with PowerShell as it is more familiar to me. Continue reading “Programmatically Search Operations Management Suite”

Auditing PowerShell with Operations Management Suite

It has been a long time since I haven’t blogged about my new love Operations Management Suite Smile. This blog post will show you how easily you can audit all PowerShell commands that executed in your environment with Log Analytics in Operations Management Suite. Continue reading “Auditing PowerShell with Operations Management Suite”

Azure Automation – Hybrid Worker Setup

It is May 4th which marks the start of Microsoft Ignite 2015 and of course new Azure features start to appear. So first Azure Automation is now available in the preview portal: Continue reading “Azure Automation – Hybrid Worker Setup”

Azure Automation is Faster Than Me

The original title of this post was suppose to be “Strategy on Running Runbooks in Azure Automation” and wanted to write it for more than a month. Why the title changed during this period? Simple – there was some limitation on running runbooks in Azure Automation and that limitation was significantly  increased which pushed me to change the title. Let me explain in detail what was the limitation, what has happened and what is that strategy I had that you might still need and it is always good to implement. Continue reading “Azure Automation is Faster Than Me”