by Steve Bowman | Jun 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesSaved queries have been one of the overlooked features in the admins toolbox. You can save queries to search for disabled user or computer accounts, number of days since the last user logon, users with non-expiring Passwords, and many...
by Steve Bowman | May 28, 2015 | SCOM
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutesIn my current Operations Manager engagement, we came across an issue with Operations Manager failing to discover new SQL databases on a previously-monitored instance. The root cause was unexpected (and in fact, unrelated to Operations...
by Steve Bowman | May 20, 2015 | Orchestrator
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve recently been working with a few different organizations on server automation projects. If you have been following the Microsoft automation space for the past couple of years you have noticed that there are two different...
by Steve Bowman | May 14, 2015 | Office 365, PowerShell, Uncategorized
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesPlenty of organizations are moving to O365 these days. Extending your directory services outside of your on-premise environment can put Admins on edge. I wanted to take some time to share some Powershell that helps make administering...
by Steve Bowman | Apr 22, 2015 | Orchestrator
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the great many features of System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 is the ability to create reusable “Variables”. Now I use the term Variable loosely given what I am about to talk about is really static values that you as...
