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How to enable Azure Backup to Canada

Posted by Ravi Yadav [MVP] on January 20th, 2017

Earlier in 2016, Microsoft increased the number of Canadian Data Centers to two: Canada East and Canada Central. With most of my customers being within Canada, naturally they want their Azure Backup data stored within the Canada Data Centers/Regions — makes sense for many (legal) reasons. Only problem is, Azure backup is still very limited to specific […]

Issues with Azure Active Directory and Login-AzureRmAccount

Azure, Cloud, Powershell, Virtualization

Posted by Ravi Yadav [MVP] on January 17th, 2017

If you’re like me, you have probably banged your head against the wall a few times with the Login-AzureRmAccount cmdlet… I reached out to the Azure Development team and not only is this a known issue, but there is currently no solution at the time…. Hmm. Here is a bit of the background story, followed […]

Weather Data in OMS Log analytics

Azure, Blog, DevOps, Powershell

Posted by ehrnst on October 28th, 2016

If you’re one of the few who has seen my last blog posts about my SCOM weather management pack, you have probably figured that I am a bit too much in to the weather. Along side the weather management pack I looked in to getting the same type of data in to Microsoft Operations Management […]

What’s new with Hyper-V 2016? (PowerShell Direct)

Hyper-V, Powershell, Virtualization

Posted by Ravi Yadav [MVP] on August 11th, 2016

In Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V 2016, Microsoft has created PowerShell Direct. PowerShell Direct allows us Hyper-V administrators to …….{For the complete post, please visit, SCOMandOtherGeekyStuff.com}

Hyper-V Network Virtual Switches 101

Hyper-V, Powershell, SCVMM

Posted by Ravi Yadav [MVP] on May 19th, 2016

So you’ve spun up a Windows 2012R2 machine with Hyper-V installed and ready to go. However, now you’re stuck and not sure which type of Network Virtual Switch (vSwitch) applies to your environment(s)… In Windows 2012R2, Hyper-V’s network virtual switch runs at Layer 2 (Data Link layer). If you are unfamiliar with this, or either […]

SCOM 2012R2 – Set-SCOMLicense : Requested registry access is not allowed Error

Operations Manager, Powershell

Posted by Ravi Yadav [MVP] on April 18th, 2016

So you are trying to apply the SCOM 2012R2 Product Licence with the Operations Manager Shell and getting the following error, “Set-SCOMLicense : Requested registry access is not allowed.” Try launching PowerShell (as Administrator), for the complete post, please visit HERE.

Creating a Converged Network Fabric with SCVMM 2012R2

Hyper-V, Powershell, SCVMM

Posted by Ravi Yadav [MVP] on March 16th, 2016

This blog post should have been posted quite some time ago, however, after numerous revisions and the details in the post, you’ll understand why. In this post I will demonstrate creating a converged network fabric in SCVMM 2012R2. This converged network will consist of logical network adapters, QoS, NIC (vNIC) teaming, and network adapters. Step […]

Creating a sealed management pack with #SCSM outriggers using PowerShell

Blog, Powershell, Service Manager

Posted by Marat Kuanyshev on March 8th, 2016

One of our popular free tool is SCUtils DWMPcreator that lets you generate sealed management packs for the Service Manager 2012 Data Warehouse within seconds. It can be used for classes and relationships and supports adding custom outriggers. However, you cannot create a management pack just for outriggers using DWMPcreator. Usually, an outrigger management pack […]

SCVMM 2012R2 – Error 25100 – Unable to Delete Logical Network

Powershell, SCVMM

Posted by Ravi Yadav [MVP] on February 26th, 2016

SCVMM 2012R2 – Error 25100 – VMM is Unable to delete the logical network This error will occur when you are trying to delete a logical network which still has resources bound to it. After creating some virtual machines that were bound to this logical network, I realized there was no communication between the VMs. This was a result of not […]

SCOM Advanced Authoring : Powershell Discovery from CSV file – Explained using “TCP Port Monitoring” Scenario

By Example, MP Development, Operations Manager, Powershell

Posted by Gowdhaman on February 25th, 2016

SCOM is exceptional tool which allows IT Administrators to customize the monitoring scenario to any extent. To have a customized monitoring solution, one must understand the authoring capabilities in SCOM, so that the solution can be easily implemented, highly optimized and has less overhead on SCOM Management servers and agents. In this post we will […]

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