Azure Automation Hybrid Worker behind a Firewall / Proxy

Posted on By Burkard Josh
Automation, Microsoft Azure

One nice feature of Azure Automation is the Hybrid Worker. With the Hybrid Worker you can execute Runbooks inside your onPremise infrastructure. according to the official documentation or at John Hennen’s post, you have to open your FireWall for outbound traffic to *.cloudapp.net for this ports 443,9354,30000-30199. When i told this requirement to our security-team, they weren’t very … Read More “Azure Automation Hybrid Worker behind a Firewall / Proxy” »

daily Backup Report for SC DPM

Posted on By Burkard Josh
SCDPM, System Center

i like System Center Dataprotection Manager, especially for the backup possibilites of remote Windows servers and the Online backup to Azure. But in my past, i lost the overview about succeded and failed backup jobs. The included reporting doesn’t helped me enough, and the alert notification was like spam. I needed a daily report with one … Read More “daily Backup Report for SC DPM” »

document your SCOM 2012 environment

Posted on By Burkard Josh
SCOM

This is quite huge for me, because I’ve been working on this script for the last two months and finally decided, to release the script to public, although I know that it’s still far from complete. Document your Operations Manager 2012 environment You should know your environment and what happens in it and you should be … Read More “document your SCOM 2012 environment” »

demoted Domain Controller still present in SCOM

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Active Directory, SCOM

If you demote a Domain Controller, SCOM will generate a lot of alerts. By design, there is no automatically undiscovery for the Rules and Monitores for the Active Directory Roles. Solution 1 This solution will remove all disabled Class instances from an existing object. it will not change any other properties of the object. Open … Read More “demoted Domain Controller still present in SCOM” »

extend the Active Directory Users class for SCSM

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SCSM

Today I needed some additional fields for the Active Directory User class for an SCSM Service Offering. For example, I need the PrimarySmtpAddress, which exists in the AD as mail, but not in the SCSM class. in this post, I will describe, how I did it: We will need: System Center Service Manager 2012 SP1 … Read More “extend the Active Directory Users class for SCSM” »

delete orphaned computers from SCOM

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SCOM

after renaming a Active Directory computer, the computer was automatically detected in SCOM with the correct new name. but after short time, I detected, that the originally agent was already there, but not reachable. so I deleted the old computer under Device Management – Agent Managed. normally after maximum 3 days, the agent isn’t visible … Read More “delete orphaned computers from SCOM” »

Create SCOM Dashboard for SharePoint in Visio

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SCOM

This week I created a DashBoard for SCOM in Visio to present it on a SharePoint site. Normally you could use the Visio 2010 Addin for SystemCenter – Operations Manager. But this addin has some special prerequisites for the presentation on the SharePoint site, like installing SCOM components and special configurations on the SharePoint Farm. … Read More “Create SCOM Dashboard for SharePoint in Visio” »

website rebranding

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General

Hello my website was over years reachable under josh-burkard.ch, which was a long url. I was on search for a new and shorter domain name for this website. now I have found one, which is shorter and which describes what i’m doing and writing about: Information Technology (IT). So, my new web address is burkard.IT … Read More “website rebranding” »

SCOM 2012 agent communication issue

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SCOM

This days, I had a very special problem with some new SCOM agents. I installed some new servers and installed the SCOM 2012 agent on it. But after some time, they appeared in the Agent Managed view, still as not monitored. first I looked up the event logs on the new servers and found this … Read More “SCOM 2012 agent communication issue” »

Create site-to-site VPN with FortiGate to Microsoft Azure

Posted on By Burkard Josh No Comments on Create site-to-site VPN with FortiGate to Microsoft Azure
Network

I know, it is an unsupported configuration to create a site-to-site VPN to Microsoft Azure with a FortiGate firewall. But a FortiGate device is what i have and only to run some test’s I don’t want to buy some of this expensive supported firewalls. I tried a lot of configurations, but nothings seams to run … Read More “Create site-to-site VPN with FortiGate to Microsoft Azure” »