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March 2015 | Raf Delgado - #sysctr.info
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Raf Delgado - Geeking on everything System Center, PowerShell, Automation, Cloud and more. I was looking over a blog post of mine from back in 2012 about removing special characters. From strings and thought I'd amend it a bit. The updated script is published on the Technet gallery here. I was talking to my colleague Rob. This management pack provides discovery and monitoring for the Cireson CacheBuilder and World Wide Publishing Service on a server with the Cireson Portal installed. The SQL Analysis Ser...
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May 2015 | Raf Delgado - #sysctr.info
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Raf Delgado - Geeking on everything System Center, PowerShell, Automation, Cloud and more. With System Center Service Manager (SCSM), you can produce custom reports via SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) server through data warehouse cubes. The collected data is made available via the cubes for use in Excel pivot tables. The standard reports are also available through the console. So what is Power Bi? Basically, Power Bi. So why is it so good for Service Manager? Power Bi is smart. I mean,. Imagine bei...
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Onboarding On-Premise Virtual Machine for Azure Automation DSC | Raf Delgado - #sysctr.info
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Raf Delgado - Geeking on everything System Center, PowerShell, Automation, Cloud and more. Onboarding On-Premise Virtual Machine for Azure Automation DSC. Posted by Raf Delgado. Friday, October 09, 2015. It's community Friday here at PowerONPlatforms so decided to have a play with Azure Automation on the Microsoft Azure Portal. One of the cool features of Azure Automation is the ability to have an on-premise virtual machine as a DSC node. Adding the On-Prem VMs. 2 Connect to the Azure Resource Manager.
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Part 1 - PowerBI - Service Manager Library Cube Reporting | Raf Delgado - #sysctr.info
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Raf Delgado - Geeking on everything System Center, PowerShell, Automation, Cloud and more. Part 1 - PowerBI - Service Manager Library Cube Reporting. Posted by Raf Delgado. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. With System Center Service Manager (SCSM), you can produce custom reports via SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) server through data warehouse cubes. The collected data is made available via the cubes for use in Excel pivot tables. The standard reports are also available through the console. Basically, Power Bi.
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June 2015 | Raf Delgado - #sysctr.info
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Raf Delgado - Geeking on everything System Center, PowerShell, Automation, Cloud and more. It was an interesting night upgrading the Cireson service portal from 3.6 to 3.7 with Rob. The install is pretty straight forward but there are a couple of minor gotchas when upgrading via the Cireson Setup. Using SSL settings and hostname bindings. Grid View Return Items. By default the grid view return item is set to 500, this can be amended in the database. When you upgrade, this will also be reverted. Nnot proc...
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PowerShell: Converting first character of a string to uppercase | Raf Delgado - #sysctr.info
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Raf Delgado - Geeking on everything System Center, PowerShell, Automation, Cloud and more. PowerShell: Converting first character of a string to uppercase. Posted by Raf Delgado. Wednesday, May 02, 2012. The below converts the first character of $givenname and $sn variables to uppercase. This is useful if you are receiving information from an external form and need to convert them to a useable format. Sunday, April 14, 2013 9:38:00 pm. Friday, January 10, 2014 4:20:00 pm. An IT professional with over 10 ...
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Azure AD Connect Force Password Sync via Command Line | Raf Delgado - #sysctr.info
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Raf Delgado - Geeking on everything System Center, PowerShell, Automation, Cloud and more. Azure AD Connect Force Password Sync via Command Line. Posted by Raf Delgado. Thursday, September 10, 2015. One issue with Azure AD Sync or DirSync was that the password sync can somethings stop working even if everything in the console is looking OK. On previous versions of DIR Sync and Azure AD sync, there are PowerShell commands available to force a full password sync ( See TechNet FAQ. An IT professional with o...
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Part 2 - Power Bi - Service Manager Library Cube Reporting - SCCM Configuration Items Dashboard | Raf Delgado - #sysctr.info
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Raf Delgado - Geeking on everything System Center, PowerShell, Automation, Cloud and more. Part 2 - Power Bi - Service Manager Library Cube Reporting - SCCM Configuration Items Dashboard. Posted by Raf Delgado. Sunday, July 26, 2015. OK - so it's been a while since Part 1 of my post was released and if you've read it, you'll probably already know how awesome Power BI is! If you haven't had a chance or just not seen it, you can view part 1 here. So let's have a play. Connecting to the SCSM Analysis Cubes.
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Power BI - SCCM Dashboard Reporting | Raf Delgado - #sysctr.info
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Raf Delgado - Geeking on everything System Center, PowerShell, Automation, Cloud and more. Power BI - SCCM Dashboard Reporting. Posted by Raf Delgado. Friday, September 11, 2015. Version 1.4 is now out, please refer to below link to view the latest version. PowerON Power BI - ConfigMgr Dashboard. This view contains a basic overview of client information such as, EndPoint Compliance, Client Activity and health. Workstation / Server Breakdown. Now this is the cool part. The site admin view queries the ...