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On April 22 the annual Azure Boot Camp event took place worldwide. I was happy to be a part of this important event in 2017. I decided to talk about one of my favorite Azure technologies: Azure OMS Log Analytics. I held my presentation in Lingen in a very pleasant atmosphere at it.emsland. At this point: Thanks to @sql_williamd for the organization 🙂

My topic was “Azure OMS Log Analytics – Big-data-as-a-Service” and the presentation focused on Log Analytics.

Today Microsoft released my article „Build your own IoT device with ESP8266 system-on-a-chip, Azure Event Hub, Stream Analytics and Azure Storage“ on MSDN . I wrote this step-to-step guide in the context of the MVP Award Program.

If you want to know more about building smart IoT devices with ESP8266 I invite you to read my post on:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2017/03/28/build-your-own-iot-device/

On February 1st I had the chance to give a webinar focused on Azure OMS Log Analytics. Log Analytics is Microsoft’s big-data solution in Azure.

This is the introduction:

OMS log Analytics is „the“ big-data solution by Microsoft in the Azure cloud. The OMS agent uses log Analytics as the storage for the metrics and data of the monitored infrastructures and solutions. The analytics engine enables administrators to evaluate the collected data with predefined and customized dashboards.

Between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, I had a couple of days I had some time for hacking. So, I wrote a small windows tool which can display the Azure spending for my subscriptions and notifies me if one amount has changed.

The result is my tool “Azure Spendings”. You can enter up to three accounts. For these accounts Azure Spendings enumerates all tenants and assigned subscriptions. The costs (the same as on portal.azure.com) are displayed.

Azure OMS offers with Log Analytics a big data analysis cloud service. It comes with an agent to collect different data on Windows and Linux systems. It can also be combined with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The collected data can be visualized by adding solutions from a gallery, searching the log with its own syntax and building custom views. Solutions from the gallery can be: AD Replication Status, Change Tracking and many more.

Wir freuen uns sehr über die neu erlangte Microsoft Silver Cloud Platform Kompetenz.
Langjähriges Engagement im Bereich Cloud-Lösungen und die Fokussierung auf die Bereitstellung
von Infrastrukturen und SaaS-Lösungen für Microsoft Azure sind entscheidende Voraussetzungen für das Erlangen der Silver Cloud Platform Kompetenz.

Zudem gilt es als ausgezeichneter Microsoft Partner bestimmte Umsatzkriterien zu erfüllen und entsprechende Referenzen im Cloud-Sektor vorzuweisen.

I use Microsoft Azure Log Analytics as a big data service. For example, I’m developing an agent for Citrix Worker to collect a mass of performance data for each worker in a farm. Performance data are: Different bandwidth consumption per user, running processes with memory and cpu usages, session data, logon data, etc. The agent uploads these data to Log Analytics and a custom dashboard shows different statistics and allows a capacity management of Citrix farms.

Some months ago I wrote a blog and a PowerShell module to operate OneDrive (the private one): https://www.sepago.com/blog/2016/02/21/Use-PowerShell-Module-OneDrive-from-PowerShellGallery-command-line. Accessing OneDrive for Business is well documented at https://dev.onedrive.com/, but it is more difficult to authenticate to it than to OneDrive.

These are the steps for the authentication:

Register your PowerShell app in your Azure AD

To allow your PowerShell script to authenticate users you have to register it in Azure Active Directory.

For einigen Monaten habe ich ein PowerShell Modul und einen Blog über den Zugriff auf OneDrive mit PowerShell geschrieben – auf den privaten OneDrive Account: https://www.sepago.com/blog/2016/02/21/Use-PowerShell-Module-OneDrive-from-PowerShellGallery-command-line. Der Zugriff auf OneDrive for Business ist in der Authentifizierung komplexer und erfordert die Einbindung eigener Skripte in das Azure Active Directory. Die Zugrunde legenden API ist hier beschrieben: https://dev.onedrive.com.

Hier meine Schritt-für-Schritt Anleitung für die Authentifizierung für den Zugriff auf OneDrive4Business.

Registrieren der Anwendung / des Skripts im Azure AD

Damit das spätere PowerShell Skript Benutzer authentifizieren kann,

In einer cloudbasierten Welt verhält sich einiges anders als in der klassischen.

Zum Beispiel laufen Server im Rechenzentrum kontinuierlich – es macht von den Kosten nahezu keinen Unterschied, ob sie durchlaufen oder nur dann in Betrieb sind, wenn sie gebraucht werden.

Anders ist es in Azure: VMs werden minutengenau abgerechnet. Also macht es hier einen deutlichen Unterschied, ob eine VM 24h läuft oder nur in den 10h, in denen sie benötigt wird.