Cause Due to an Azure service outage affecting Azure Automation; automation jobs were not running on a Hybrid Worker and going to a failed state or hanging. The issue was raised with Microsoft, who advised us to remove a certificate from the Microsoft Monitoring Agent store. However, this was before they were fully aware of […]
Within Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr), you can use Discovery Methods to get data about your devices. When a device is successfully discovered it creates a Data Discovery Records (DDRs) file. The DDR then stores all the information about the Device in your ConfigMgr database. DDRs can be useful for adding extra data which you wish to […]
There are some excellent Excel based ConfigMgr sizing tools out there. I recently had a design request for estimating SQL sizing via PowerShell. The function I created Returns disk capacity and file estimates for: • SQL DB’s • SQL Log’s • SQL Temp The Get-CMDBSizingEstimate function is pretty simple to use. You can pass the […]
Issue: Ran into an issue when initially setting up a new Automation account using an ARM template. We noticed that the module versions in the automation account were out of date, at the time we decided to ignore it thinking it was a anomaly. Fast forward a couple days and when trying to use an […]
I’ve recently been working on a new starters creation process. The process relied heavily on querying a hosted HR system on Salesforce. To achieve this a Salesforce authentication token was required to invoke rest methods via PowerShell. Using PowerShell I was able to create the below function to achieve this :). PowerShell Function Calling The PowerShell Function […]
You may have found yourself in a situation where you need to set up a System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) Software Update Management Strategy. For example, you are tasked to set up a phased approach to deploying Windows updates to your Windows 10 devices. When you first start looking at this, it can seem like […]
When using Runbooks in Azure Automation, we can use a Hybrid Worker Group to access local resources within that groups data center. The Hybrid Worker Groups can be targeted when starting a Azure Automation Runbook . For more on Runbooks see Starting a runbook in Azure Automation. With an Azure Automation webhook, we can start […]
