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XML Namespace Issue in Azure Diagnostics Event Log Entries
I recently had a customer migrating an application to Azure whose policy is to send well-formed XML with detailed error information to the event log whenever errors are detected in their applications....
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SCOM 2007 R2 Event Log Alerting and Monitoring for Azure Applications
Through rules, SCOM provides a powerful system for capturing specific events from the event log of Windows Azure applications and notifying various groups of critical events through SCOM alerts. Events...
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Notes on Monitoring Windows Event Logs and Trace Logs in SCOM 2007 R2
In my previous post, I showed you how to visualize Windows Azure Event logs in SCOM 2007 R2. I would like to extend this post to add on some of my additional learning of dealing with Event logs, and...
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Viewing the Operations Manager Event Log on Your SCOM 2007 R2 or SCOM 2012...
In corporate environments, sometimes a SCOM administrator is given access to the Operations Console only through installation on a client machine or through a Citrix session. So they can’t just launch...
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Creating Unit Monitors for Windows Azure Performance Counters in SCOM 2007 R2
Monitors are powerful management pack objects in SCOM. In the Operations Manager documentation, a monitor is described in the following manner: “monitors can be used to assess various conditions that...
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Setting Up an Alert for Hosted Service State Changes in SCOM 2007 R2
I’m posting this by request from a customer who desires to setup an alert when a hosted service changes its state. The process is fairly straightforward, provided you know where to look. In the...
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Walkthrough to Configure System Center Management Pack for Windows Azure...
The wait is finally over. This is a huge update to the Azure Management Pack over the one that was released a couple of years ago, which not only monitors Azure applications but storage and virtual...
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Moving a Windows Azure Virtual Machine from one Virtual Network to Another
Today I was trying to find an easy way to move a virtual machine from one Virtual Network to another, but wasn’t successful. So I played around until I figured it out, and thus the next time someone...
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Creating Load Balanced Virtual Machines in a Virtual Network
I have seen in a couple of places where it has been mistakenly implied that you can’t create load balanced virtual machines in a virtual network. Actually, you can. The trick is that load balancing is...
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Using the New Visual Studio 2010 Authoring Extensions to Create SCOM 2012...
Unless you enjoy creating SCOM 2012 management packs by hand, you will want a tool to ease the creation of rules and monitors that target Windows Azure PaaS applications. Well you’re in luck with the...
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Filtering Azure Applications in SCOM 2012 Performance Views
Okay, so you now have your shiny, new installation of SCOM 2012 up and running. You have migrated your old Windows Azure management pack using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions for Visual Studio...
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Accessing Azure SQL DB from an Azure VM Using the External IP Address
A customer asked me the other day how they can disallow arbitrary machines from within the Windows Azure environment to have access to their Azure SQL Database servers, while still allowing specific...
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Windows Azure PaaS ACLs Are Here!
Even though there wasn’t much fanfare about it in the release of the Windows Azure SDK 2.3, the PaaS Access Control List (ACL) feature was finally added after having this feature for Infrastructure as...
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Microsoft Azure Data Security (Data Cleansing and Leakage)
Disclaimer: The procedures explained in this document are now current as of September 2014, and are subject to change without notice. Of utmost concern to enterprise customers (indeed all customers)...
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