You can deploy Azure RemoteApp in different scenarios. One of the scenarios is a Hybrid Deployment. In a Hybrid deployment the Azure RemoteApp instances are added to your Active Directory. The instances will be added to a dedicated OU in that Active Directory. When you start working with a Hybrid Deployment you will notice after some time that the orphaned AD Computer objects of Azure RemoteApp instances will not be deleted. This blogpost will focus on using cleaning up this computer accounts with using a new Azure RemoteApp cmdlet and Azure Automation.
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Operational Insights
Monitor your Azure RemoteApp environment with OpInsight – Part 4
StandardIn this final post of the series ‘Monitor your Azure RemoteApp environment with OpInsight’ I want to take a look in how we can monitor the User Profile Disks. The User Profile disk mechanism is used to save ‘personal’ data of users in Azure RemoteApp. Each user will get a 50 GB User Profile Disk (VHD) which will be mounted during the logon process of the user. In this blogpost I want to focus on how we can monitor the usage of the User Profile Disk by using the Near-Realtime-Performance monitoring functionality of OpInsight.
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Monitor your Azure RemoteApp environment with OpInsight – Part 3
StandardIn the first part I explained how you can connect your Azure RemoteApp instances to Azure Operational Insights. You can find this blogpost here. In the second blogpost I showed you which OpInsight solutions are very useful looking to the management which needs to be done on the Azure RemoteApp instances when using a custom image. You can find this second blogpost here. In this third post I want to focus on monitoring the usage of your Azure RemoteApp collection. With OpInsight it’s possible to collect values from performance counters of the agents. Through this functionality we can also the actual usage of the Azure RemoteApp collection. Based on your Data Plan you can save this information for a period of time and see if the usage is increased or decreased.
Monitor your Azure RemoteApp environment with OpInsight – Part 2
StandardIn the first part I explained how you can connect your Azure RemoteApp instances to Azure Operational Insights. You can find this blogpost here. In this blogpost I want to show you which Solutions are very usefull and which give you a great insight in your Azure RemoteApp environment in terms of management. In a hybrid scenario it’s your own responsibility to protect and maintain your environment. OpInsight can help you with giving you insights in what actions are needed for your Azure RemoteApp environment. The following solutions will be covered by this blogpost: Malware Assessment, System Update Assessment and Change Tracking.
Monitor your Azure RemoteApp environment with OpInsight – Part 1
StandardWith this blogpost I want to explain how you can connect your existing Azure RemoteApp environment with Azure Operational Insights. Operational Insights is part of the Operations Management Suite and is a cloud monitoring solution which can be used to collect information from different sources. In this blogpost I want to focus on adding a Hybrid Azure RemoteApp collection to OpInsight. In coming blogposts, I will explain what Azure Operational Insights can monitor from the Azure RemoteApp environments.
Azure Operational Insights: Security and Audit
StandardIn one of my last OpsMgr deployments I configured Audit Collection Services for auditing security related information. ACS is still working great but there were no improvements made to ACS since OpsMgr 2007 R2. So it’s lacking high-availability possibilities, for now I’ve created my own solution, but still it’s a pity that there is not much improvement. With OpInsights we get a new solution for security auditing. With the Intelligence Pack Security and Audit you can send your security information to OpInsights, when uploaded you can use the OpInsights functionality to query your information.
Azure Operational Insights: Intelligence Packs
StandardYesterday I finally published my first Operational Insights blogpost. This blogpost described a very basic approach in creating an OpInsights account and installing the Microsoft Monitoring Agent on your servers. I ended this blogpost with an active account and 5 connected servers. The next step is to activate intelligence packs. But let we first look into intelligence packs. Intelligence Packs contain a collection of logic, visualization and data acquisition rules. These packs are used inside OpInsights to add extra functionality to OpInsights. You can compare them to Management Packs which we know from Operations Manager. We have the following Intelligence Packs available in OpInsights:
Azure Operational Insights: What, Where and How?
StandardAs a big fan of System Center Operations Manager I’m also interested in the development of Microsoft Azure Operational Insights (OpInsights). But what is OpInsights? What functionality do we get with OpInsights? Well looking at the website we get the following functionality:
- Log Management – Collect, Combine, correlate and visualize all your machine data
- Capacity Planning – Manage your datacenter capacity
- Update Assessment – Ensure you server are up to date
- Change Tracking – Track server configuration changes
Based on the above list of functionality can we place OpInsights in a solution category like monitoring, server/client management, etc. At this moment it’s a combination different solutions but none of them are fully implemented. In my opinion OpInsights is a great data analyzing tool for analyzing your systems data, with OpInsights you can easily analyze and visualize that data. But at this moment it is not (yet) a monitoring solution which you can use to monitor your environment.