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Log Analytics for Application Usage Monitoring Part 1.2: Cost
Introduction: Following my initial articles describing what is collected, how it is displayed, this article will cover the cost of this solution. Before we start, please know that I am no Azure cost “expert.” I can point you in the right direction and provide examples, but you need to consult with Microsoft and your internal…
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Log Analytics for Windows Application Usage Monitoring Part 1.1: Technical Details and Limitations
Introduction: In my initial article of this series, I mentioned that there were a few asterisks, footnotes, limitations, and caveats to understand with this solution. Luckily, this is again much less of a concern than it was with the System Usage & Authentication Monitoring series as this collector isn’t targeting nearly the volume of event…
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Log Analytics for Windows Application Usage Monitoring Part 1.0: Overview
Introduction: For those of you familiar with my work on Log Analytics, you know that I have at several times throughout several articles touted the ability for PowerShell to pull Windows Events, including those from the Security log which the now old Log Analytics agent could not do. And, unfortunately, the new AMA has other faults which…
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Bug: March 2024 Surface Laptop Firmware Update Causing Incorrect System Time
Here’s a fresh bug hot off the presses. Getting right into it, here is what I have to share. If you also experience this issue, please comment! Update sections will be appended to the tail end of this article as news comes out. I’ll apologize in advance for any typos in this one – It’s…
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Azure Monitor Agent: The future is not here (yet).
W365 Resolution, August 2024: I am happy to announce that as of late August 2024, Azure Monitor does support Windows 365 Cloud PCs. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/enterprise/whats-new#week-of-august-26-2024-service-release-2408 For future reference, I don’t believe I was ever contacted to let me know that my feature request had an ETA or was completed. Either way, I am just happy…
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March 2024 Site News
Howdy folks! I know it’s been a while but there are finally some things in the pipe that I want to talk about. A Big Thank You to My Viewers! First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone as the site has continued to maintain 2-3+ thousand monthly views for the past…
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PR for Detecting Faulty Notepad++ Upgrades
Introduction: I might be a bit behind the wave here, but I wanted to provide something to the community that has helped in my world. As I am sure many folks are already aware, there were a host of vulnerabilities recently found and patched in Notepad++. Those include CVE-2023-40031, CVE-2023-40036, CVE-2023-40164, CVE-2023-40166 which you can…
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8/10/23 News: Updates and Future Plans
This is the first in what will likely be many “News:” articles of mine. These are pretty much exactly what they sound like, just simple newsletters regarding what I have been working on, some things that have received some updates and adjustments, and what you can expect coming up. Updates: Fast Startup: System Usage &…
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Log Analytics for Windows Endpoint System Usage & Authentication Monitoring Part 1.6: Deploying the Script
Introduction: With your data ingesting and workbooks deployed, we are now ready to start deploying the collector via Proactive Remediations in Intune. This will likely be the final article in this series, at least for now. In this section, we will cover… Requirements: This should be pretty obvious, but you need to have completed the setup…
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Log Analytics for Windows Endpoint System Usage & Authentication Monitoring Part 1.5: Importing the Workbook
Introduction: With your data now ingesting into Log Analytics, granted the collectors not yet deployed, we are ready to begin setting up our workbooks to further confirm data is coming in properly. Note: It would be a good idea to have at least a few devices manually ingest some data before starting this process. In this…
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