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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows 365 Monitoring Part 2.2: Sample Data, Tables, DCRs, Initial Ingestion
Let’s get right into it. Following our last post, here is how you actually set this monitoring up. This part will cover the creation of the DCR’s, Tables, and initial data ingestion. Setup of the workbook as well as the true deployment of the collector scripts will come in part three. Again, I cannot possibly recommend…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics for Windows 365 Monitoring Part 2.1: Overview
Introduction: Following my Log Analytics Learning Series V2, this three-part series will provide you with the resources and information to guide you through the setup of Log Analytics for monitoring a Microsoft Windows 365 (Cloud PC) environment. A big shout out to some friends on the Windows 365 team at Microsoft for helping determine what…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics: Part 2.12 – Ongoing Cost Monitoring and Predictions
While I did do a section on cost mainly from an initial prediction standpoint, this section will cover how you can monitor cost going forward once things are setup. I can also guide you in cost prediction to scale the solution up. Unfortunately, this process is a little tricky and I almost considered not writing…
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Bug: Windows 11 KB5027231 + (some) AV is Breaking Google Chrome
Here’s one hot off the presses. Getting right into it, here is what I have to share. I will update this article as the issue and information progresses. What is happening? Today we started seeing a handful of reports that Google Chrome would not launch on devices. As the day went on, this number started…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics: Part 2.11 – Shipping Data to an Event Hub
Now that your data is in Log Analytics, and you have queries and workbooks helping you to confirm the data is good, this section will cover how you can then ship this custom data to an Event Hub! Here I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the actual…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics: Part 2.10 – Queries & Workbooks
In this section, we will take a look at some basic KQL queries and how those are then put into a workbook. While the Sample Collector is rather basic as again, it’s just to demo how this whole thing works, there are still some simple queries we can make which do provide real value. In…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics: Part 2.9 – Modifying the Collection Script to Ingest New Data
In the last part of this series, we took a look at how the collection script works. In this part, we will look at how you can modify it to collect a new piece of data. While I would prefer you to simply follow along, the final result script created in this guide will be SampleCollectionScriptV4.ps1 which…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics: Part 2.8 – How the Collection Script Works
This post will cover how the data collection script works with a focus on the sections you would want to change in order to modify it. An example of how to modify it, along with the necessary corresponding DCR and table changes, will come later as I am trying to keep these posts less monstrously…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics: Part 2.7 – Deploying Data Collection Scripts
The last several parts of this series have been rather large so, I am going to keep this one nice and short. This will cover only the deployment of the script via Proactive Remediations as well as some simple queries to watch as new devices check in. Discussion regarding how the script works and how…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics: Part 2.6 – Troubleshooting Upload Failures
This is something I didn’t write before that I really should have. This article will cover how to troubleshoot an upload failure. This is applicable to ANY log client script, not just the sample collection. Critical: If you (recently) altered/alter ANY of the Function App permissions either via the guide or by following the steps…
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