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Dan

Daniel is an accomplished Hybrid Cloud Architect specializing in Azure hybrid solutions, cloud modernization, and software-defined platforms. With extensive expertise in HPE and Dell solutions, he focuses on cutting-edge technologies, including GPU-as-a-Service platforms and liquid immersion cooling. A Microsoft MVP with over seven years of recognition, Daniel is passionate about bridging on-premises and cloud environments to deliver innovative, scalable, and efficient IT solutions. His career is defined by a commitment to community engagement through blogging, speaking at tech conferences, and leading user groups, making him a recognized thought leader in hybrid cloud strategy.

The author has 90 posts

Azure Pack Hyper-V SCOM SCVMM

WAP Usage does not work. Last ID never changes. SQL Named instances.

Daniel Apps

This is a fast publish!   We were working with WAP and had an issue on one of our deployments not getting usage information. Never had this issue in previous deployments but identified that our SCOM DW SQL is on a Named […]

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MDT 2013 Windows 8.1

MDT 2013 – Windows region settings for Australia

Daniel Apps

So this fast-publish post is more of a reference page for the regional settings for Australia based Windows deployments   Locale, keyboard and language settings for Australia. This is a basic oobe.xml file found under c:\windows\system32\oobe\info\default\1033   <FirstExperience>    <oobe>       <defaults>   […]

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SCOM

SCOM 2012 R2 – Custom Monitor and Alert (WMI Leak)

Daniel Apps

Recently had a client request to monitor for WMI leaks and receive alerts when the WMI process starts to consume resources. Obviously there are other methods for monitoring and/or reporting on this, but in environments without access to these tools or the […]

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SCOM

SCOM 2012 R2 – WMI Leak Collection Rule

Daniel Apps

Create a rule to view the memory usage of WMI process in Windows 2008/2008 R2 (and 2012/2012 R2) agent managed computers.   As described here by Kevin Holman, there is a known WMI (KB981314) leak in 2008 R2 and Win 7 operating […]

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Powershell Quick Tips SCOM

SCOM 2012 R2 – Enable Agent Proxy

Daniel Apps

Just a quick note on how to enable agent proxy via PowerShell Assumptions in this scenario: SCOM 2012 R2 – UR3 Using Operations Manager Shell You want all Agents with proxy enabled Some basics: Get-SCOMAgent Let’s limit our scope.. Get-SCOMAgent | where {$_.ProxyingEnabled […]

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MDT 2013 Quick Tips Windows 8.1

MDT 2013 – Windows 8.1 & disable Hibernation

Daniel Apps

Disabling hibernation is simple enough (“powercfg.exe -h off”) but how would we do this in MDT. As with all things MDT, there is often more multiple ways to achieve the same goal. The two methods I would use are by the modifying the […]

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MDT 2013 Windows 8.1

MDT 2013 – Win 8.1 Reference Image automation

Daniel Apps

Using MDT 2013 I wanted a sequence that automatically installs, sysprep’s and captures my reference image. For ease of management, I choose to have a dedicated MDT Deployment Share for my reference build process and use Powershell wherever possible. A more detailed process using the […]

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MDT 2013 Powershell Quick Tips Windows 8.1

Powershell script to set speaker volume

Daniel Apps

On a recent MDT project the client requested to finish all builds with volume set at 30%.   Being committed to doing everything in Powershell, I jumped on the book of knowledge looking for some inspiration. As luck would have it, I […]

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MDT 2013 SCCM Windows 8.1

MDT 2013 – USB Boot and drive letter management

Daniel Apps

A recent MDT project a client was using USB media to do the builds. This is easy enough to accomplish but something they couldn’t handle was during the build, the USB drive gets assigned D and devices with optical drives ended up […]

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SCCM

SCCM 2012 R2 – Move reporting services db to another volume on same server

Daniel Apps

Simple task today. I want to relocate my SQL Reporting Services DB to another drive/volume on the same server. Overview steps: Stop the SCCM Site Stop Report Services Detach and move files Attach files in new location Start Report Services Start SCCM […]

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