How can I monitor Entra Connect Health Sync?
Hello, How can I monitor Entra Connect Health Sync events and get alerts on failures? I have set up to be alearted to events in the Entra portal but I only get a summary email, and not instant notifications. I wish to informed if there is a loss of sync between OP and Entra, or with SSPR? Is this possible other than what MS give us in the Portal. ThanksGet up to speed with Azure HDInsight: The comprehensive guide
Azure HDInsight is an easy, cost-effective, enterprise-grade service for open source analytics. With HDInsight, you get managed clusters for various Apache big data technologies, such as Spark, MapReduce, Kafka, Hive, HBase, Storm and ML Services backed by a 99.9% SLA. In addition, you can take advantage of HDInsight’s rich ISV application ecosystem to tailor the solution for your specific scenario. HDInsight covers a wide variety of big data technologies, and we have received many requests for a detailed guide. Whether you want to just get started with HDInsight, or become a Big Data expert, this post has you covered with all the latest resources. Read about it in the Azure blog.How to Monitor Azure Activity using Azure Log Analytics
I have been asked many times how can I find out who created /deleted /modified this Azure resource. Usually I say if you are lucky, it might be show you in the Activity Log. You are never lucky it seems. Here comes Log Analytics to the rescue. In this blog post I am going to show you how to link your Azure Activity Log to Log Analytics. Lets link up In the Azure portal navigate to the Log Analytics Workspace you want the Azure Activity Logs to go to. When you are in there, click on Azure Activity Log on the left. You may have to scroll down. It’s under the heading Workspace data Sources. you can read more @ https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/11/how-to-monitor-azure-activity-using-azure-log-analytics/Microsoft Azure Hub-Spoke model by Enterprise Design 2 of 4 Lift and Shift
Microsoft Azure Hub-Spoke model This blogpost about Microsoft Azure Hub-Spoke model by Enterprise Design 2 of 4 “Lift and Shift” is part of a Datacenter transition to Microsoft Azure Intelligent Cloud. It’s talking about Azure Architecture, Security, Assessment, Azure Policy, and implementation of the design. Here you find the first blogposts : Microsoft Azure Hub-Spoke model by Enterprise Design 1 of 4 Microsoft Azure Policy and BluePrints Overview (Extra Blogpost) It’s important for your business to have your Azure Architectural design with Security in place before you start your “Lift and Shift” actions, think about Identity Management and Provisioning, RBAC for your Administrators and Super Users with Two-Factor Authentication. Security with Network Security Groups and Firewalls Read the Complete blogpost here about "Lift and Shift" to the Cloud with Azure Site Recovery migration ServicesMicrosoft Azure Hub-Spoke model by Enterprise Design 1 of 4
Microsoft Virtual Datacenter Transition to Azure (Hybrid Cloud) Microsoft Azure Hub-Spoke Architecture This Enterprise reference architecture shows how to implement a hub-spoke topology in Azure. The hub is a virtual network (VNet) in Azure that acts as a central point of connectivity to your on-premises network. The spokes are VNets that peer with the hub, and can be used to isolate workloads. Traffic flows between the on-premises datacenter and the hub through an ExpressRoute or VPN gateway connection. Read the complete Blogpost Journey to the Azure Cloud hereKeeping shelves stocked and consumers happy (and shopping!)
An advanced analytics solution must be able to handle millions of SKUs and segment data into detailed comparisons. The outcome is the ability to maximize sales at every store by tuning product assortments using advanced analytics and visualization tools to enable insights. Doing this successfully could result in an estimated 5-10 percent sales increase. Azure offers several out-of-the box services that can be used to build a scalable analytics solution that is cost effective and comprehensive. And if developing a solution is not a viable option, Microsoft works with partners such as Neal Analytics who have proven capabilities solving this business challenge at scale Read about it in the Azure blog.HPE OneView for Microsoft Azure Log Analytics pretty handy if you run HPE Azure Stack
Today, I got some great news, which I missed in the last couple of weeks. HPE announced that their HPE OneView for Microsoft Azure Log Analytics 1.0 Preview, or short OV4ALA, is now available. OV4ALA is a integration that provides a bridge between HPE hardware infrastructure and Azure Log Analytics. This basically allows you to extend your HPE hardware monitoring to the Microsoft Cloud. This also pretty handy if you have Azure Stack from HPE: https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/08/hpe-oneview-microsoft-azure-log-analytics/Azure #HDInsight Interactive Query: simplifying big data analytics architecture
Fast Interactive BI, data security and end user adoption are three critical challenges for successful big data analytics implementations. Without right architecture and tools, many big data and analytics projects fail to catch on with common BI users and enterprise security architects. In this blog we will discuss architectural approaches that will help you architect big data solution for fast interactive queries, simplified security model and improved user adoption with BI users. Read about it in the Azure blog.Azure #HDInsight Apache Phoenix now supports Zeppelin
The HDInsight team is excited to announce Apache Zeppelin Support for Apache Phoenix. Apache Phoenix is an open source, massively parallel relational database layer built on HBase. Phoenix allows you to use SQL like queries over HBase. Phoenix uses JDBC drivers underneath to enable users to create, delete, alter SQL tables, indexes, views and sequences, upset rows individually and in bulk. Phoenix uses NOSQL native compilation rather than using MapReduce to compile queries, enabling the creation of low-latency applications on top of HBase. Apache Phoenix enables OLTP and operational analytics in Hadoop for low latency applications by combining the best of both worlds. In Azure HDInsight Apache Phoenix is delivered as a 1st class Open Source framework. Read about it in the Azure blog.How to enhance HDInsight security with service endpoints
HDInsight enterprise customers work with some of the most sensitive data in the world. They want to be able to lock down access to this data at the networking layer as well. However, while service endpoints have been available in Azure data sources, HDInsight customers couldn’t leverage this additional layer of security for their big data pipelines due to the lack of interoperability between HDInsight and other data stores. As we have recently announced, HDInsight is now excited to support service endpoints for Azure Blob Storage, Azure SQL databases and Azure Cosmos DB. We will explore how to enable service endpoints and point out important HDInsight configurations for Azure Blob Storage, Azure SQL DB, and Azure CosmosDB. Read more about it in the Azure blog.
