Microsoft has announced a while ago that the OMS Portal, used for Windows Analytics, was being deprecated in favour of Azure’s Log Analytics. In order to keep access to Windows Analytics intact for all your users, a “migration” must be done prior to January 15, 2019. A warning is currently displayed when you log on the to-be-deprecated OMS portal. In this post, we will detail how to migrate Windows Analytics from the OMS Portal to Azure’s Log Analytics. Azure Windows Analytics migration Log on the Azure Portal Browse to Log Analytics. This should be empty if you don’t have Global admin rights and had rights to the OMS portal You must use a Global admin account. Looking at the rights of the OMS workspace for Windows Analytics, users or groups should have either ReadOnly, Contributor or Owner role assigned. Those roles are OMS’ roles, not Azure roles. Rights need to be modified to one of the following Azure Roles. Microsoft recommends … Read More
How to Configure the SCCM Upgrade Readiness Connector
Upgrade Readiness (formerly Upgrade Analytics) enables you to assess and analyze device readiness with Windows 10. You can integrate Upgrade Readiness with SCCM to access client upgrade compatibility data in the SCCM admin console. You are able to target devices for upgrade or remediation from the device list. Support for integrating Upgrade Analytics (now Upgrade Readiness) was introduced in SCCM 1610. With the 1706 release, there’s an improved integration of SCCM and Azure Services. These improvements streamline how you configure the Azure services you use with Configuration Manager. We thought this was a good opportunity to describe how to configure SCCM with the Upgrade Readiness Connector. You must connect Upgrade Readiness to the top-tier site in your hierarchy. If you connect Upgrade Readiness to a standalone primary site and then add a central administration site to your environment, you must delete and recreate the OMS connection within the new hierarchy. … Read More
How to Configure the SCCM OMS Connector
The Operations Management Suite is a cloud-based IT management solution that helps IT organizations to manage and protect the on-premises and cloud infrastructure. IT organizations can use the Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) Connector to import data of collections from SCCM to Operations Management Suite. This makes data from the SCCM environment visible in the Operations Management Suite. For now, only collection membership information can be imported but I wouldn’t be surprised if more features are added in the near future. Microsoft Operation Management Suite (OMS) Connector was introduced as a pre-release feature in SCCM1606. With the 1706 release, there’s improved integration of SCCM and Azure Services. These improvements streamline how you configure the Azure services you use with Configuration Manager. We thought this was a good opportunity to describe how to configure SCCM with the OMS connector. Prerequisite for SCCM OMS Connector Before starting you need a couple of … Read More