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Protect your Azure subscription IDs when presenting

I came across a great browser extension a while ago called Azure Mask. I’ve been following the development of it closely because for a while it didn’t work with Edge. That issue is now fixed so lets have a look.

Azure mask does exactly what it says on the tin, it will mask your Azure subscription IDs and make them appear blurred out, this is a great tool for anyone presenting or screen sharing in Azure.

Looking at the below you can see exactly that

There’s even a hand toggle to easily turn the mask on and off

Azure Mask is available for Chrome (so it works on Edge) and Firefox and is available here from GitHub big kudos to developer Brian Clark

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Silect Dashboards for SCOM

Silect has released an awesome set of dashboards for SCOM and best of all they’re free. You can request your copy here.

All you need to get started is PowerBI Desktop available here, then load the pbix file and edit the data source to point at your SCOM database instances.

Then hit refresh and you’ll have 10 nice health dashboards with an overview of your SCOM environment.

I really like this solution, it’s elegant and easy to setup. Great job Silect.

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SCOM: Updated Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Version 7.1

The new version is available for download here

Product features
The Dell EMC Server Management Pack 7.1 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager enables the user to:
-Discover and classify the following Dell EMC devices:
1.Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers-using license-free monitoring, and license-based monitoring using iSM.
2.Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRAC)
3.Supported Dell Precision Racks
4.Supported Dell EMC devices through OMSA or iSM based on your requirements.

The Dell EMC OpenManage Integration 7.1 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager enables the user to:
-Discover and classify the following Dell EMC devices:
1.Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers-Using license-based monitoring using iDRAC WS-MAN
2.Dell EMC Chassis-PowerEdge FX2/ FX2s, PowerEdge VRTX, PowerEdge M1000e, PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis, and Dell OEM Ready Chassis
3.Dell EMC Network Switches-M-Series, Z-Series, N-Series, and S-Series switches
4.Supports OpenManage Enterprise-Modular
5.Supported Dell Precision Racks
6.Supported Dell EMC devices through iDRAC using WS-MAN
7.Dell EMC Chassis Modular Server Correlation feature

-View, analyze, and resolve alerts using Knowledge Base (KB) articles.
-Perform various tasks on the discovered Dell EMC devices.
-View reports for discovered Dell EMC devices.

Fixes & Enhancements

Fixes: N/A

Enhancements:
1.Dell EMC OMIMSSC version 7.1 is a ready to deploy virtual machine available as a .vhd file
2.Discovery of devices and overrides through Appliance.
3.Synchronize all Dell EMC devices discovered in the enrolled Operations Manager environment with OMIMSSC.
4.Supports Discovery, Health Monitoring and Alerts for Dell EMC Network Switches of S, M, N and Z Series.
5.Discover and Monitor OpenManage Enterprise – Modular.
6.Supports OpenManage Enterprise – Modular alerts.
7.Supports OpenManage Enterprise – Modular performance metrics.
8.Server and Chassis Performance monitoring graphs View.

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