MS Operations Management Suite Survival Guide
Introduction
What is a survival guide? It’s a page created as a pointer to information on the web. You can use the information below to learn the fundamentals of the Microsoft Operations Management Suite and share information with other community members. Resources are categorized based on the type of content (video, training, blog article, etc.) as well as the age of the content, with the most recent articles listed at the top of the list, generally speaking.
Please add useful articles and training resources you find are not already in the lists below.
NOTE: The "collection of links" blog articles have been intentionally left out as they simply point to subsets of the resources shared here. To keep the resources here lean and relevant, it will be helpful to simply put direct resource links here to prevent sending visitors into a "content loop" where they encounter the same links repeatedly.
Background
The current Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) is an evolution from Azure Operational Insights (originally announced under the System Center Advisor and released in limited public preview in May 2014 at the MS TechEd conference in Houston). The name was changed to Azure Operational Insights when the full public preview was announced in November 2014. The original System Center Advisor achieved generally availability in January 2012, but had been introduced some months earlier under the codename "Atlanta".
Product Documentation
Training Resources from Microsoft
Microsoft Virtual Academy
There is a 5-part course on the Microsoft Virtual Academy website:
Videos from the above course (on channel 9)
- Module 1: What is Operational Insights (12 min, 5 sec)
- Module 2: Deployment Options (20 min, 48 sec)
- Module 3: Using Operational Insights (34 min, 48 sec)
- Module 4: Security Analytics for the IT Security Admin (10 min, 41 sec)
- Module 5: Troubleshooting Operational Insights (19 min, 9 sec)
How-to Videos (Channel 9)
The following how-to videos on Channel 9 take viewers through the initial onboarding process.
Onboarding New Systems
- 3 ways to onboard to OpInsights (37 sec)
- Connect Servers Directly to OpsInsights (2 min, 7 sec)
- Add Servers through Operations Manager to OpsInsights (1 min, 30 sec)
Creating a Workspace
- Creating a Workspace for Azure Customers - OpInsights
- Creating a Workspace for Non-Azure Customers - OpInsights
Webinars
Webinars on OMS and Azure Operational Insights, sorted by source (MS or community).
Microsoft Webinar Links:
- The Microsoft Operations Management Suite:
- Log analytics and visualization:
- Introduction to Azure Operational Insights with SCOM
- Security Threat Analysis Using Microsoft Azure Operational Insights
- Log management and other intelligence packs:
Community Webinar Links
Blog Articles
The following lists of blog articles are group by Microsoft resources, followed by community resources. Newer resources should be placed at the top of the list.
Microsoft Links
- Using Wire Data in OMS Log Search
- Near Real-time Performance Data Collection in OMS
- Create your fields in OMS with Custom Fields
- Ignite Keynote recap: The Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS)
- Introducing the Microsoft Operations Management Suite
- ‘Feedback’�� your Product Team and Community connection in Azure Operational Insights
- New SQL Server Assessment Intelligence Pack in Operational Insights!
- Integrate Azure Operational Insights into System Center Operations Manager Dashboards
- Anatomy of an Event Collection Rule for Azure Operational Insights (Advanced targeting when using OpsMgr attach)
- Bring your Alerts to Operational Insight
- Your Own Dashboard in Azure Operational Insights!
- Wish you knew what configuration change caused an issue? Or what changed on a server? (Now available in OpInsights)
- IIS Log Format Requirements in Azure Operational Insights
- You asked & we delivered: Collect & Search IIS Logs in Operational Insights!
- You can now export Operational Insights' search results to Excel!
- New Search Autocomplete & Intelligent Filter in Operational Insights!
- How to collect Syslog events in Azure Operational Insights thru Operations Manager (SCOM)
- New Active Directory Assessment Intelligence Pack in Azure Operational Insights!
- How to stop the receiving of Operational Insights Configuration Alerts (formerly ‘Advisor’) in Operations Manager
- Collecting text log files to Azure Operational Insights using System Center Operations Manager
- Collecting text log files to Azure Operational Insights using System Center Operations Manager
- Azure Operational Insights Onboarding Troubleshooting Steps
- 17 Part Series on Azure Operational Insights
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – System Update Assessment (Part 1)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Malware Assessment (Part 2)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Log Management (Part 3)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Capacity Planning (Part 4)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Change Tracking (Part 5)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Time Matters in Dashboard (Part 6)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – SQL Assessment (Part 7)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Connecting Directly with Microsoft Monitoring Agent (Part 8)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Alert Management (Part 9)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – The Azure Portal Experience (Part 10)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Usability Improvements (Part 11)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – AD Assessment (Part 12)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Removing Legacy Configuration Assessment (Part 13)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – New Onboarding User Experience (Part 14)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Plans and Retention (Part 15)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Collecting Logs from Azure Diagnostics (Part 16)
- Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Security and Audit (Part 17)
- Search Tutorial Blog Series
- Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part I - How to filter big data
- Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part II – More on Filtering, using Boolean Operators, the Time Dimension, Numbers and Ranges
- Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part III – Manipulating Results: the pipeline “|” and Search Commands
- Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part IV – Introducing the MEASURE command
- Azure Operational Insights Search HowTo: Part V – Max() and Min() Statistical functions with Measure command
- Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part VI – Measure Avg(), and an exploration of Type=PerfHourly
- Azure Operational Insights Search How To: Part VII – Measure Sum() and Where command
- Operations Management Suite Log Search How To: Part VIII – the IN operator and subsearches
- Operations Management Suite Log Search How To: Part IX – the DISTINCT command
Community Links
- OpsMgr Performance Collection Rules for Near Real-Time Performance Data Collection
- Operations Management Suite - Performance Monitor (Near Real-time)
- OMS Custom Fields - Data Extraction Feature
- Adding users to your OMS Subscription
- Operations Management Suite: QuickStart Guide (Series)
- Operations Management Suite – Wire Data Solution
- Operations Management Suite – Goodbye Silverlight and Other Stuff
- Updated: OMSSearch PowerShell Module
- Programmatically Search Operations Management Suite
- Windows Firewall Auditing with Operations Management Suite Part 2
- Windows Firewall Auditing with Operations Management Suite
- Auditing PowerShell with Operations Management Suite
- My Webinar on Log Analytics in Operations Management Suite
- Azure Operational Insights Becomes Microsoft Operations Management Suite and Gains Some Features
- Say Hello to the Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS)
- Azure Operational Insights Meets Active Directory
Social Media
- Twitter hashtag for OMS: #MSOMS
- Facebook group for OMS