A decent update with a few good fixes for issues that will improve the quality of life for SCOM users. Of course a really nice new feature is the ability to do an Azure migrate assessment via the SCOM console. I for one think that’s fantastic! Get it here What’s new? Discover Azure Migrate, generate Business Case & Assessment through Operations Console. What’s fixed? Fixed an issue which was causing hang in SCXOM modules because of infinite loop due to incorrect usage of GetExitCodeThread in the Thread::Thread class Updated documentation mentioning that domain accounts are not supported ..read more

Challenges Click for challenges Onboarding: Here Challenge 1: Here Challenge 2: Here Challenge 3: Here Challenge 4: Here Challenge 5: Here Challenge 6: Here Challenge 7: This article Challenge 8: Coming soon Challenge 9: Coming soon Challenge 10: Coming soon I really enjoyed this week’s challenge, it has a fun story element and works well with some of the more interesting KQL features. I definitely get to keep my Kusto card after this one! General advice This time arounds the clues are not only crucial but also pretty cool, this case also has some similarities to case 4 from season 1 bu ..read more

Challenges Click for challenges Onboarding: Here Challenge 1: Here Challenge 2: Here Challenge 3: Here Challenge 4: Here Challenge 5: Here Challenge 6: This article Challenge 7: Coming soon Challenge 8: Coming soon Challenge 9: Coming soon Challenge 10: Coming soon I must say I enjoy a good puzzle as much as the next Kusto Detective, but this week was a real head scratcher. General advice For this challenge I found the clues to be of almost no help at all, the “train me” though is critical as is having a lot of patience for the final riddle. Challenge: Case 6 Case 6 challenge text Hey ..read more

Challenges Click for challenges Onboarding: Here Challenge 1: Here Challenge 2: Here Challenge 3: Here Challenge 4: Here Challenge 5: This article Challenge 6: Coming soon Challenge 7: Coming soon Challenge 8: Coming soon Challenge 9: Coming soon Challenge 10: Coming soon Prof. Smoke is back and so is the mysterious El Puente but an interview on a new secret KQL technology has gone missing! Luckily we have all the tools to track down the missing file. General advice I must say the clues this time around felt very fluffy, it seems that they are intended to be vague, and the meat of the t ..read more

Challenges Click for challenges Onboarding: Here Challenge 1: Here Challenge 2: Here Challenge 3: This article Challenge 4: Coming soon Challenge 5: Coming soon Challenge 6: Coming soon Challenge 7: Coming soon Challenge 8: Coming soon Challenge 9: Coming soon Challenge 10: Coming soon There sure is a lot of strange things happening in Digitown at the moment. This time cars are being stolen and it’s up to us to try and catch the thieves! This was an enjoyable case and requires a great spread of KQL and puzzle solving to catch those crooks. General advice If you have completed season 1 t ..read more

Challenges Click for challenges Onboarding: Here Challenge 1: Here Challenge 2: This article Challenge 3: Coming soon Challenge 4: Coming soon Challenge 5: Coming soon Challenge 6: Coming soon Challenge 7: Coming soon Challenge 8: Coming soon Challenge 9: Coming soon Challenge 10: Coming soon Time to catch some phishermen! I’m sure we have a special dislike for unsolicited phone calls, worse if it’s a potential scammer! Yet another great real-world use case for the power of KQL, I’m sure my Cybersecurity colleagues had a great time with this one. General advice For this case there are s ..read more

Challenges Click for challenges Onboarding: Here Challenge 1: This article Challenge 2: Coming soon Challenge 3: Coming soon Challenge 4: Coming soon Challenge 5: Coming soon Challenge 6: Coming soon Challenge 7: Coming soon Challenge 8: Coming soon Challenge 9: Coming soon Challenge 10: Coming soon In this first case we’re asked to solve a billing problem, not the most exciting thing but certainly interesting with some real-world applications for the use of data. I quite enjoyed this challenge as it reminded me to keep things simple and not discount any ideas as silly just yet. General ..read more

Challenges Click for challenges Onboarding: This article Challenge 1: Coming soon Challenge 2: Coming soon Challenge 3: Coming soon Challenge 4: Coming soon Challenge 5: Coming soon Challenge 6: Coming soon Challenge 7: Coming soon Challenge 8: Coming soon Challenge 9: Coming soon Challenge 10: Coming soon It’s exciting to have another season of the Kusto Detective Agency, this is an excellent way to learn KQL and gain some useful skills that are useful with many Microsoft products including Azure Monitor, Sentinel, M365 Defender and Azure Data Explorer (ADX ..read more

Welcome back detectives, to a new exciting season of Kusto Detective Agency, this time around there are 10 cases to solve and some new tools to help you sharpen those KQL skills! What is it? The Kusto Detective Agency is a set of challenges that is designed to help you learn the Kusto Query Language (KQL), which is the language used by several Azure services including Azure Monitor, Sentinel, M365 Defender and Azure Data Explorer (ADX) to name a few. The challenges are gamified and interactive and consist different exciting cases across two seasons. Each case has a different scenario tha ..read more

Career development planning can be challenging, time consuming and even overwhelming. I’ve looked at using popular AI tools such as ChatGPT to see if this process can be easier and let me tell you, it certainly can be. Here are several AI prompts and instructions that I’ve used to great effect and wanted to share so that others can benefit from them too. CareerGPT First CareerGPT which now comes in two flavors both of which will help you create a quality career development plan quickly and easily, which you can then use in future planning and career discussions. The guided experience (v1) – S ..read more