Log Analytics — Articles by Jannik Reinhard

Azure Monitor Agent to monitor Windows devices (1/2) – Setup

Azure Monitor Agent to monitor Windows devices (1/2) – Setup

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In this blog post we want to have a closer look into a way to collect data from client systems to monitor them. With endpoint analytics Microsoft provides a very powerful way to analyze clients, remediate potential issues or also detect anomalies in the field. If you are interested in unaggregated and more detailed data to build custom solutions then the Log Analytics management agent is the right solution for you. This is the first part of a small series with two parts. In this part we will check how this service works and how to set it up, and in the other part how you can work with the data.

Diagram shows monitored object purpose and association.
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Mastering Intune Reporting and Analytics

Mastering Intune Reporting and Analytics

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In this new blog post I want to give you an overview of how you can start with reporting analytics with Intune. I already wrote several blogs on how to create custom reports via mail or Teams, and how to export and automate things. I also wrote a blog with an overview of the analytics capabilities of Intune. In this post I want to take a step back and give you an overview of how to start with this topic and which capabilities Intune offers.

Mastering Intune Reporting and Analytics
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Deep Dive into delivery optimization

Deep Dive into delivery optimization

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You can imagine that when a new Windows patch or a new version of a software is released and has to be installed on every Devices and many PCs start to download the content at the same time from a destination outside the corporate network, the Internet break outs are very busy. Or if the internet connection of a certain location has a low bandwidth the download of a large app takes a long time. But more and more organizations move their applications as well as the update management to the cloud and reduce their on premise infrastructure. To solve this problem microsoft has introduced a very good technology called Delivery Optimization. In this blog we would like to clarify what is DO and take a deeper look at how this works.

Deep Dive into delivery optimization
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Log Toast Notification Responses in Azure Log Analytics

Log Toast Notification Responses in Azure Log Analytics

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It is useful after triggering a remediation action or for simply getting feedback from the user/customer to have a kind of survey. Contacting them by mail usually results in very poor response rates. It is much better to contact them directly via a popup. A similar approach can also be useful for user-facing notifications, for example when configuring Windows Update reboot notifications. How you can implement this with the help of a Remediation script and write the response in a Log Analytics workspace I will explain in this blog post.

Toast notification response sent to Log Analytics workspace
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