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Chiyo Odika

Chiyo is a Technical Architect within Concurrency's Infrastructure Practice. He holds Microsoft Private Cloud, and Server Infrastructure certifications, and avidly enjoys working on deployments of Microsoft's Server and Cloud Platforms, including Microsoft Systems Center, Windows Server, and Microsoft Azure.

Contributions by Chiyo Odika

Troubleshooting Azure OpInsights Capacity Planning Data Aggregation Issues

I'm an ardent user of the Azure Operational Insights (OpInsights) service and I keenly follow the latest developments, from new Intelligence packs to search data syntax improvements, and so I'm singl...

by Chiyo Odika Mar 19, 2015

Disable Importing of Operational Insights Alerts into Operations Manager

If you are familiar with Azure Operational Insights (OpInsights), and have seen it in action, then you no doubt acknowledge that the presented configuration and usage data for your environment is rat...

by Chiyo Odika Jan 28, 2015

PowerShell Queries and Square Brackets

I recently encountered an interesting issue while trying to query class instances in SCOM. The class instances for certain classes will return the parent class as well as associated classes in the fo...

by Chiyo Odika Jan 6, 2015

New Intelligence Pack for SQL Server Assessment is Available in System Center Advisor

Adding to the robust set of features and assessment scenarios that System Center Advisor provides by means of Intelligence packs for capacity planning, security assessment, system update, malwar...

by Chiyo Odika Oct 23, 2014

Data Aggregation Fails in System Center Advisor after Applying VMM Update. Hello Change Tracking!

I recently encountered an interesting issue in System Center Advisor. Data aggregation appeared to be failing for several System Center Advisor intelligence packs when only hours before, data aggrega...

by Chiyo Odika Oct 7, 2014

Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview

There were several announcements during TechEd North America 2014, but of particular interest to me was that of the System Center Advisor preview. UPDATE: System Center Advisor is now a part of the ...

by Chiyo Odika May 27, 2014

Monitoring Azure IaaS with Operations Manager 2012 - The basics

Technorati Tags: OpsMgr,MOM,SCOM,Azure IaaS,Azure VM,Monitoring A customer recently posed a question, and it was one that coincided with a subject I had been meaning to write about for some tim...

by Chiyo Odika Mar 4, 2014