A selection of media I’ve been a part of at SolarWinds, THWACK Tech Tips, THWACKcamp, and others.
THWACK Tech Tips
Best Practices for Orion Upgrades
Building Automation Rules in SolarWinds Service Desk
Change Management 101
Clean Up Directories with Direct Permissions in Bulk
Clean Up Multiple Access Paths to the Same Directory
Change Management Database (CMDB)
Create Email Alerts with Ease in Database Performance Analyzer
Creating a Service Catalog Item
Creating Change Management Templates
Creating Custom Reports within SolarWinds Service Desk
Employee Portal Experience
Grant and Remove File Server Access Rights
Helping Users Wherever They Are With DRE
How to Add PerfStack Widgets to Your Orion Dashboard
How to Analyze and Manage User Access Rights for Microsoft Teams
How to Check the Compatibility of Your Orion Products Before Upgrading
How to Configure Dashboards in SolarWinds Service Desk
How to Connect with Other Community Members on THWACK
How to Create an Easy-to-Navigate Employee Portal in SolarWinds Service Desk
How to Create Groups Using Dynamic Queries
How to Discover Assets from Multiple Sources
How To Do Bulk Firmware Updates With NCM
How to Export Transaction Check Data with the Pingdom API
How to Find and Stop SQL Injection Attempts on Your Websites
How to Harden Servers with PowerShell and Change Monitoring
THWACKcamp 2024
OpenTelemetry for Non-Developers
A Better Approach to DataOps
Silos are for Grain, Not IT
It’s a Beautiful Day in the SWOC-erhood: Real World Applications of SolarWinds Observability
THWACKcamp 2022
Practical Examples Using the Orion API
It’s Not the Network: But It’s Still Your Problem
The Notification Decision Tree
THWACKcamp 2020
Crafting Alerts that Get Noticed
When a Map? Why a Map? How a Map? Why Orion Maps Are for Everyone.
Intro to APIs for People Who Hate to Program
THWACKcamp 2019
The Four Questions Every Monitoring Engineer Is Asked
Upgrade, Migrate, or Both?
THWACKcamp 2018
There’s an API for That: Introduction to the SolarWinds Orion SDK
Monitoring Like a Network Engineer When You’re a SysAdmin
Visibility in the Data Center
Tips & Tricks: Thinking Outside the Box
THWACKcamp 2017
If It’s Not in the Ticket, It Didn’t Happen
Orion at Scale: Best Practices for the Big League