Azure Storage Diagnostics
What is a diagnostic log? A diagnostic log provides information about the operations of a resource – in this case a storage account inside Azure.
Azure Migrate – Part 2
In my last article, you were introduced to Azure Site Recovery and Azure Migrate. These services allow you to discover, assess, and migrate workloads into Azure quickly using a framework built using the foundations of Azure Site Recovery. We talked a lot about disaster recovery foundations, technical requirements, and some key differences between ASR and Azure Migrate. Today, we’ll be working in Azure Migrate and we want to get you ready to do a test fail-over of a workload from your VMWare environment into Azure. There are lots of steps to follow, so give yourself about 3 hours to work through all the reading and steps. You may need to step out of this article to perform changes in your VMWare environment as part of your readiness. I want you to be comfortable using Azure Migrate so let’s get started!
Azure Migrate – Intro
Azure Migrate allows you to discover, assess, and migrate workloads into Azure quickly using a framework built using the foundations of Azure Site Recovery. Starting out with ASR is a solid and well-built foundation that allows you to replicate a source environment into Azure. Azure Migrate service is built on top of the foundation elements of Azure Site Recovery and provides a highly reliable and rapid method to sync your current data from VMWware, Hyper-V, physical servers on-premise, and AWS into Azure. This can be part of your disaster recovery plan, migration strategy, and migration testing. Azure Site Recovery has often been deployed as a major part of disaster recovery strategies for on-premise or existing Azure virtual machines.
A bit of basic information first. Azure Site Recovery will help you with:
• Console to manage discovery and connectivity to Azure
• Replication from source to Azure
• Testing your migration to ensure that you get your VMs in Azure as expected
• Cut-over migration into Azure
Azure Arc for Servers
Azure Arc for servers was announced this week at MSIgnite 2019. A very exciting service that allows for non-Azure machines to be connected to Azure and treated as a resource. This is the beginning of something amazing for administration, automation, and service unification.
Azure Maps Weather Services
With an increasing need in all businesses to have the latest and most accurate data, weather is no exception. With Azure Maps Weather Services, you can now integrate weather data into your web or other apps via API. Weather data has been floating around for a while now, but Azure has worked closely with AccuWeather to bring frequent forecast updates (hourly) to you so that you can make better decisions with the data.
Azure Updates Management
Azure Updates Management helps you keep your virtual machines updated without intervention and using an automated schedule. No need for additional third-party products with all the functionality build right into your Azure subscription. The ability to patch regularly addresses major security concerns and requirements for compliance by reducing risk footprints, patching flaws and bugs, and automating the process to remove human error.
Azure File Shares Got Bigger
Azure Blog announced this week the General Availability of larger storage and powerful new features for Azure Files. Azure Files is a secure, managed storage option within Azure offering data redundancy options and hybrid capabilities using Azure File Sync. For those that have been waiting for increased capacity and performance, the time is now to take advantage of this managed service offering and get your on-prem files synced into Azure File services for redundancy.
Azure CLI Introduction
If you are just getting comfortable using Azure or want to start learning a bit more about how to provision virtual machines using a method that can be automated and repeated quickly – stay tuned as we’ll cover some simple commands on using your free Azure account, connecting to Azure CLI, learning some test and demo commands, create a virtual machine, look at the potential to automate your code, and some common commands in Azure CLI.
Microsoft Virtual Desktop Service is now Available
Windows Virtual Desktop is a new cloud service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience that is optimized to work with Office 365 Pro Plus. The new offering makes it significantly easier to scale Windows 10 and Office deployments on Azure and comes with built-in security and compliance.
Update SSL Certificates on SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint WebApps Server
For the first official post to AzureTracks.com, I’ve decided to share an experience I had working with SharePoint 2013 certificates and WebApps. This happened before the official work to get this client ready for Office 365 Migrations. Before I was able to fully assess a client environment, their certificates expired on SharePoint