Virtualization
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Azure Monitor – Virtual Machines
Today I wanted to talk about Azure Monitor and one of the new functionalities the Azure Team has added – Virtual Machine Monitoring. This is a perfect example of a continuous improvement and basing new features on user feedback, great job Azure! Now, to get started monitoring your virtual machines we will need to check…
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How Can you Manage Multiple Providers in Azure?
If you are running Azure infrastructure and have multiple providers that reach into your tenant, you know how difficult it is to log, audit, and monitor what your providers are actually changing inside your subscriptions. From the opposite view, if you’re a solution provider and you have to reach into multiple clients Azure subscriptions to…
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Can you Enable SMBv1 on Azure VMs?
Occasionally an enterprise environment will have a requirement to retain legacy authentication systems that may need to use SMBv1. What are the options when you move your services and infrastructure to Azure… When first looking at this challenge we really (really!) need to acknowledge the dangers and risks that when dealing with SMBv1… Read the…
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Virtual Machine Scale Sets – What are they for anyways?
Today we’re going to talk a little bit about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. What they do for us and why we would want to deploy VMs using scale sets. I’ve encountered a few situations where a business has deployed multiple systems to try and handle the growth of their systems during peak demand times……
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How to Remove an Email Account from Windows 10 Email & Accounts
Today’s tip is something that had me stumped for a few minutes, finding it difficult to track down how to remove an old email account from Windows 10. When adding an account to Outlook, the credential will appear in the Windows 10 Settings > Email & Accounts. Though not Azure focused, you can run into…
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Active Directory vs the Unknown – Part 2
Last time we left off having a Cannot Continue error while establishing a domain trust across a WAN link and with some unknown variables involved; but we had to give it a shot in this case. The good news is that we have the power of community and Microsoft to help us discover based on…
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Azure Monitor – Service Health Overview
Azure Monitor – Service Health blade can help you get a quick overview of your infrastructure’s health in the Azure datacenters. The old saying of ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ definitely applies. Many enterprise customers will have their infrastructure distributed… Read the full article at the link below…
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The Case of Where’s My Virtual Machine?
During the course of working with a client during an implementation, we discovered some pre-existing custom configurations at the VM level that when the virtual machine was rebooted…. Read the full article below…
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Application Gateway Re-IP Challenges
If you have worked with Application Gateways in Azure you’ll already know that they can be straight forward — unless you want to change the configuration. Recently I was working with a client that had to re-ip their systems as part of an integration… Read the full article at the link below…
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Azure Universal Print
The long-awaited cloud printing solution from Microsoft is on the way and available now in Preview for specific customers in Commercial and Education tracks. You must be also be a Microsoft 365… Read the full article at the link below.