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  • How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 5 – PowerShell Templates

    How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 5 – PowerShell Templates

    Using PowerShell to deploy a JSON template via GitHub is our final stop on deployment of Microsoft Azure virtual machines. We’ve looked at 4 other ways to deploy a VM in Azure so far and today we look at…

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  • How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 4 – JSON Templates

    How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 4 – JSON Templates

    Today we continue our deployment of Microsoft Azure virtual machines and start exploring JSON and ARM templates. There are a lot of ways to do deployment as we continue our look at the options. Let’s look at templates in JSON for creating VM infrastructure.

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  • How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 3 – PowerShell in Cloud Shell

    How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 3 – PowerShell in Cloud Shell

    Today we continue our deployment of Microsoft Azure virtual machines. There are many ways to do this – some manual – and some that support automation; we’ll continue our look at the options. Still a great way to get started with your Azure Infrastructure deployments is right in the Azure Portal, let’s take a look…

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  • How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 2 – CLI in Cloud Shell

    How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 2 – CLI in Cloud Shell

    Today we continue our deployment of Microsoft Azure virtual machines. There are many ways to do this – some manual – and some that support automation; we’ll continue our look at the options. Let’s take a look at CLI for creating VM infrastructure…

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  • How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines

    How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines

    Let’s talk about how to deploy a Microsoft Azure virtual machine. There are many ways to do this – some manual – and some that support automation; we’ll look at quite a few of the options starting with some simpler ones first. A great way to get started with your Azure Infrastructure deployments is right…

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  • Update PowerShell Using PowerShell

    Update PowerShell Using PowerShell

    Need to update to the latest PowerShell version? Check out how to make this your easiest upgrade yet! Remember to test any existing code you have published or run once-and-a-while; then update your VMs and systems that you don’t touch often, that way everything is on the same version.

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  • Video – Setting up for a Demo with Azure CLI

    Video – Setting up for a Demo with Azure CLI

    Join me for a start to finish Azure CLI walk-through of creating resources to use for testing or doing a demonstration in Azure. I create a Debian and Windows Server VM in about 5 minutes then we clean everything up when we’re done. Let’s build some Azure resources together and see just how easy and…

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  • Can you Enable SMBv1 on Azure VMs?

    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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  • Active Directory vs the Unknown – Part 2

    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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  • Active Directory Trusts vs the Unknown

    Active Directory Trusts vs the Unknown

    While working on a project to get two different versions of Active Directory to talk nicely to each other, there were some good challenges arise. The most interesting has been some investigation around ports, Network Security Groups, Azure Firewall…. Read the full article at the link below….

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