If you find yourself in a scenario where you need to change the registration subscription of an Azure Stack Hub deployment, the below is what you need to do to complete the task.. High level: Gather info or source and destination Remove existing registration Register to new subscription Gather
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Azure Stack tenant portal missing resource types & properties
Quick tip: Another day in the life of a Cloud Operator Got a call from a user who was in the Azure Stack tenant portal and could access some resource types but not others and when in those resources blades the info was all weird (technical term…) as shown below:
Read moreHappy #SysAdminDay & WIN with Altaro VM Backup today!
To celebrate their 10th anniversary & SysAdmin Day 2019, Altaro is giving SysAdmins and IT professionals the opportunity to share their best IT story and WIN fantastic prizes! Throughout our careers, we all gather daily stories worth telling, from tech situations to funny anecdotes, terrible mishaps or incidents with
Read moreAzure Security Center: How to Protect Your Datacenter with Next Generation Security
I suggest you check out this Free Webinar by Altaro Azure Security Center: How to Protect Your Datacenter with Next Generation Security Security is a major concern for IT admins and if you’re responsible for important workloads hosted in Azure, you need to know your security is as tight as
Read moreMicrosoft MVP again!
Last week I received the exciting news that I had been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for another year. It is an absolute honour to be considered for this amazing award, let alone actually receiving one. If you’ve being paying attention to my activities, not that I expect you would
Read moreRename VMs in cluster to match SCVMM naming
Another one from the vaults: If you’ve been using Hyper-V clusters with SCVMM, you’ll probably notice the cluster resources named a specific way when the VM role is made highly available with SCVMM. example shown below: Now if you’re a bit of a nutter like me, and can’t stand
Read moreHyper-V and VMQ’s – Mythbusting
Updated in May 2022: For about a year or so now since MS made some tweaks and a growing confidence in the out of the box settings, the optimal position has changed on WS2019. Essentially leave VMQ in default settings for Windows Server 2019. A few months after this ranty
Read moreMS Ignite Tour – Sydney
Excited to be speaking at Microsoft Ignite The Tour in Sydney. For those coming along, below are my sessions and demo times slots… If you see me make sure you come up and say hi!
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: SQL Resource Provider on Azure Stack – Step 1: Deployment
This is for SQL Resource Provider (RP) 1.1.24.0 which is now superseded by 1.1.30.0 literally the next day after I executed the install. The only reason for posting this blog is to give a baseline for my update SQL RP post. The exact same install process will work for any
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: Highly Available App Service 1.4 on Azure Stack – Step 1: Design considerations
You’re a cloud operator for an Azure Stack Integrated system and for whatever reason you have the task of deploying the App Services Resource provider… In this blog series, I’m going to take you through the considerations and deployment processes I went through for the App Services resource provider on
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