Azure Arc Servers is a feature of Azure Arc that enables organizations to manage servers across different environments, including on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments, through a single control plane. This allows organizations to have a consistent management experience across all their servers, regardless of where they are located. At a
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Azure Stack HCI vs Azure Arc – simplified
Azure Stack HCI is a hardware appliance that allows businesses to run their own private cloud infrastructure on their own servers. It is designed for companies that want to keep their data and applications on-premises (i.e., not in the public cloud). With Azure Stack HCI, companies can create their own
Read moreAzure Stack Hub – Change Azure Subscription Registration
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
Read moreAzure 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 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This is for SQL Resource Provider (RP) 1.1.24.0 which is now superseded by 1.1.30.0 literally the next day after I executed the install.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
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: Highly Available App Service 1.4 on Azure Stack – Step 2: Deployment
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 process of the App Services resource provider on an Azure
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: Setup your Cloud Operator environment – Quick Tip!
Quick tip for all potential Azure Stack Cloud Operators As you’d be aware, essentially the majority of the Azure Stack extended setup requires PowerShell. Not only does managing Azure Stack require PowerShell, it requires specific modules, tools and PowerShell profiles… Oh, did I mention Azure Stack management requires PowerShell? This
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: Monitoring Azure Stack with SCOM
I recently had the task of enabling monitoring of an Azure Stack Integrated System using System Center Operations Manager. Below I will go through the process of how this is done and what to consider a long the way. Firstly, RTFM Secondly, you probably don’t need this blog post as
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