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:
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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
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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: 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: Registering Azure Stack as CSP
So, if you’ve found your way here you have got yourself an Azure Stack Integrated System and need to register it as a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP). Before we registered we needed to identify the type of subscription we want to use. The choice is a CSP or APSS subscription.
Read moreAzure Application Gateway with WAP and HTTPS using PowerShell
So over the last year or so I’ve had a lot of fun extending client environments to Azure. One of the methods I’ve used has been leveraging Azure Application Gateway (AAG) with Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect these services. The AAG’s with WAF have been a very fast and
Read moreLight up your Hyper-V Datacenter in minutes with OMS
In a recent project, the management were keen to see some dashboards and insights into their organizations shiny new infrastructure. Whilst SCOM gives some great data and statistics, it’s not overly helpful in demonstrating the high level view to management out of the box. This is where Microsoft Operations Management
Read moreQuick tip: Add second NIC to ARM VM using PowerShell
This is one I use regularly, so thought it might come in handy for you.. Assumption here is you are connected via PowerShell to your intended subscription.. A few key points: The VM will need to be stopped to execute Check the Azure VM sizing to see how
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