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Category: Quick Tips

Azure Azure Stack Quick Tips

Azure Stack tenant portal missing resource types & properties

19/07/2019 Dan 0

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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Azure Hyper-V Quick Tips Windows Server

Happy #SysAdminDay & WIN with Altaro VM Backup today!

18/07/2019 Dan 0

  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

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Hyper-V Powershell Quick Tips SCVMM

Rename VMs in cluster to match SCVMM naming

08/07/2019 Dan 0

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

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2016 Azure Stack Powershell Quick Tips

Adventures of a Cloud Operator: Setup your Cloud Operator environment – Quick Tip!

15/11/2018 Dan 0

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

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Hyper-V Quick Tips SCVMM

SCVMM Host Not Responding. Error 2912– WinRM & The request is not supported (0x80070032)

21/07/2018 Dan 0

Quick and dirty answer – Windows Updates relating to CredSSP updates for CVE-2018-0886   The fun story time answer I’ve seen this one a few times now so thought it best to share with you all as many clients have gone around and around in circles with this one. The

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2016 Hyper-V Powershell Quick Tips SCVMM Software Defined System Center Windows Server

Installing Azure Site Recovery Agent (i.e. running an exe/script) on a Hyper-V host using SCVMM

12/07/2018 Dan 0

From time to time I have the requirement to deploy/update a basic app or run a script on my Hyper-V hosts. This is relatively simple using remote PS session or if you have SCCM managing your fleet. But sometimes you need to just push something out fast and luckily SCVMM

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Azure Powershell Quick Tips

Azure Application Gateway with WAP and HTTPS using PowerShell

30/04/2018 Dan 0

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

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2012 R2 2016 Hyper-V Powershell Quick Tips SCVMM Uncategorized Windows Server

Unable to delete duplicate cluster resource for Hyper-V VM

12/01/2018 Dan 0

Quick tip: You find yourself with duplicate HA roles for a virtual machine and you’re unable delete the problematic resource… Symptoms: Duplicate cluster roles for a virtual machine. When attempting to delete, you get the error: Error code: 0x8007012f The file cannot be opened because it is in the process

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2016 Azure Pack Hyper-V Powershell Quick Tips SCVMM

SMA Runbook to set VM custom property… (or run PS script)

10/01/2018 Dan 0

A word… Having worked with many clients over the years, the commonality between many of them an under-utilization of automation. Even the biggest of Microsoft shops fall short when it comes to automation, regularly being confused about the options they have and often fear of introducing a new tool to

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2016 Azure Hyper-V OMS Quick Tips SCOM

Light up your Hyper-V Datacenter in minutes with OMS

23/11/2017 Dan 0

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

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