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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SCVMM Host Not Responding. Error 2912– WinRM & The request is not supported (0x80070032)
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
Read moreQuick Tip: Running an exe/script on a Hyper-V host using SCVMM
Quick tip: 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
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 moreUnable to delete duplicate cluster resource for Hyper-V VM
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
Read moreSMA Runbook to set VM custom property… (or run PS script)
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
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 – Disabling ISO Media Sharing in SCVMM
Hello there! I often get asked if it’s possible to disable VMM users from ‘sharing’ ISO’s from the library when attaching to a VM. You can do this via applying a pre-configured Capability Profile and the Cloud and Virtual Machines. Note: Capability Profiles can only be assigned to Clouds, not
Read moreManaging a Hyper-V Datacenter– Converged Networking and RDMA
Server 2016 brings great new feature called Switch Embedded Teaming (SET). A great overview of SET can be found in this TechNet article. But to summarize, SET basically allows a Virtual Network Adapter to access the features available by RDMA. I won’t go into too much detail on RDMA, there
Read moreManaging a Hyper-V Datacenter – Extra thoughts & tuning..
I will add to this post over time with anything I can recall that has helped in the tuning of the many environments I’ve worked on… Edited: 30/11 – Thoughts on Dynamic Optimization Before I continue, as usual I’ll try not to repeat what you can already find out there,
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