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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]