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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Happy #SysAdminDay & WIN with Altaro VM Backup today!
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
Read moreRename VMs in cluster to match SCVMM naming
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
Read moreHyper-V and VMQ’s – Mythbusting
Ok, so this has been something that’s been brewing for years now… Having worked with many clients who have had Hyper-V issues related to VMQ, and spending a lot of my time debating incorrect/stale blog posts, I feel it’s time to set to story straight. So please excuse me if
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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: 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This is for SQL Resource Provider (RP) 1.1.24.0 which is now superseded by 1.1.30.0 literally the next day after I executed the install.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
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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
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