Say What? Well, what I mean with this title is that we will move some resources from the classic Azure portal (ASM) to the new portal (ARM) with Azure Site Recovery (ASR). While doing this Proof of Concept, I also wanted to try out a few things that were on my Azure bucket list: – create […]
When you have VMs in Azure that are built outside of an Azure Vnet and you want to have that VM talking to another VM, or you need to set security boundaries, you will need to migrate this VM into an Vnet. In Azure (or even PowerShell), there is no option to link an existing networkless VM […]
For my customer I had to set up the VMM Delegated Administrator role for their Tenant Operations team in order to gain ‘connect to console’ functionality (without providing too much additional rights in the VMM console). Setting up delegated user roles is in fact very easy to follow: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg696971.aspx Trying this out in the QA environment […]
Preparing your AD can (and will) save you a lot of time if you do it properly. Heating up Google servers told me that there is very little or no info to be found regarding this part, so here is my input to whoever wants to read up on it. Design your infrastructure Before you start with the […]
At last ! This was something I was missing in our private cloud setup, we imported Management Packs for most of the environment’s building blocks, except for the storage spaces part as Microsoft did not release anything until now. As workaround,we have built and imported a custom written MP (ours was based upon known Event-IDs listed in Storage Spaces […]
After installation of the private cloud fabric, we noticed SMB Client 30308 alerts on one of our Hyper-V nodes when live migrating VMs:
Microsoft has decades-long experience building enterprise software and running some of the largest online services in the world. It has leveraged this to implement and continuously improve security-aware software development, operational management, and threat mitigation practices that are essential to the strong protection of data in the cloud. Security is built into Azure from the […]
It comes after an active week for Docker, which on Tuesday received a huge equity investment of $95 million, which the company said it will use in part to further its collaborations with partners including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and IBM. Microsoft also […]
Today I received a customer notification that their Windows Azure Pack Portal for Tenants was no longer available and the webpage was showing ‘500 internal Server Error’. This error code is pretty general, but we soon noticed that on the ADFS part, the certificate for signing the tokens was automatically renewed and as the new ADFS […]
Azure Upgrade and Fault domains As website admin I noticed that this particular blog post receives a lot of views and as this blog has been written 2 years ago it was time to provide an update 🙂 Azure provides an SLA of 99,9 on single instance VM’s on gold storage. For VM’s on standard […]