Azure Monitoring Cloud applications are complex with many moving parts. Monitoring provides data to ensure that your application stays up and running in a healthy state. It also helps you to stave off potential problems or troubleshoot past ones. In addition, you can use monitoring data to gain deep insights about your application. That knowledge […]
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 […]
What is Nano server? Nano server is a new installation option in Windows Server vNext that provides the lowest possible Windows footprint possible, significantly smaller even than Server Core. This is possible through a significant refactoring of the operating system and is focused around two key scenarios: Born-in-the-cloud applications Cloud platform – Hyper-V and Scale-out File Servers […]
This script checks the health and capacity of a Storage Cluster based on Windows Server 2012 R2 Scale-Out File Servers. It is written by Jose Baretto (MS storage guru) and should be present in your private cloud environment as it gives you good feedback on the storage healt. By default it will run and compare […]
As a consultant you often receive the question why ‘it’ doesn’t perform as it should. When driving a number of activities to improve performance in the server environment, Power Management Settings is one of those settings that can greatly improve or degrade performance on Windows Server. My experience is that good powermanagement settings regulary are […]
Malware Exclusions When building a Microsoft Private Cloud environment, Windows Server & System center are your main building blocks. Most likely, you will not only want to protect your investment, but also to get the most out of it right? To achieve that you will need to follow best practices as much as possible, and this takes time, as it […]
Would you like to have every available configurable item from Windows in 1 place? if the answer is yes then this is how you do it: Create a new folder wherever you like (for me, placing it on the desktop worked but feedback from others is that it might fail) Rename the folder to this (copy everything) […]