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Server administrators are going to be responsible for much of the networking that was not formerly in their scope. Azure Network Watcher is a great tool to help monitor and troubleshoot your network deployments.
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I will show you how to convert a virtual machine, not in an availability set, but with virtual hard disks in a storage account to a virtual machine using Managed Disks.
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Microsoft recently shared a detailed design for a secure network deployment in Azure, based on the United Kingdom’s cloud security principles. The focus of Microsoft’s article was on the UK, but we can use this design as a basis for other deployments.
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Get an explanation of methods you can use to configure the IPv4 address configuration of a Hyper-V virtual machine that is connected to a NAT virtual switch on Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 (WS2016).
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Get an overview of Azure AD Connect Health, a feature for monitoring the status of your synchronization or federation between on-premises Active Directory and the cloud-based Azure Active Directory.
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In this post, I will explain how Microsoft replicates data in very predictable ways, assuming that you want that data to be replicated. Mythology There are a lot of myths out there about Azure, such as Microsoft will replicate my virtual machines to a second region so that if there’s a problem in […]
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Aidan Finn shares details on when Microsoft plans to release Azure Stack, some partner news, how it will be licensed, and features in the new Technical Preview 3 (TP3) release.
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This post will show you how to deploy a new Azure virtual machine using Managed Disks using the Azure Portal. New Virtual Machine Log into the Azure Portal, and click New. Expand Compute and select an operating system such as Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. A blade will appear that describes the image that you have […]
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Aidan Finn walks you through how to use a new feature in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V called Key Storage Drive, which gives you the ability to encrypt your virtual machines’ disks.
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Amazon’s cloud service, AWS, recently had a major outage that affected almost an entire region. With that outage fresh in our memories, I thought I’d write a post on how to prevent services outages in Azure. Note that the focus of this article is Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The AWS Outage Amazon Web Services had […]
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