Microsoft Azure Best practices: How to handle sensitive data in Azure Resource Manager templates using Key Vault Have you ever wondered how you could land in the DevOps world of Config-as-Code without storing configuration secrets (e.g. passwords) as plain text in source control? In this series
Microsoft Azure How to use ARM Explorer to capture your own custom virtual machine image under Azure Resource Manager You have a v2 Azure Virtual Machine that has been generalized and are ready to capture it using ARM Explorer? All right, buckle your seat belt and follow this guide,
PowerShell How to get the status of a Virtual Machine under the v2 compute model in Azure PowerShell v1.0.x Getting the status of a virtual machine is really handy because once you have that information you can then take decisions and perform several actions on your virtual machines like
How to create a virtual machine from a custom image using ARM and Azure PowerShell v1.0.x You love PowerShell, have a custom VM image (specialized or generalized) and you want to create a new virtual machine from it under Azure Resource Manager API? You're at the
Microsoft Azure How to use Azure PowerShell v1.0.x to capture your own custom virtual machine image under Azure Resource Manager You have a v2 Azure Virtual Machine that has been generalized and are ready to capture it using Azure PowerShell v1.0.x? All right, buckle your seat belt and
Microsoft Azure How to use Azure PowerShell v0.9.x to capture your own custom virtual machine image under Azure Resource Manager You have a v2 Azure Virtual Machine that has been generalized and are ready to capture it using Azure PowerShell v0.9.x? All right, buckle your seat belt and
PowerShell Step by Step: How to capture your own custom virtual machine image under Azure Resource Manager The IaaS v2 resource providers (Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network & Microsoft.Storage) have been around for several months now and you may have wondered how to use your own custom images
Microsoft Azure Use uniqueString() function to generate unique names for resources in ARM template When playing with ARM templates in a team, you need a way to come up with unique names for your DNS dependent resources on Azure like storage accounts and public
Virtual Machines Understanding performance requirement and best practices with Azure Premium Storage In our modern world, IOPS, throughput and latency are key indicators when it comes to performance requirements of computers / Virtual Machines. I came across some really good best practices articles
Ghost How to troubleshoot Ghost installations & upgrades on Azure I recently upgraded a Ghost site from a quite old version to a new one and like we often see it in a deployment... it did not went as expected.
PowerShell ArtifactNotFound: References to Microsoft.Powershell DSC extension prior to v2.4 are broken and how to fix it If you are experiencing this error: "Extension with publisher 'Microsoft.Powershell', type 'DSC', and type handler version 'x.x' could not be found in the extension repository" it is because
PowerShell PowerShell 1.0.0-Preview is here... Switch-AzureMode is dead, at last! Azure PowerShell 1.0.0-preview is now available. It is in this version that the trigger is being pulled on Switch-AzureMode. Pow! Terminated! Gone!! Starting in version 1.0.0
Microsoft Azure I received a 2015 Microsoft Azure MVP Award It is with an immense pleasure that I got an email on October 1st 2015... The title was saying: Congratulations 2015 Microsoft MVP!, and inside: Dear Stephane Lapointe, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2015 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is
Microsoft Azure We are hosting a viewing party in Montreal for AzureCon 2015 By now, you sure have heard of the AzureCon virtual conference at the end of September, the 29th to be precise. I have the pleasure to hold a viewing party with other Azure passionate people and some MVPs in Microsoft Canada's office in Montreal.
Microsoft Azure How to create a virtual machine from a custom image using an ARM template Wish you could deploy your own virtual machines from a custom image (specialized or generalized) using an Azure Resource Manager template? He're is how to do it... Prerequisites * A custom
PowerShell How to create a virtual machine from a custom image using ARM and Azure PowerShell v0.9.x You love PowerShell, have a custom VM image (specialized or generalized) and you want to create a new virtual machine from it under Azure Resource Manager API? You're at the
Microsoft Azure Speaker session: Azure Resource Manager templates: improve deployment time and reusability I am very proud that my session named: Azure Resource Manager templates: improve deployment time and reusability has been selected for the COLLAB365 event in October this year (2015) Drastically
Microsoft Azure How to create Microsoft Azure 3D blueprints using the 3D Visio template Ever saw those beautiful Azure 3D blueprints from Microsoft and wanted to know how to create some yourself? The good news is that everything you need is now available. We
Microsoft Azure Groupe Azure: Développer des microservices avec Service Fabric J'aurai la chance de présenter le 1 décembre 2015 une soirée complète sur Service Fabric pour les membres de MSDEVMTL Voici le synopsis de la session en question: Une soirée complète sur Service Fabric! Nous débuterons par la base en explorant l'architecture de Service
Microsoft Azure You can now jump directly to some resources in Azure Resource Explorer from Azure preview portal The preview portal is in constant improvement and Azure web app got a little one lately. The ability from an Azure web app to jump to this specific resource in
Microsoft Azure Free Azure and .NET courses from Pluralsight for MSDN subscribers In your never ending quest for improvement, you may ask yourself where to get courses and content to learn more and more. You can find plenty of content on the
DevOps How to create and deploy a development machine on Azure using Azure Resource Manager template in Visual Studio Azure Resource manager have been around for a while now and it made provisioning quite easy and convenient. A couple of persons have asked me how to create and manage
PowerShell Set-AzureVMCustomScriptExtension: Multiple extensions per handler not supported The introduction of agents and extensions bring a lot of possibilities to virtual machines in Azure. The CustomScript extension let you run one or a set of scripts on a
PowerShell How to get the current Azure subscription information every time you start a new PowerShell session If you're like me and you open many PowerShell windows to work on Azure, this tip is for you. Am I on the right Azure subscription? At work and at
PowerShell Switch-AzureMode deprecation - Prepare yourself for the migration ahead The signal of the transition between ASM (Azure Service Management) to ARM (Azure Resource Management) APIs have been given not long ago with the recent deprecation of the Switch-AzureMode cmdlet in v0.9.2 of the Azure PowerShell cmdlets. Switch-AzureMode is now deprecated in
