Microsoft Azure
When dealing with Windows virtual machines from the marketplace on Azure, sometimes a CD-ROM will temporarily be present in the first moments in the lifetime of a virtual machine or virtual machine scale set instances. Microsoft needs this drive to perform various actions like preparing and licensing the VM. If
Microsoft Azure
We have a lot of customers that want to use Canadian regions on Azure. Azure Recovery Services in Canada is not available in the portal as the moment of writing this article. A solution without a solid backup strategy is not really serious and cannot even be considered IMO. What
Microsoft Azure
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, at the end you should have your captured VHD in your storage account. Step by Step: How to capture your
Microsoft Azure
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 follow this guide, at the end you should have your captured VHD in your storage account. This post assume you
Microsoft Azure
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 follow this guide, at the end you should have your captured VHD in your storage account. Step by Step: How
PowerShell
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 for creating virtual machines instead of one offered in the gallery. Let me show you how you can achieve
Virtual Machines
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 about how to identify and quantify your performance requirements for standard VM scenarios but also key scenarios like SQL Server
Microsoft Azure
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 VM image captured using the Azure Resource Manager API (more detail just below) Things to know before you
PowerShell
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 right place... Prerequisites * Microsoft Azure PowerShell v0.9.4 or later, I used 0.9.7 * A custom
PowerShell
To improve security with our solutions, we use VNets on all our Azure subscriptions and do not expose remote desktop port (3389) publicly. Since internal endpoints are only reachable within a Cloud Service, this reduce the possible surface of attack. Connect to Cloud Services instances / Virtual machines without having to