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Prepare for a wall of text – but don’t worry, I’ll explain the technical parts too. I’ve wanted to write this post for a while now, but haven’t got around to do it. It’s important though, and seems to be more important as more companies
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Let’s be honest.. Even though we have excellent tools to manage permissions for our Azure resources, sometimes we don’t know exactly what a given user or group has access to. There is however an easy way of checking this: Go to Azure Active Directory –> Users & Groups
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Back to basics! This is the first post in a series of posts, where I will dive into Azure Active Directory, and all the features around it. Not because Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or just AAD) is new, but because I think there is a gap in understanding exactly
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Last week at Ignite, Microsoft announced the public preview of a new Azure feature: Availability Zones. This is a huge thing, and once again the team behind the feature, has done fantastic work to collect feedback and providing testing scenarios. Thanks! What are Availability Zones? As you might know, Microsoft
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Just a short post, to describe how we got around the limitations of CSP, at my job, and why we did it. We recently moved all our Azure consumption from an Enterprise Agreement to CSP. The reasons was quite simple: 1. EA doesn’t offer the same discounts anymore, and
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As you might know, Azure Site Recovery is a great Disaster Recovery solution for on-premises environments. You can use it on pretty much any server you have, ranging from VMware, physical servers and of course Hyper-V. A feature I have wished for since I started doing Azure, is the ability
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I just had a scenario, where a customer is using VMs in Azure, with Managed Disks. Now, due to different events, they wanted to move their VMs to a different region. Normally that’s an easy task, copying the blobs from one Storage Account to another. It’s actually the
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A new awesome Azure feature has seen the light of day: Azure Managed Disks Why is that so awesome? Because it makes storage for VMs so much easier! Today when you want to deploy a VM, you’ll need a Storage Account to put the VHDs in. Storage Accounts has
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For years we’ve been fighting the never ending battle, of having too many Domain Admins. Now we have a new battle to win: Stop the use of Subscription Admins in Azure! In my consultant role, I see Subscription Admin role being used much like Domain Admins group is. I
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I just recently started looking into Veeam Backup, and one of the first features I wanted to test out is the ability to restore Hyper-V VMs directly to Azure. I tested this with Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5, which was released recently. My Veeam server is connected to VMM
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A while ago I posted a little rant about the migration experience from ASM to ARM, when moving to a new subscription in the same flow: https://cloudpuzzles.net/2016/10/asm-to-arm-migration-and-fun-with-key-vault/ After working with support for a weeks, we finally made it through our migration. The solution involved support
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Unbox and rack it Unboxing the whole thing is probably the most time consuming part of the installation. A few pictures: As you can see, a physical StorSimple appliance has 2 controllers. These are based on Windows Server 2012 R2, in a failover cluster configuration. The update mechanism used, is