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Today Microsoft made the Azure DNS service available for public preview. It’s been tested thoroughly in private preview the last couple of months but finally it’s available for everyone and we can start testing it even more. Azure DNS support the following records: * A * AAAA * CNAME * MX * NS
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So, as I wrote about last month, in Windows 10 we the ability to connect a Windows 10 device to Azure AD and authenticate our users that way. At that time there was no way to disconnect the device again though.. Well good news just rolled in today, with the
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Back in december Microsoft announced some news relating to Azure virtual network gateways. The most significant change was probably the high performance gateway which will let you push 200 Mbps through a Azure site 2 site VPN and 1000 Mbps if you’re using ExpressRoute. Besides this they also announced
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As you might know Windows 10 will allow us to use Azure Active Directory (AAD) to manage the device, Microsoft talked about this in the fall (http://blogs.windows.com/business/2014/11/07/windows-10-manageability-choices/) and with the latest public build (9926) the functionality is actually built-in! I should note
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As you might know Microsoft announced Network Security Groups for Azure at TechEd Europe. This feature allows us to create multi-tier environments with frontend servers isolated from our backend. Until now the solutions for those kinds of environments haven’t been pretty, so this is a huge improvement. How does
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Yesterday Microsoft announced general availability for the new G-series Azure VM’s. Those are some powerful machines with up to 32 CPU cores and 448 GB RAM (!) – you can see all the sizes here: They’ve even replaced the normal AMD CPU’s with Intel Xeon E3 v5 processors, which
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I ran into an issue today, when deploying a new VM in Azure. I’ve made a script to ease VM creation in Azure for myself and my colleagues (will publish this when it’s ready for general use) but I kept getting this error: [powershell]New-solvoitVM -VMName SOFTWARE1 -CloudService
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I recently ran into an issue after uploading a VM VHD to Microsoft Azure: The VM was not longer activated and prompted me for a license. How come? The VM cost in Azure includes license for the OS and I’ve migrated other servers to Azure without this happening. Turns
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When deploying VM’s in Azure, there are some things you should be aware of depending on the roles you’re going to use. One of them is Active Directory Domain Controllers which I’ll go through in this post. You should consider your goal before deploying any Domain Controllers.
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I’ve been doing a lot of Azure IaaS lately and got some things to share. This is the first of multiple posts about Azure VM’s and such. Microsoft has recently added the ability to set static IP addresses on VM’s created in Azure. Some things you should
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A while back Microsoft made Windows Azure Backup generally available. The service makes it possible to store your backups in Azure. Backups can be performed directly to Azure so there’s no need to keep track of backup tapes or whatever you’ve used for backups. What about pricing? The