Introduction I’ve started to get more and more questions from customers about the Azure Monitor Agent, and how it’s different from the Microsoft Monitoring Agent, or Log Analytics Agent as it’s also known as. I will try to cover installation, configuration and troubleshooting in this post. This
Today I had to deploy Azure Firewall Premium SKU in a Virtual WAN hub in Southeast Asia region. I used the same script as I’ve been using previously with the same customer, but I kept getting an error: New-AzFirewall : Long running operation failed with status ‘Failed’. Additional Info:’An
Working on a customer project, we needed to limit the VM SKUs that researchers could use in their Azure ML projects. We wanted them to be able to create compute instances themselves, but within the limits of our budgets. I came up with a policy that is flexible in the
I’m currently working on a project where I need to deploy and Azure Function, that gets a secret from Key Vault using it’s Managed Identity, and uses that secret to authenticate to an API. In a drawing, this is what I needed to do: Not a big thing,
I’m currently working on a project to deploy secure Azure Machine Learning workspaces. This involves Private Endpoint, and a tightly locked down network with all the tools we have available. One of the limitations we were trying to put in place, was the ability to download files from the
Lately I’ve seen this a few times at a customer, where we’re deploying Azure Automation and importing modules, as part of an ARM template. The module doesn’t finish importing, it’s just stuck in “Importing newer version”. Luckilly, there’s an easy fix for this. Using Azure
Welcome to this next post in my series about Azure Monitor for Service Providers. This post will answer questions about the number of subscriptions needed, how to delegate access, and pros and cons for whatever choice you make. First of all, this series assumes you’re a Microsoft CSP Provider,
Last year at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, I talked about Azure Monitor, and how we replaced our System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) with it. We are in some ways a Managed Service Provider, and I keep getting questions from these type of companies, about how to move from SCOM to
Time to revive this blog. It’s been waaay to inactive lately, while I’ve been busy on customer projects, and figuring out where my blog should go. A lot of what I previously blogged, is now in Azure documentation and a large number of blogs. I’ve decided to
I recently had to help a customer with a restore from Azure. They were hit by ransomware and got their file server encrypted. Not an issue, they had Azure Backup configured by doing a file backup of the full VM (vhdx files), so it could be restored. Then came this
I just had to migrate a Storage Account from ASM to ARM, and ran into some issues while doing this. This time the error was a bit difficult to figure out, because the Validate step completed successfully, but the Prepare step failed with “internal server error”. [code]<br&
If you’ve ever had to restore af VM in Azure, you might have looked around for some information regarding the progress of the job. It’s pretty much standard for backup products, to show how far the job is, ETA etc, but not yet in Azure. There is however