Update a server is not a hard task to be done, especially if you have a WSUS server in place to update others, you may easily update hundreds or even thousand servers at a time with a click of a button. In this post we will show you another alternative that can help you with the important task of patching servers. Table of Contents 1 – What is Azure Update Management? 2 – Enabling Update Management 3 – Adding Azure VMs to Update Management 4 – Adding Non-Azure Vms to Update Management 5 – Scheduling Update Deployment 1 – What is Azure Update Management? Azure update Managemen ..read more

There are cases where a user leaves the company and he/she was working on specific projects or kept in touch with important contacts or clients. Those contacts don’t know that the user left the company and keep sending emails to that user. How do you send these emails to the new responsible person for those projects/clients? That is exactly here where email forwarding can help us to solve such a problem, among others. In this post, you will see how to: Enable Email forwarding using Office 365 portal Disable Email Forwarding Enable Email forwarding using Powershell Disable Email forwar ..read more

I decided to start this series of quick posts where I can show some scripts or cloud tips to help the admins on their daily tasks. To start it, let’s see how we can automate the export process of working with bacpac files. What is a bacpac file? A BACPAC file is a ZIP file with an extension of BACPAC containing the metadata and data from the database. A BACPAC file can be stored in Azure Blob storage or in local storage in an on-premises location and later imported back into Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, or a SQL Server instance. 1 – Exporting This process is quite easy to be ..read more

1 – What is Azure Automation DSC? 2 – Azure DSC Components 3 – Why Use Azure DSC? 4 – Deploying Azure DSC Powershell DSC is a tool that allows you to manage your IT and development infrastructure with configuration as code. This tool was brought to the cloud to help you configuring your servers, standardize them and to avoid configuration drifts, even if they are hosted in different cloud providers. Let’s find out more about this tool. 1 – What is Azure Automation DSC? It is a configuration management service for DSC (Desired State Configuration) nodes, they can be either physical ..read more

Table of Contents 1- What is Azure Front Door? 2 – How it works? 3 – Deploying Azure Front Door In a previous post, I was talking about Traffic Manager, but sometimes it could be hard to set up so complex resource to work with geo-distributed applications. That’s where Azure Front Door(FD) comes into play. If you don’t have network expertise, Azure Front Door represents a low entry barrier for geo-distributed applications. 1- What is Azure Front Door? Azure Front Door helps you to work with global consumer and enterprise applications by providing a way to define, manage and monit ..read more

Table of Contents 1 – Downloading and Installing the Converter Tool 2 – Converting the Virtual Machines 3 – Testing the Machines on Hyper-V Virtualization is essential nowadays. That unused piece of hardware it’s now useful. Most of the companies today virtualize their environment with VMware, Hyper-V or other product. For one reason or another, you might need to convert a VMware VM to a Hyper-V VM once in your life. Let’s check how we can perform that. 1 – Downloading and Installing the Converter Tool The conversion process shouldn’t be painful, that’s why I created a sc ..read more

Table of Contents 1 – The Error 2 – Fixing the Issue 3 – Booting the Virtual Machine In my previous post, I was talking about converting vmware vms to Hyper-V. The Windows machines worked fine because it’s all Microsoft products, the vm knows how to fix the driver issues. However, when you try to convert a Linux vm, you have to re-install the drivers of the new hypervisor, let’s understand a bit more in this post what happens with the linux vms after converting them. 1 – The Error When you start the vm, the following error has been thrown: Figure 1 : The Error This issue was caus ..read more

Table of Contents 1 – What is Traffic Manager? 2 – How it Works? 3 – Routing Methods 4 – Deploying the Traffic Manager 5 – Testing the Traffic Manager In a previous post, we talked about about Load Balancers, how they can be useful to load balance traffic between a set of virtual machines, but they are not useful when we are talking about multiple regions. Azure Traffic Manager helps you to have high availability when you have 2 or more regions. Let’s see what is Azure Traffic Manager, how it works and how to deploy it in this post. 1 – What is Traffic Manager? Azure Traffic ..read more

Table of Contents 1 – Checklist Before Migrating the Resources 2 – Validating the Checklist 3 – Migrating the Resources 4 – Considerations Before Moving the Resources When you are working with an Enterprise Agreement, you may need to migrate resources from one subscription to another once in your life. This post gives you an overview on how you can accomplish this task. But why exactly you would need to do this? Well, a few examples could be: Your company is restructuring the subscriptions; You have resources in a subscription that doesn’t make sense to be there, but you need ..read more

Table of Contents: 1 – What is an Azure Load Balancer? 2 – How it works? 3 – Why use Azure Load Balancer? 4 – Deploying your First Azure Load Balancer 5 – Testing the Load Balancer Hi, Today we are going to talk about a service in Azure called “Azure Load Balancer“. It is a layer 4 load balancer that distributes incoming traffic among healthy virtual machine instances. 1 – What is an Azure Load Balancer? Figure 1 : Azure Load Balancer It’s the single point of contact for clients and client applications. It refers to the distribution of workloads across multiple computing reso ..read more