Azure Sydney outage between February 17 and 29, 2016

…. From Microsoft: The root cause of this issue was excessive load on one of our storage scale units in the region. Due to unprecedented demand in this region, this storage scale unit was operating under higher than expected load and capacity pressure. This caused intermittent high latencies for storage transactions on this scale unit, which may have resulted in failures for some customers. The Azure Storage team rebalanced workloads across the entire region, which mitigated some of the failures while the team deployed a new scale unit. This allowed us to direct new customers to the new unit and…

Remote PowerShell / WinRM

There’s a lot of articles online how to setup remote PowerShell or how to configure remote PowerShell. I have found that all articles on how to setup remote PowerShell are not all complete. As in there’s some information there, different parts of information all over the place across different posts and not in the complete order and/or missing steps. You need Remote PowerShell to administer Windows servers and these days with PowerShell, you can do everything and anything with PowerShell, so remote PowerShell is a must. Remote PowerShell is a little hard to setup and comes in two flavours, HTTP…