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My recent video on Azure File Sync. Derived from the customer ready deck. FAQs: Do we have any GA dates? Can tell customers Azure File Sync GA will end of April, beginning of May Any restrictions on using/testing in Australia during preview. only 5TB Azure File Shares – 100TB Azure File Shares on the roadmap…
Automatically Start/Stop virtual machines, the Azure Reboot and more on this episode of the Need to Know podcast. Start/Stop VMs during off-hours solution in Azure Automation The Start/Stop VMs during off-hours solution starts and stops your Azure virtual machines on user-defined schedules, provides insights through Log Analytics, and sends optional emails by leveraging SendGrid. It…
New Azure VMs ND, DCv2 and the M series are all GA’d, another free eBook for developers, new WhiteBoard app and the Azure Application Architecture Guide on episode 171 of the Need to Know podcast. ND and NCv2 virtual machines now available ND and NCv2 virtual machines (VMs), as announced at Build 2017, are now available.…
VMware on Azure, free Azure ebook, Azure Stack @ ANZ plus more on the latest Need to Know podcast. Host VMware infrastructure with VMware virtualization on Azure Most workloads can be migrated to Azure easily using services like Azure Site Recovery; however, there may be specific VMware workloads that are unique and more challenging to migrate…
This week on the Need to Know podcast, ND series of VMs for Deep Learning & NCv2 series for HPC compute coming into GA in December, brand new NCv3-series VMs that use NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs. System state backup directly to Azure using Azure Backup and much more. Azure App Service and Functions on Azure Stack…
Sometimes you would want to create an Azure ARM based Virtual Machine using an existing VHD disk. It used to be much easier in ASM (Classic). However you can easily swap out the OS disk for a VM using PowerShell. Simply create a new (non-managed disk) based VM in Azure with new disks. Then you…
Sometimes you would want to add an additional Network Interface Card to a Microsoft Azure ARM (Azure Resource Manager) based virtual machine. PowerShell is your answer:
New Fv2 VMs (fastest in the public cloud), Cray Supercomputers and Azure Container Service (AKS) on the latest Need to Know podcast episode 168. Fv2 VMs are now available, the fastest VMs on Azure The new Fv2 VM family in Azure now generally available offers the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor (code-named Skylake), the fastest Skylake CPU in…
I am writing this for all PowerShell people, after endless hours trawling the web, there’s hardly any info on using Azure Functions with PowerShell and it’s not easy for non-developers or IT Pros who can use PowerShell only. Running PowerShell based Azure Functions allows you to do any type of function based stuff you would…
The PowerShell execution policy is there to protect us but not to stop us from doing the ‘not so best practice‘ things. Best practice would be to sign all your scripts with a code signing certificate, and by using ISE Steroids this makes this process much much easier with the click of a button. However…
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