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If you want to troubleshoot DSC (Desired State Configuration)… You can easily run a DSC config script locally on your computer, apply the MOF manually on-demand and watch it apply in realtime as per the below. The below are the lines of PowerShell code you need for testing. First though, make sure you run the…
Are you an IT Professional and being forced more into the DevOps world? It may seem scary, however it’s not that scary once you have the proper tools. The only difference is that you no longer have to stand or walk into a cold datacenter and stand in front of a server – it’s all…
The following will show you the step-by-step setup for Azure Migrate Deep Discovery, installing both the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (OMS / SCOM) and the Dependency Agent (Service Map / Wire Data). Azure Migrate has two types of discovery that logically runs in order, 1) a Light Discovery (agentless) which leverages the VMware inventory, and 2)…
Some of the announcements at Microsoft Build 2018 the other week: AI + Machine Learning ML.NET Microsoft Cognitive Services – Microsoft Speech Services Microsoft Cognitive Services – QnA Maker API Microsoft Cognitive Services – Language Understanding Speech to Intent Microsoft Cognitive Services – Bing Custom Search API Microsoft Cognitive Services – Bing Statistics Microsoft Cognitive…
Grab data/information from anywhere and store this in Log Analytics. Basically any log, any OS, any type of data can be captured on a loop and sent to a Log Analytics workspace on a constant basis, then can be used to pull out reports etc. My example below pulls the ‘Current Playing Song‘ out of…
Imagine you had a whole lot of data stored in Azure, you also want to save the most money in storage costs. By default, Azure Blob Storate is set to the Hot tier for all blobs, the most expensive storage costs, but the cheapest to read. To give you an idea of the cost savings,…
When working with Azure Files Sync, you create whats called a Sync Group, this Sync Group contains two parts, a Cloud Endpoint and one or many Server Endpoints. The Cloud Endpoint is an Azure Files Share (5TB Limit) and the Server Endoint is a folder on a server volume (not necessarily a share). Due to…
Automatically move VMs from anywhere & to anywhere in Azure: Move VMs across subscriptions Move VMs across tenants In the same region or across regions No downtime on the source VM (if there’s no data disks), the source VM remains in-tact Copies both the OS disk and any data disks attached to the VM Both…
Creating a Scheduled Task to run at logon with a delay is somewhat cumbersome with PowerShell, so as a result, you need to call the Task Scheduler Scripting Objects. Below walks you through it.
Mark Russiovich is the CTO of Microsoft Azure. When Mark Russiovich came to Australia for the first time just last week, it was for a very special event, the opening of the two Canberra Azure regions with a special event April 3 & April 5 in both Sydney & Melbourne. There’s me with the man…
