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At one of my costumers, I needed to add the SMBv1 feature to enable communication with a legacy File Server running on Windows Server 2003.
Best Practices
A collection of 42 posts
File level restore on an encrypted Azure virtual machine
At the costumer site, I was delivering an Azure Workshop, on the topic of Azure Backup, comes the following questions: On a VM that have encrypted disks, how can we restore it? What is the solution to restore file level...
Best practices to architect Resource Groups in Azure
On a workshop at the client, we were talking about what are the best practices to design an architecture for Resource Groups (RG) in Azure. This time we have a good time debating what will be the scenarios and what...
Monitoring Azure File Sync
After implementing Azure File Sync, you wonder, how I can monitor what I just implemented? My first thought was to investigate in the Azure Resource himself, to look the sync service and see whether there are any diagnostics settings which...
Azure Policy – Auditing public blob storage
In a Governance project, one of the most common policy to implement is the one that you don’t allow any blob storage to be public. That usually could be a major information breach. When you make a blob storage in...
Azure Policy – Allowing only define VM sizes
Azure Policy is the big step to start to have some sort of governance on your Azure environment. It’s really easy to implement, efficient and powerful. With Azure Policies, you can control how and what you allow users to deploy....
Choosing the type of Azure Blob storage for SQL Backups
During the storage design on the Azure Foundation workshop that I usually deliver on a beginning of a new Azure project, come the topic and following that, the discussion about what type of storage should we choose for the SQL...
Instant VM Recovery using Azure Backup
We all know that Azure is grow and evolving in a very fast pace. On a project that I’m working right now, I had the opportunity to work with big VMs (M Series), although working with those kinds of VMs...
Unresponsive Azure VM
Another day I was at one of my costumers, and a system engineer come to me asking me if I could help him troubleshoot an issue with an unresponsive Azure VM. I love this moments, specially when I can always...
Azure VNet-to-VNet VPN configuration – Part 3
In this blog post series, I will cover what you need to configure to create a VNet-to-VNet VPN between to Azure regions on the same subscription. Although is about the same configuration if you want to configure two different VNets...
Azure VNet-to-VNet VPN configuration – Part 2
In this blog post series, I will cover what you need to configure to create a VNet-to-VNet VPN between to Azure regions on the same subscription. Although is about the same configuration if you want to configure two different VNets...
Azure VNet-to-VNet VPN configuration – Part 1
In this blog post series, I will cover what you need to configure to create a VNet-to-VNet VPN between to Azure regions on the same subscription. Although is about the same configuration if you want to configure two different VNets...
Disaster Recovery solution within Azure – Part 2
On the previous post (see here), I create the Recovery Service vault that is required to configured the Site Recovery infrastructure to protect the workloads, in order to have a Disaster Recovery solution within Azure. In the post, I will...
Disaster Recovery solution within Azure – Part 1
We know that in the Public Cloud, special Azure, we are cover by the SLA. Although some organizations like to be redundant where it comes to critical workloads. In this post I will cover how you can setup a Disaster...
Deploy ARM Templates using Key Vault
I’ve been deploying to Azure a lot of resources, one of my favorite things is to create templates where I can reuse for other situations. But sometimes, and in some situations, you need to increase the security. That is where...
Azure Resource Manager PowerShell Module
If you are like me that like to have all the tools on your desktop/laptop, special the Azure PowerShell module, now your live is way easier. Not long time ago, you had to download the Azure PowerShell module through the...
Move VM between VNETs in Azure
This week I come into this scenario, I would like to move a virtual machine in azure between different VNETs. You might have different reasons to do it, but what is the best way to do it?
Create AzureRM VM from existing VHD
While I was helping a costumer creating a Azure RM virtual machine from an existing VHD, I adapt one of my existing scripts, with some search on internet, to improve my script, that I normally used to create Azure RM...
Deploy a ARM VM using an existing VHD in Azure
Another day, one of my costumer wants to rebuild a virtual machine from the existing VHD and place on the new Resource Group and on a different VLAN, but without transferring VHD. The idea was to park the VHD on...
Implementing Azure Site Recovery – Part 4 – Managing and Automating
After I post the series of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Planning considerations, I received an enormous quantity of feedback how It should be implemented, following those considerations. So, this is the last post of a series of 4 (see the...
Implementing Azure Site Recovery – Part 3 – For VMware Virtual Machines and physical server
After I post the series of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Planning considerations, I received an enormous quantity of feedback how It should be implemented, following those considerations. So, this is the third post of a series of 4 (see the...
Implementing Azure Site Recovery – Part 2 – For Hyper-V Virtual Machines in SCVMM Clouds
After I post the series of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Planning considerations, I received an enormous quantity of feedback how It should be implemented, following those considerations. So, this is the second post of a series of 4 (see the...
Implementing Azure Site Recovery – Part 1 – For Hyper-V Virtual Machines
After the series of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Planning considerations, I received an enormous quantity of feedback how It should be implemented, following those considerations. So, this is the first post of a series of 4 about how to implement...
Azure Site Recovery Planning Considerations – Part 4 – For VMware Virtual Machines and physical server
On these post series, I want to cover some of the planning considerations that I usually use, when I’m designing/planning with my costumers, an ASR deployment/infrastructure. I broke down in several posts so I can cover and make easy to...
Azure Site Recovery Planning Considerations – Part 3 – For Hyper-V Virtual Machines in SCVMM clouds
On these post series, I want to cover some of the planning considerations that I usually use, when I’m designing/planning with my costumers, an ASR deployment/infrastructure. I broke down in several posts so I can cover and make easy to...
Azure Site Recovery Planning Considerations – Part 2 – For Hyper-V Virtual Machines
On these post series, I want to cover some of the planning considerations that I usually use, when I’m designing/planning with my costumers, an ASR deployment/infrastructure. I broke down in several posts so I can cover and make easy to...
Azure Site Recovery Planning Considerations – Part 1
I have been writing quite a bit about how Azure Site Recovery can help you build a Disaster Recovery solution, help you migrating workloads in to Azure, help you migrate between VMware to Hyper-V and so many more others ways...
How to configure your Hybrid Network Solution with Azure
By combining the existing Azure networking features, it is possible to configure Azure virtual networks to function as an extension of your on-premises datacenter. You have the option of deploying multi-tier production workloads in Azure and making them available via...
Creating an ExpressRoute VPN on Azure
To understand deeper what are the options you have to connect your datacenter/organization with Azure, I recommend read this older post. On this post I want to share what do you need to configure so you can implement an ExpressRoute VPN...
Creating a Point-to-Site VPN on Azure
To understand deeper what are the options you have to connect your organization with Azure, I recommend read this older post. On this post, I want to share what do you need to configure so you can implement a Point-to-Site (P2S)...