Error 0x800F081F when adding features on Windows Server 2016 on Azure Virtual Machine
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.
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How to Connect Windows Admin Center with Azure
When I start a project with a new costumer and the conversation ends how to manage your workloads either On-Premises or on Azure, I always like to add the Windows Admin Center (WAC) as a topic on managing the workloads....
Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) Series #2 – The tools
On the previous and first post about the IaC Series, I wrote about the beginning on the IaC and did describe the tools. On this post I will detail all the tools that I have been using on my IaC...
How to update specified tag from a resource
The usage of Tags on Azure resources is a very common and very useful for several reasons that I will not cover on this post. Although in some occasions, if you need to update a Tag from a resource, because...
How to get Tags for all the resources on the same Resource Group
When you heavily use Tags on your Azure Resources, is very easy to reach the limits of the Tags that Azure allow to use on each resource. On the other hand, to be consistent on the Tags applied on those...
How to access Azure Blob Storage container via a SAS token
Today I received an email, from a colleague ask me if it’s there is a way that you can download the entire blob container having a SAS token via PowerShell.
Unable to RDP into Azure VMs
After patching all the Windows Server in Azure, a colleague calls me in panic, because their users, could not access their VMs through RDP. They were getting a CredSSP error (picture bellow).
How to enable RDS license on an Azure VM
In some organization, it’s common practice to have a jump server in Azure to be used, specially when you have several tools that need to run “locally” on the server. Usually this machine is on a segregated network and not...
How to remotely disable Network Level Authentication (NLA) on Azure Virtual Machine
Today, I received an email from a colleague, saying that he could RDP into his Azure VM after he rebooted the machine through the OS (applying patches). When he tried to access his Azure VM through an RDP session, he...
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...
Multiple Azure Subscriptions with one OMS Workspace
I was this week at one of my costumers, and one of the topics that came to the conversation was, how I can connect several Azure subscriptions within the same tenant to OMS?
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...
How to delegate access in Hyper-V
In some medium/large organizations, it is common practice to have different access levels for systems, such as administrator, help desk, support and auditor. When implementing virtual machine using Hyper-V Servers, it is also important to reflect these access levels as...
Managing Hyper-V Server remotely through PowerShell
Working with PowerShell can be very common for daily tasks and Hyper-V Server management. However, as there is more than one server to be managed, sometimes it can be difficult to log on and run the PowerShell scripts (most of...
Restoring Hyper-V and Virtual Machines using Windows Server Backup
Cluster, Hyper-V Replica, Storage Migration, and other features makes for a higher availability for Hyper-V virtual machines, but it is impossible to provide 100 percent assurance in any system.
Backing up Hyper-V and virtual machines using Windows Server Backup
Previous versions of Hyper-V (like 2008, 2008 R2 and 2008 R2 SP1) had complications and incompatibilities with the built-in backup tool, forcing the administrators to acquire other solutions for backing up and restoring.
Enabling and disabling the graphical interface in Hyper-V Server Core
Server Core has many installation benefits, but there are a few situations where the GUI is better and provides more options; for example, when we need to troubleshoot a problem on the server. Even with the handy tools from the...
Managing a Hyper-V Server Core installation using sconfig
With all the benefits that Server Core bring such as performance, security and so on. But without the GUI, it’s not easy to do the daily management and maintenance of Hyper-V. If you want to change the computer name or...
Installing and running Hyper-V 2012 R2 from a USB stick
Hyper-V 2012 R2 Server is the free version of Hyper-V and it offers all the components and features that are available in Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V. It is a Windows version containing only the Hyper-V bits and the...
Configuring constrained delegation to authenticate live migrations
Constrained delegation allows live migrations to be started using any remote management tool and might help in providing more flexibility to move your VMs.