Posts, a podcast and video series about Microsoft Azure by Marcos Nogueira.https://azurecentric.com/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-spot-virtual-machines/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-spot-virtual-machines/Today Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Spot VMs (see here the announcement). This is one of the features that I have been waiting to become general…Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTcomputespot-vmshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/error-0x800f081f-adding-features-windows-server-2016-azure-vm/https://azurecentric.com/posts/error-0x800f081f-adding-features-windows-server-2016-azure-vm/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.Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTcomputehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-remove-a-hostpool-from-the-windows-virtual-desktop-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-remove-a-hostpool-from-the-windows-virtual-desktop-on-azure/After a few times deploying a Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) infrastructure on Azure, I always found that sometimes you have the necessity to reset your environment, specially…Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTcomputepowershellvirtual-desktophttps://azurecentric.com/posts/moving-to-azure-series-how-to-get-the-azure-vm-unique-id/https://azurecentric.com/posts/moving-to-azure-series-how-to-get-the-azure-vm-unique-id/On this series, I want to explore all the situations that you might encounter when you are moving your workloads to the cloud, specially to Azure.Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTcomputelinuxwmihttps://azurecentric.com/posts/unable-to-rdp-into-azure-vms/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Sat, 19 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputerdptroubleshootinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-enable-rds-license-on-an-azure-vm/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Tue, 15 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputerdshttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-remotely-disable-network-level-authentication-nla-on-azure-virtual-machine/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputetroubleshootinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-update-management-for-linux-vms/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-update-management-for-linux-vms/Another day, I started to play around with the Update Management, to see how I could automate the patching of Linux VMs on Azure. I’ve been using this feature to patch Windows…Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputelinuxhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/unresponsive-azure-vm/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputecloud-shellportalpowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/serial-console-access-on-azure-virtual-machine/https://azurecentric.com/posts/serial-console-access-on-azure-virtual-machine/Finally come the day that Microsoft was able to announce this feature. Accessing the serial console on an Azure VM is a huge step forward. But why is so important? It’s huge!…Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMTcomputeportalhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/create-azurerm-vm-from-existing-vhd/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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,…Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputepowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/deploy-a-arm-vm-using-an-existing-vhd-in-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/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…Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputearm-templatespowershellvhdhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/virtual-machines-hyper-v-vs-azure-iaas/https://azurecentric.com/posts/virtual-machines-hyper-v-vs-azure-iaas/A lot of times, during the Azure Foundation workshops session that I usually deliver, the difference between Azure virtual machines and Hyper-V virtual machines comes up. So I…Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputeazure-site-recoveryhyper-vgeneration-2https://azurecentric.com/posts/virtual-machine-scalability-in-azure-part-1/https://azurecentric.com/posts/virtual-machine-scalability-in-azure-part-1/You can provide automatic scalability for Azure VMs by using Azure VM scale sets. A VM scale set consists of a group of automatically provisioned Windows or Linux virtual…Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputearchitecturepowershellarm-templatesazure-clihttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-monitor-and-manage-azure-classic-virtual-machines/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-monitor-and-manage-azure-classic-virtual-machines/On the last post, I talked about why you should use the classic virtual machines. Could be a lot of reasons or could be the way that you already started a few years and all of…Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-classic-virtual-machines-why-use-it/https://azurecentric.com/posts/azure-classic-virtual-machines-why-use-it/Other day I was with on a customer that ask me why he should not create Azure classic virtual machines? He did create much of his IaaS infrastructure on the classic portal. He…Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-secure-your-azure-virtual-machine/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-secure-your-azure-virtual-machine/We know that Microsoft Azure offers several technologies that help to keep your data secure in use, in transit, and at rest. But what additional security measures can we…Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputelinuxhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/virtual-machines-high-availability-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/virtual-machines-high-availability-on-azure/In general, you want your Azure virtual machine environment to be resilient to hardware failures and maintenance events that might occur occasionally within the Azure…Sat, 04 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTcomputearchitecturehyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-connect-to-a-virtual-machine-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-connect-to-a-virtual-machine-on-azure/Once you have created an Azure VM instance with the default settings, you will be able to connect to it.Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMTcomputelinuxhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-virtual-machines-using-the-azure-arm-portal/https://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-virtual-machines-using-the-azure-arm-portal/Creating a new VM by using the Azure Portal is a relatively straightforward process. However, it involves several steps, which you should be familiar with to implement the most…Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMTcomputelinuxhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-windows-server-2016-virtual-machine-on-azure/https://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-windows-server-2016-virtual-machine-on-azure/To create an Azure Resource Manager virtual machine from the Azure portal, perform the following steps: 1. Sign in to the Azure portal at portal.azure.com. 2. On the Hub menu,…Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMTcomputehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/classic-virtual-machines-in-azure-resource-manager/https://azurecentric.com/posts/classic-virtual-machines-in-azure-resource-manager/You can create still classic virtual machines from the Azure portal or by using Azure PowerShell. Although, Microsoft doesn’t recommend because it’s an old platform that they…Thu, 22 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMTcomputepowershellhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/arm-vs-classic-virtual-machines/https://azurecentric.com/posts/arm-vs-classic-virtual-machines/Right now, Azure allows us to use the classic and the ARM portal. They might be very similar, except the end-user experience (in this case the portal himself), because you can…Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTcomputevhd