What are the Differences Between Azure Active Directory and Azure Active Directory Domain Services?
If you are moving, building, or subscribing to apps in Azure, you need to understand which flavour of AD to use. Azure Active Directory (AAD) Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AADDS) Active Directory (AD) Let's discuss the differences.WSL2 now available on Windows Server 2022
Hello folks! If you’re one of those Devs/ITPros using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) you know how useful and powerful it can be. We announced during Microsoft Build last week that WSL2 will be broadly available in June. But I could not wait. Here’s how I installed it. It’s pretty simple. Check it out!Wired for Hybrid - What's New in Azure Networking - July 2023 Edition
Hello Folks, Azure Networking is the foundation of your infrastructure in Azure. Each month we bring you an update on What’s new in Azure Networking. In this blog post, we’ll cover what's new with Azure Networking in June 2023. In this blog post, we will cover the following announcements and how they can help you. Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer Updated default TLS policy for Azure Application Gateway Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager Azure Virtual Network encryption Enjoy!Creating a traditional Windows Server Failover Cluster in Azure
Hello Folks, As we announced last month (Announcing the general availability of Azure shared disks and new Azure Disk Storage enhancements) Azure shared disks are now generally available. Shared disks, is the only shared block storage in the cloud that supports both Windows and Linux-based clustered or high-availability applications. It now allows you to use a single disk to be attached to multiple VMs therefore enabling you to run applications, such as SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI), Scale-out File Servers (SoFS), Remote Desktop Servers (RDS), and SAP ASCS/SCS running on Windows Server. Thus, enabling you to migrate your applications, currently running on-premises on Storage Area Networks (SANs) to Azure more easily. Let's see how I’ve deployed a traditional Windows Cluster in Azure.Connect to your on-prem server from anywhere!
Hello Folks, A few weeks ago, I wrote about upgrading my local network edge device with one capable of connecting to my Azure virtual network using a site-to-site VPN. I also mentioned that I would cover many other services and capabilities that this site-to-site VPN configuration enables for hybrid work and management. This week I’m covering the ability to connect to your on-premises, non-Azure, and Azure virtual machines via Azure Bastion over ExpressRoute or a VPN site-to-site connection using a specified private IP address over RDP and SSH. Over the years I have seen and heard many ITPros struggles to figure out a way to deploy and maintain a VPN infrastructure that would allow them to access the servers in their remote environments easily and cheaply without having to mess around with routing and remote access roles or port forwarding. And without having to manage VPN clients on their PC.Step-By-Step: Connect your AWS and Azure environments with a VPN tunnel - Updated
Hello Folks, Three years ago, I was working with a customer that wanted to connect their VPC on AWS to their virtual network in Azure so they could move data around and migrate some workloads. Lately I’ve been receiving some messages from folks all over the place (some internal and some external to Microsoft) about issues in setting up that type of connection between AWS and Azure. I figured, it’s three years old…. There is bound to be some components that’s changed so maybe I should take another look at it.VMSS, VMSS Flex, what are they? And what’s the differences?
Hello folks, I’ve been looking at ways to scale regular VM up and down without having to create a full VM template used by the existing VM Scale Set. And I wanted a way that did not force me to choose between Availability and Scalability. I found my saving grace with Virtual Machine Scale set with flexible orchestration (VMSS Flex for short)Building a Policy to deploy the new Azure monitor Agent.
Hello folks, Following my recording with Shayoni Seth (Senior Program Manager on the Azure Monitor Agent team) regarding the use and deployment of the upcoming Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) currently in preview. We established that there are 2 key parts of the new agent: The Data Collection Rule The Agent deployment. So, if you are testing this new Azure Monitor Agent and you want to avoid having to deploy the agent to each new VM individually in the portal, you can create an Azure Policy. let's see what's involved.
