Three things to remember when migrating servers to Azure
Over the last few years, I have spoken to customers who are either looking to expand their datacenter into Azure or move their workloads into Azure instead of hosting them on prem. Often the workloads they are looking to host in Azure are virtual machines (VMs) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) VMs. Lifting and Shifting workloads into Azure is often the best way forward for some workloads, however there are some things that you need to think about before going down that road and make sure it really is the best fit for your organization and workload.How does the PXE boot process work?
Within the IT department imaging devices for end users is something that we’ve probably all had to do at some point, either manually or with an automation product such as Windows Deployment Services (WDS), Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) or System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM). There are a lot of moving parts to imaging devices using one of the tools mentioned above, and there can be a lot of pain points in the process. One of the pain points is often how to get the device to boot into the PXE environment, in this article we explore how that process works and understand why it can be a pain point.Working with Azure Service Principal Accounts
When working within Azure you want to take advantage of automating the tasks you can, in order to do that you need to have a method of authenticating to your Azure subscription. In this article I take you through the concept of Service Principals and the basics of creating them and using them.
