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Jeff Pigott is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, specializing in Azure Infrastructure technologies including Azure Arc, Azure Update Manager, SQL DB, security, and storage. With over 29 years of experience in IT, development, and DevOps, Jeff has worked with a wide range of platforms, tools, and languages. Jeff is passionate about staying up-to-date with the latest Microsoft technologies and services, and holds multiple Azure certifications.
January 19, 2024

AzCopy with Azure Arc and Managed Identity

How to use AzCopy with Azure Arc to access Azure resources with Managed Identity authentication AzCopy is a command-line tool that allows you to…

December 5, 2023

HPC Pack 2019 Update 2 – High Availability Instructions

This document is created for highly available head nodes using SQL PaaS for the databases. The current documentation for this option starts in section…

November 17, 2023

Azure Site Recovery – Maintaining a Persistent MAC Address

Credit to April Edwards for part of this solution in the article. The scope for this solution is that the Azure virtual machine needs…

November 9, 2023

Azure Arc ESU Licensing Examples for Windows Server 2012

[Note:  With any document discussing licensing, it is always recommended to review the licensing scenarios with your sales specialist.] This document was created to…

November 9, 2023

Azure Arc Kubernetes – Access by RBAC roles for a user or groups

Use cluster connect to securely connect to Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters. – Azure Arc | Microsoft Learn When accessing an Arc enabled Kubernetes cluster…

September 27, 2023

Assigning Extended Service Updates (ESU) to an Azure Arc enabled Windows Server 2012 via PowerShell/REST

Assigning Extended Service Updates (ESU) to an Azure Arc enabled Windows Server 2012 To automate the Arc server with the ESU updates this may…

September 22, 2023

Azure Arc Agent Allow Lists

If you are needing to secure Azure Arc enabled servers, you may choose to block guest configuration and extensions. This sounds like a great…

September 19, 2023

Azure Arc – Windows Server – Network Testing

Microsoft has announced the ability to enroll Windows Server 2012 / R2 machines for Extended Security Updates (ESU) and pay for them as part…

December 21, 2022

Azure Cross Zonal Restore for Azure Virtual Machines

If your design requires the ability to restore virtual machines to a specific Azure Availability Zone, you will need the new feature that has…

July 28, 2022

Windows Sysprep for Azure Virtual Machines

Sysprep is a tool to capture the state of a Windows machine and reuse this as an image to create other Virtual Machines quickly…

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