September 23, 2024 Azure Update Manager – Pre and Post Maintenance Events to Start/Stop Virtual Machines This document provides a comprehensive guide on creating pre and post maintenance events using Azure Functions in conjunction with Azure Update Manager. Since Azure…
September 6, 2024 Change Tracking and Inventory for Azure Virtual Machines and ARC Virtual Machines Introduction: In today’s fast-paced digital world, keeping track of changes and maintaining an accurate inventory of your virtual machines is crucial for efficient management…
August 22, 2024 Connect to On-Premises machines using Azure ARC Once a machine is onboarded to Azure ARC it opens the door to many new features. One feature is to remotely connect to the…
March 22, 2024 Azure Update Manager – Patching .NET Core .NET Core did not follow the same patching strategies that the original .NET Framework did. It was opting to use Intune, WSUS or SCCM…
January 23, 2024 How to use AzCopy with Azure Cli for authentication A guide to use AZ CLI for authentication for AzCopy that replaces the soon-to-be deprecated AzCopy login feature. AzCopy is a command-line tool that…
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…
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…