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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…
September 22, 2023 Azure ARC Agent Allow Lists for Azure Update Manager 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…