Moving a VM from Existing Subnet to a New Subnet
QUESTION: You have been asked to move a VM named Server01 to SubnetB from SubnetA in your Azure cloud service
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Choosing the Right Azure Connection Type
QUESTION: You are the admin at RedWidgetCo. A new employee was recently hired to work remotely. Your network is a
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How to Deploy a Content Delivery Network (CDN) on Azure
It has been a few days so I thought it would be a good idea to work through another Azure lab. This time around, I want to familiarize myself with Azure’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) functionality. The goal of this project is to deploy a CDN in Azure and confirm that my website content pulls from said CDN when visitors hit the website.
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Deploying Software via Custom Script Extensions in Azure
I started messing around with Custom Script Extensions today. After deploying a VM in Azure, I wanted to see if
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What is Azure Automation DSC?
Azure Automation Desired State Configuration (DSC) allows IT professionals to deploy servers across the enterprise with a consistent configuration. In addition, Azure Automation DSC allows for the automatic update of all servers to a consistent (or desired) state.
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Deploying an Auto-Scaling VM Scale Set with a Custom Disk Image
If I need to deploy a group of IIS virtual machines that not only run the same web app but also scale up and down as demand changes, I am going to want to deploy an auto-scaling Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) that is based on a custom disk image that contains my OS and fully configured web app.
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Managing VM Configurations with Azure Automation DSC
In this tutorial, I am going to walk you through the process of deploying Azure Automation Desired State Configuration and using it to ensure a consistent configuration of servers it is applied to.
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How to Create User-Defined Routes in Azure with PowerShell
In this article, I am going to explain how to take traffic that flows from SubnetA directly to SubnetB, and re-route that traffic, so it flows from SubnetA to our pretend firewall (FW1) and then out to SubnetB.
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Deploying Citrix XenApp in Microsoft Azure
So today, I finally got around to taking XenApp 7.13 for a test drive in Azure via the Citrix XenApp 7.13 Trial offering. Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly that I experienced while deploying this complete POC environment.
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How to Deploy a Virtual Machine in Azure with PowerShell
I’m going to explain to you in this article how to use PowerShell to deploy several Azure resources, including a Resource Group, a Storage Account, a Virtual Network, a Subnet, a Public IP address, a Network Interface, and a Virtual Machine.
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