Leveraging the Power of the Cloud
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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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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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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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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I performed a migration of my Windows 2012 R2 Amazon AWS EC2 instance to Azure the other day using Azure Site Recovery. This is how I did it…
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As easy as Microsoft makes it to deploy virtual machines into Azure, it can be just as easy to overlook an important piece of infrastructure management: monitoring. In this brief write-up, I’m going to explain how I setup basic Azure monitoring of virtual machines that I deployed to my lab environment.
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I figured I’d write up the process I followed to deploy a few virtual networks in Azure and connect them with a VPN.
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So my latest endeavor in the Azure space is the build out of an HA website that talks to a SQL backend that must also be highly available. Additionally, access to the website had to be limited to AD-authenticated users only.
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Simply put, Azure is a multi-regional cloud computing platform from Microsoft. Split across 30+ worldwide datacenters, the Azure platform provides
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