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Deploying an Auto-Scaling VM Scale Set with a Custom Disk Image

April 3, 2017April 14, 2017 Thomas Mitchell

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

March 24, 2017April 3, 2017 Thomas Mitchell

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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Deploying Citrix XenApp in Microsoft Azure

March 15, 2017March 29, 2017 Thomas Mitchell

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

March 8, 2017March 29, 2017 Thomas Mitchell

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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Migrating an Amazon AWS EC2 Instance to Microsoft Azure

March 6, 2017April 14, 2017 Thomas Mitchell

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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Azure Monitoring: Basic Performance Monitoring of Azure VMs

February 26, 2017March 29, 2017 Thomas Mitchell

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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How to Connect Azure Virtual Networks via VPN

February 25, 2017March 29, 2017 Thomas Mitchell

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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Deploying a Highly Available Web App in Microsoft Azure

February 24, 2017March 29, 2017 Thomas Mitchell

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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What Exactly is Microsoft Azure?

February 3, 2017March 29, 2017 Thomas Mitchell

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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