PowerShell 6 was in GA last January and many of us has already started working with it and the below news was really big leap for the PowerShell lovers. And the good news is that PowerShell 6.0 is also supported in Linux. For the one who have missed the release of the PowerShell 6 can
MS has released three beta exams for the MS Azure on July 16th. You can try them if you have time. They are listed as follows: AZ-100: Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Deployment (beta) AZ-101: Microsoft Azure Integration and Security (beta) AZ-102: Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Transition (beta)
I think many of you have seen the power of Azure File Sync, I thought to write an article on Azure File Sync for many days but unable to work on it due to various other assignments. Also we are long waiting for some of the changes which were needed for AFS and recently added
Picture Credit: Royalty Free Pictures from Pexeles.com The Azure Resource Manager model has come up with the option to upgrade to VM Backup Stack V2. There are many salient features of the VM Backup Stack V2 , the main price point I believe is the ability to take the snapshot backup of the disks up
Recently I have been asked by few people about the Azure VM charges. Let’s see how Azure Bill for the VM. Please note that when a new VM spin-up Azure starts charging for the following meters. Compute hours IP Address hours (if the Public IP is static) Data Transfer Out (it’s about the data get
Azure Platform guys are again in dilemma with the new release of the Standard SSD Disks. This new disk offering combines the elements of Premium SSD Disks and Standard HDD Disks to form a cost-effective solution. They need to change their storage plans again in the regions where it will be currently supported or soon
Recently I got a chance to work on the Azure Backup of the SQL Server VM’s. In this post, I am going to share my experience with the Azure Backup of SQL Server VM’s. In Part II of this post, I will share my experience with Recovery of the Backup databases. Please note that this
As many of you know that Azure ExpressRoute let us to extend our on-premises infrastructure to Azure Cloud over a private dedicated connection. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft Azure Network. If you are from the Azure pre sales background or an Azure Architect like myself, you must be aware that in most
It’s not very easy to delete Azure Recovery Services Vault because it’s generally contain multiple objects in it. If you don’t delete the recovery services vault which is not in use in a timely manner it may incur additional Azure Bills which you may not anticipated. Today I will show how you can easily delete
Sometimes if you are not using a Azure VM there is a quite possibility that you will forget the password of the VM, there is a way to reset the password for the Azure ARM based VM’s. You can reset the password from the Azure Portal as you can see below. Go to the reset
Today I have noticed that a new button for the directory and subscription filter added in the Azure Portal. It was the need of the hour otherwise browsing through multiple subscription was becoming pain for the MS Admins. Kudos to the design team for considering the feedback from the community. Here is the screen shot.
Dear friends in my last two posts (Part I and Part II ), I have shown you how to install Azure Analysis Services and today I will show you the step by step installation of the On-Premises Gateway for the Azure Analysis Services. To start with first you need to download the setup of the
In my last post I have shown you how to create and configure the Analysis services in Azure. Today I will show you how to connect to the Analysis Services from Visual Studio SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools). In my lab environment the initial Architecture was as follows. Fig: Azure Analysis Service Initial Architecture. The
This post I have targeted to the BI developers and system admins who are interested to configure and work with the SQL Server Analysis Services in Azure (Called Analysis Services in Azure) What is SQL Server Analysis Services? SQL Analysis Service is the PaaS instance of SQL Server Analysis Services. It’s an analytical data engine
Dear friends, ensuring your application workloads and data are secure is essential, but it is not enough. Monitoring play an important role for any infrastructure. For IaaS workloads, Azure Monitoring play a very important role and this require ‘s almost similar effort what you need to monitor your on premises infrastructure. We need continuous monitoring
