Vinchin Backup and Recovery review
For a customer project, I was looking for backup software with support for XenServer. Unfortunately, during my search, I discovered that not many vendors support hypervisors other than VMware and Microsoft. Nevertheless, I found a good solution and will discuss it briefly in this blog. Vinchin Backup & Recovery isRead More →
How to use your tablet as an external whiteboard for Microsoft Teams
A picture says more than a thousand words, it is often said. That’s why I usually try to draw things during presentations and meetings. Nowadays, many laptops with a touch screen (think of the Microsoft surfaces) allow you to draw perfectly. However, my laptops sit in a docking station withRead More →
WHAT’S NEW IN BDRSuite 5.3
Vembu recently released a new version of their BDRSuite, version 5.3. The major features in v5.3 release are below: File Server & Endpoints backup integrated into BDRSuite You can now add Windows and Linux (file) servers to the Data Source and configure file & folder level backup from the BDRSuiteRead More →
Resize the VM disk size of an Azure Linux CentOS 7 VM
In this simple blog post, I’m going to explain how easy it is to expand/resize your CentOS Linux VM disk. By default, an Azure Linux VM comes with a 30 GB boot disk. In this step, we’re going to expand this disk to 64 GB. Step 1 Shut down yourRead More →
Working from home, tips and tricks.
Hi! In this blog post, I want to share some tips I’ve learned in the last months working from home. Do you have some great tips, please use the comment section to share them! Technology Technology is what makes working from home possible in the first place. It’s time toRead More →
Azure updates dec 15th 2020 (Unified Connection Monitor, ARM support Azure File Share and Azure Monitor support for WVD)
I recently published another Azure update Blog post on ShareGate. Link here. In this post I talked about : Unified Connection Monitor in Network Watcher Azure Resource Manager template for Azure file share support Azure Monitor support for Windows Virtual DesktopRead More →
Azure updates dec 1st 2020 (Shared Image Gallery, Azure Monitor for VM Guest Health and Firewall Premium)
I recently started blogging for ShareGate : Every 2 weeks there will be an update with (my selection of) the latest Azure updates. In my first post I talked about : Azure Shared Image Gallery Azure Monitor for VM Guest Health Azure Firewall Premium Link In this blog posts I’llRead More →
This is why it’s important to deploy resources in datacenter region(s) nearby…
A couple of days ago I noticed someone was using the default datacenter region (West US) to deploy resources to instead of their local (West Europe) datacenter. I’ve asked that person for his reason. His response was that he didn’t thought that it made a significant difference…. To demonstrate theRead More →
How to leave Azure subscription(s) associated to your Azure account
When you have access to multiple Azure subscriptions from (former) customers for example, you may want to remove them when you don’t need access any more. In this blogpost I describe how to get rid of them without contacting their administrators. It is possible to self-leave an Azure AD tenant.Read More →
How to Publish an App Service using Azure Application Gateway
In this post, I’m going to explain how to publish an App service using the Application Gateway. An Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Core Components of the Azure Application Gateway This “How to” shows you howRead More →