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 →
It’s possible again to schedule onsite exams #COVID19
Due to Covid 19 we were unable to take & schedule (Microsoft) exams at your local test centre. Last week I called a local test center if it’s possible again to schedule exams again. They responded that it was possible again, keeping the 1.5 meter distance and other rules inRead More →
How to deploy (additional) server roles on your IaaS Azure VM
Recently I needed an easy function to add additional servers roles on several IaaS virtual machines on a customer platform. This is how I accomplished this. For this example I’m going to install the IIS server role, it works for other roles ofcourse. I’ve created an simple powershell script withRead More →
Using Azure Keyvault secrets with ARM templates
In my previous blog post I described how to deploy an VM using DevOps, fast and simple. But ofcourse you don’t want to store secrets in parameters files! Open your parameter file and search for adminPassword. It should look something like: “adminPassword”: { “value”: “This1sReallyReallyNotMyP@ssw0rd!” }, Now replace it withRead More →
Deploying resources to Azure using Azure DevOps
Recently someone asked me how to deploy an Azure service using Azure DevOps. In this Blog Post a simple howto how to deploy a virtual machine on Azure using DevOps. Step 1 Create an ARM template For this first step create an IaaS VM with all the settings you need.Read More →