In this blogpost I shall describe how you add an extra data disk to your Linux VM running on Azure. Step 1 Add a new disk to your Linux VM using the Azure Portal Choose Add data disk to add an extra data disk and choose create data disk. ForRead More →
Recently I deployed some VMs on Azure. There was a small change to the naming convention afterwards so I wanted to rename the created VMs. This is how you can do this After a couple of minutes (depending on the size of the VM) the newly created server with theRead More →
This is how you can encrypt your Azure virtual machine disks : az vm encryption enable –resource-group “ResourceGroupOfVM” –name “VMName” –disk-encryption-keyvault “/KeyVaultResourceIDHere” –volume-type All You can find your keyvault Resource ID here : The reason that I used the Resource id instead of the keyvault name is that nowRead More →
In this blogpost I’m going to explain how you can still be able to send SMTP from your IaaS server running on Azure. As you might already know since Nov 15th of 2017 it’s no longer always possible to send SMTP on port 25 (I dig into that later). InRead More →
Use this script to update all your Azure Powershell Modules to their latest versions.Read More →
It’s very easy to backup all your data on your QNAP NAS to the public Cloud from Azure. In this blogpost I’m describing all the necessary steps. Create A Storage account First make sure you have an active Azure account with a subscription. You can easily sign up for aRead More →
Recently I build a XenApp environment on Azure for demo purposes. I used –> this <– website helping me calculating the costs. This website (running on Azure :-)) makes it easy to calculate the costs of your XenApp/XenDesktop environment on Azure. You can provide the locations, working Hours, Workloads and numberRead More →
I’m moving more and more of my whitebox environment towards Azure. But some parts are still running in my home environment. So I would like to create a Site-to-site VPN between my office @home and Azure. Because an Express Route would be slightly overkill I decided to build an SiteRead More →
A couple of days while I was driving to the beach I noticed a problem with one of my machines running on Azure. Ofcourse I didn’t bring my laptop, so I first tried the Azure App in real life. I was very pleased. You can’t always predict what will happenRead More →
In my Azure test environment I’m running several Windows and Linux servers. In this blog post I describe an easy and effective way to patch them. It only takes you a minute of configuring! On a freshly installed Windows Server 2016 without patching there were 4 available updates (Azure template)Read More →