Just a guy – talking about technology … in an uncomplicated way.
I find I need to run various Linux distros on my work machine for my new job on the Azure Compute team. While I still run Windows 10 as my primary OS (sorry – app compat reasons) – I have installed Hyper-V Client so I can at least switch out to whatever distro I need…
I remember when I had to setup my first DR plan for a datacenter failover of critical systems from one datacenter to our backup datacenter. It was a nightmare of logistical planning and near duplicate hardware / infrastructure required to have the bare minimum systems in place for some level of business continuity. It took…
Most of us who work in IT generally feel pretty good about the physical and logical security of our data and systems when it resides on-premises. If you can see and touch the systems, it gives you an added sense of security – especially when you have keycards, biometrics or sometimes just a lock on the…
A while back I shot a quick video with Madhan Arumugam and Ross Gardler talking about what this containerization technology is all about. Looking for information to understand the concepts and options yourself? Have a look at this High Level explanation / whiteboarding of container technologies and their advantages over individual processes and traditional IaaS…
When I talk with Customers about Microsoft Azure, I can usually gauge pretty quickly if they are ready to dive or not quite ready yet. Lets face it, if you are a die hard IT Pro who has been working On-Premises for the bulk of your career, starting to use “The Cloud” can be a little unnerving. That’s one of…
Sometime it’s the fundamentals that get missed when you are in FireDrill mode for too long and need to get things done. Or maybe you inherited a fileserver where there are WAY too many admins and you are troubleshooting access issues. Take a moment, step back and revisit the basics of Group strategies and how…
I am assuming you have used the online graphical portal a bit and now you want to be more productive and start some rudimentary automation. We don’t expect you do use the portal for everything. For an IT Pro – the logical choice is to use PowerShell and work like an admin from your workstation….
(NOTE 3/11/14: clarification on billing with “spending limits feature” has been added. See italicized text in bullet points for additions) No seriously – where do I get it? Do I have to get some sales guy to come and sell it to me? Do I contact a software reseller to sell me a copy? Do…
One of the best parts of my job is talking with IT Professionals / SysAdmins / Students from all over. It doesn’t matter if they are independent IT consultants, staffers / lifers at “company x” or someone just getting started in the IT field – they all at some point ask me about “spinning up…
I’ve been updating my various environments from Windows Server 2012 RTM or Preview releases (build 9431) of Windows Server 2012 R2 to the final bits. On some boxes I just use my scortched earth policy of leveling the partitions and starting from scratch – others I will do an install and use the same partition….