Just a guy – talking about technology … in an uncomplicated way.
I want to introduce you to Neil Gat – he’s a Program Manager on my team and he’s gotten quite good at is writing multi-VM ARM Templates. We were talking a while back about Azure Resource Manager templates and how you can use our QuickStart Template Gallery as a “hacking ground” to learn about the format and…
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 looked up from a customer presentation earlier today and saw a sea of “fruit” beacon lights staring at me from the audience. In the past I would have been concerned as I would have had to qualify what works and what doesn’t work with “technology X” or “Service Y” on a non Microsoft platform….
Yup – I was wondering why I had disk space issues – turns out I had the same problem I documented in this post, once I upgraded my system from Windows 8.1 Update to Windows 10 Technical Preview (a.k.a. Windows 10). I had Space Issues and Permissions Issues! Let’s revisit that post for the quick…
October 1st, 2014 marks the release of the “IT Pro” Focused version of Windows 10 from the client perspective. I am sure you have seen all the tweets / social media / blog posts / press releases all over the place. As a “Server Hugger”, I’m more interested in the Windows Server Technical Preview –…
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…
As you may or may not know – I am a Server Hugger – heck I even have a pin to prove it. But – as I like to take on challenges, I thought I would transition my expertise out of on-premise server architecture and infrastructure and walk on the wild side for a while….
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….
I’ve been rebuilding some of my lab and demo machines running WS2012 R2 preview with RTM bits. As they are Cluster-In-A-Box systems, they have shared disk between them and an already configured Storage Pool. Once I did a clean install one node of the CiB with Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM bits – it sees…