Restart a specific VM

The Issue A customer recently had the need to only allow specific Server Owners to Start\Restart\Deallocate specific Virtual Machines. The Investigation I actually found this article that explains how to create this for an assignment to an entire subscription. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/step-by-step-enabling-custom-role-based-access-control-in-azure/ba-p/363668 You use the mentioned JSON File, { "Name": "Restart Virtual Machines", "IsCustom": true, "Description": "Restart … Continue reading Azure – Assign A Custom Role to Allow Specific Users to Stop/Start/Restart a specific VM →

Azure – Point to Site Transit Traffic over Connected VNETs Issue

The Issue Recently one of my customers experienced an issue where we wanted to achieve the below. The reason was we wanted machines out on the internet to communicate with Active Directory Servers by using the Azure VPN Client. The Investigation So there are two ways to achieve a "Connection" between Virtual Networks. You can … Continue reading Azure – Point to Site Transit Traffic over Connected VNETs Issue →

SAP DR on Azure Part 3

This document would like to be a simple guide to give DR on Azure of a SAP environment. Due to the nature and importance of the workload described, this guide is intended as a high level reference that must be integrated with more specific documentation if interested in realize SAP DR solution on Azure.

SAP DR on Azure Part 2

Abstract This document would like to be a simple guide to give DR on Azure of a SAP environment. Due to the nature and importance of the workload described, this guide is intended as a high level reference that must be integrated with more specific documentation if interested in realize SAP DR solution on Azure. … Continue reading SAP DR on Azure Part 2 →

SAP DR on Azure – Introduction

Privatizing your Azure App

A Traditional Approach Traditionally an azure app service has been privatized by linking it with an Isolated app service plan which deploys an App service Environment thereby integrating with an Azure Vnet. This ensures that your app is seating privately in an Azure Vnet, thus all inbound and outbound calls to the app will be … Continue reading Privatizing your Azure App →

Getting Started with Terraform on Azure DevOps

Introduction As with most things, there are a number of ways to utilize Azure DevOps to orchestrate your management of Azure Resources through terraform. This post will walk through a way that I have found to be successful and relatively easy to maintain. It will not however describe the many benefits of using an Infrastructure … Continue reading Getting Started with Terraform on Azure DevOps →

Field Notes: Access denied when removing Active Directory integrated DNS Zones

With Windows Server 2008 R2 reaching end of life in January 2020, many organizations have been migrating their workloads to Windows Server 2016 or newer. This period is also an opportunity for some to decommission and consolidate domains to reduce complexities where possible. I posted about an upgrade blocker when the File Replication Service is … Continue reading Field Notes: Access denied when removing Active Directory integrated DNS Zones →

Deploying Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure – Step by Step

If you haven't heard about Windows Virtual Desktop, you can think about it as a SaaS (Software as a Service) for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) on Azure.

In this post, we'll walk through the steps required to establish Windows Virtual Desktop on your Azure tenant.

Analyzing Azure EA Cost Using Power BI – Part 3 Advanced Calculations

Analyzing the usage and tuning resources is a key responsibility in Cloud Management. We need to understand where we spent , what are the trends and where we can tune our spending. When it comes to analyzing Azure Cost Microsoft offers different tool set with different capabilities; Cloudyn New Azure Cost Management Azure Consumption … Continue reading Analyzing Azure EA Cost Using Power BI – Part 3 Advanced Calculations →