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Dr. Script or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Powershell
Powershell has been with us now since late 2006 but my experience is that widespread understanding and use of it is still very restricted within the .Net developer community. If you’re a Windows...
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Clean Backups Using Windows Server Backup and EBS Snapshots
One of the powerful features of AWS is the ability to snapshot any EBS volume you have operating. The challenge when utilising Windows 2008 R2 is that NTFS doesn’t support point-in-time snapshotting...
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SharePoint Online 2013 ALM Practices
SharePoint has always been a bit a challenge when it comes to structured ALM and developer practices which is something Microsoft partially addressed with the release of SharePoint and Visual Studio...
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Secure Remote Management Studio access to SQL Server on Azure IaaS
If you have ever provisioned a SQL Server instance running on Azure IaaS and not used a VPN solution you will find that by default you are unable to connect to it from a local Management Studio...
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Feature Request: Generate PowerShell Scriptlets From the Azure Management Portal
I was at a customer the other day wrapping a successful project delivered on Windows Azure when one the customer’s team suggested a great idea – why not generate PowerShell scriptlets from actions...
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How to add a Site-to-Site VPN to an Azure Virtual Network after setup.
I have recently been working on a couple of engagements that involve utilising the site-to-site connectivity features of Windows Azure Virtual Networks. On one engagement we went through the setup of...
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Microsoft Azure: 2014 Year in Review
What a massive year it’s been for Microsoft’s Azure public cloud platform. Running the Azure Sydney User Group this year has been great fun and seeing the growing local interest has been fantastic. The...
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Microsoft Ignite 2015 Event Review
Frank Sinatra sang “My Kind of Town (Chicago is)” and Ol’ Blue Eyes certainly knew a great town when he saw one! The first ever Microsoft Ignite was held just this past week in Chicago at the McCormick...
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Setting Instance Level Public IPs on Azure VMs
Since October 2014 it has been possible to add a public IP address to a virtual machine in Azure so that it can be directly connected to by clients on the internet. This bypasses the load balancing in...
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Easy Debugging of PowerShell DSC for Azure Virtual Machines
I’ve been doing a lot of PowerShell DSC on Azure VMs recently, so I thought I’d share my experience in debugging custom DSC Modules when working in Azure. My blog entry is over on the Kloud blog so...
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Using Active Directory Security Groups to Grant Permissions to Azure Resources
Kloud Blog The introduction of the Azure Resource Manager platform in Azure continues to expose new possibilities for managing your deployed resources. One scenario that you may not be aware of is the...
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Creating Azure AD B2C Service Principals with PowerShell
I’ve been lucky enough over the last few months to be working on some cool consumer-facing solutions with one of my customers. A big part of the work we’ve been doing in building Minimum Viable Product...
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If you run in an environment where you need to track changes to Tags on Resource Groups in Azure then you may find this PowerShell snippet useful as code to drop into a Runbook. The snippet will...
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