Category: Azure

Posted on May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 Azure Azure Compute Azure Updates Azure VMs Cloud Microsoft Cloud News Virtual Machine

Azure Spot Virtual Machines

Today Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Spot VMs (see here the announcement). This is one of the features that I have been waiting...

Posted on March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 Azure Azure VMs Best Practices Microsoft Cloud Tutorial Virtual Machine Windows Server Windows Server 2016

Error 0x800F081F when adding features on Windows Server 2016 on Azure Virtual Machine

At one of my costumers, I needed to add the SMBv1 feature to enable communication with a legacy File Server running on Windows Server 2003....

Posted on October 16, 2019October 16, 2019 Azure Azure VMs Hybrid Cloud Subscriptions Tools Tutorial Virtual Machine Windows Server

How to Connect Windows Admin Center with Azure

When I start a project with a new costumer and the conversation ends how to manage your workloads either On-Premises or on Azure, I always...

Posted on October 4, 2019May 11, 2020 Azure Backups Best Practices Cloud

File Level restore on an Azure VM with encrypted disks

At one of my costumers, we were review the backup strategy for Azure VMs. We choose to use the Azure Backup Service to accomplish that....

Posted on July 7, 2019February 11, 2020 Azure Azure Backup Azure VMs Backups Best Practices

File level restore on an encrypted Azure virtual machine

At the costumer site, I was delivering an Azure Workshop, on the topic of Azure Backup, comes the following questions: On a VM that have...

Posted on June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 ARM Templates Azure Azure Portal Best Practices Cloud Cloud Services Disaster Recovery

Best practices to architect Resource Groups in Azure

On a workshop at the client, we were talking about what are the best practices to design an architecture for Resource Groups (RG) in Azure....

Posted on June 11, 2019February 11, 2020 Azure Azure Backup Azure Portal Azure VMs Backups Docker Linux Virtual Machine

Error code UserErrorFsFreezeFailed on Azure Backup

Another day a costumer of mine, call me saying the backups that we enabled previously was troughing the following error: Error Code UserErrorFsFreezeFailed Error Message...

Posted on May 27, 2019May 27, 2019 Azure Azure Compute Azure VMs Tutorial

How to remove a HostPool from the Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure

After a few times deploying a Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) infrastructure on Azure, I always found that sometimes you have the necessity to reset your...

Posted on April 11, 2019February 11, 2020 Azure Azure Backup Azure Compute Azure Portal Azure VMs Backups Virtual Machine

Error on adding virtual machines to Azure Backup

At one of my costumer Azure Subscription, I was adding a new virtual machine to the existing Azure Recovery Vault previously configured, when I run...

Posted on March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 Azure Azure Site Recovery Cloud Disaster Recovery Moving to Azure Series Virtual Machine Windows Server

Moving to Azure Series – Error 78007 on deploying ASR agent

On this series, I want to explore all the situations that you might encounter when you are moving your workloads to the cloud, specially to...