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....
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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....
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...
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....
Monitoring Azure File Sync
After implementing Azure File Sync, you wonder, how I can monitor what I just implemented? My first thought was to investigate in the Azure Resource...
Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) Series #1 – The beginning!
From the past months, I’ve been upgrading all my scripts that I have been using along the years to a platform that allows me to...
Azure Policy – Auditing public blob storage
In a Governance project, one of the most common policy to implement is the one that you don’t allow any blob storage to be public....
Azure Policy – Allowing only define VM sizes
Azure Policy is the big step to start to have some sort of governance on your Azure environment. It’s really easy to implement, efficient and...
Choosing the type of Azure Blob storage for SQL Backups
During the storage design on the Azure Foundation workshop that I usually deliver on a beginning of a new Azure project, come the topic and...
Instant VM Recovery using Azure Backup
We all know that Azure is grow and evolving in a very fast pace. On a project that I’m working right now, I had the...