I’ll be presenting at the virtual Collab365 Global Conference 2017 that’s streaming online November 1st – 2nd. My session specifically will be at 9:00pm EST on November 1st. Join me and 120 other speakers from around the world who will be bringing you the very latest content around SharePoint, Office 365, Flow, PowerApps, Azure, OneDrive for Business and of course … Read More
Finally, a useful bot! Meet AzureBot in Microsoft Teams!
I’ve said it before, I haven’t been a huge fan of bots. I don’t have anything against them, I’ve just never found any of them to be particularly useful. There hasn’t been one that’s saved me a lot of time or helped me in my day-to-day activities. This could be due in part to my company being small, just a … Read More
Speaking at the Global Azure Bootcamp in Jacksonville
This coming Saturday, April 22 I’ll be join a few other speakers in Jacksonville, FL and hundreds of speakers around the globe to take part in the 2017 Global Azure Bootcamp. I’ll be speaking on using ARM to provisioning Azure Virtual Machines. So, if you want to come get introduced to creating ARM templates for Azure VMs, come join me … Read More
A Quick test of Accelerated Networking in Azure
Intro Recently, Microsoft announced Accelerated Networking in Azure. At a high level, they took FPGAs in the Azure Data Center, connected them to the Azure IaaS hosts over PCIe and use that for networking as opposed to the standard way of networking using Hyper-V. You can view a diagram and an article from Microsoft on how it all works here … Read More
Backup your QNAP Device to Azure
Today I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, the Microsoft Cloud Show (http://www.microsoftcloudshow.com/) and was reminded about Azure Cool Storage, something I read about when it was first announced a couple weeks ago, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-cool-storage/ but hadn’t a chance to try out yet. I’ve been running my QNAP backups to hot storage for a few months now, but just … Read More
Adding DNS to Azure VMs created using Azure Resource Management
If you’ve been using IaaS, specifically Azure VMs, you’ll know that there are two different types of VMs you can have. Those running as “classic” or ASM and those running on the newer ARM. When you create VMs in classic mode you have the option to assign a DNS name to it. That way when you connect to the VM, … Read More
Azure Premium Storage by the Numbers
I’ve recently been doing a lot of work around Azure Premium Storage and the configuration options across various virtual machines. I did a similar post to this one where I talked about standard storage. You can find that post here. Since that post I’ve had access to premium storage and Microsoft has released both the DS and GS series virtual … Read More
My Interview on the Microsoft Cloud Show: Azure Premium Storage – Show Notes
I recently had the privilege of being on the Microsoft Cloud Show where I was interviewed by the hosts, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson, about Azure Premium Storage. During the interview I referenced several articles and links. Here are a list of all the relevant links from that interview (and a few others on the topic you may find interesting): … Read More
Raspberry PI, Node.js and an LED – A Power Light for my Azure Virtual Machine
I’ve had this project on my list to try for a while. I wanted to turn an LED on/off on a breadboard sitting on my desk when I turned on/off a virtual machine in Azure. Before I got into all the details, here is a video showing it in action. This is at a speed of x2 and I cut … Read More
Azure CLI for Creating Certificates to use with Azure Compute ASM
Recently I’ve been playing around a with Node.js a Raspberry Pi and Azure (more on that in the next blog post). Since all my VMs have been around a while, they are in ASM mode and not ARM mode, so I was using azure-asm-compute module for Node.js. However, this module uses certificates to authenticate you to the service, and not … Read More
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