Cloud Solution Architect
How Operational Management Suite keeps Customers sticky on Azure - (Site Recovery & Automation)
In my last post, I spent some time providing an overview of Operational Management Suite (OMS) and...
Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 03/16/2016
How Operational Management Suite keeps Customers sticky on Azure - (Backup)
Over my first year working at Microsoft, it has been very clear that we are doing everything that we...
Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 03/07/2016
Provisioning a Cloudera Hadoop cluster on Azure
This post covers how to provision a Cloudera-certified Hadoop IaaS cluster on Azure, for Production,...
Author: Anagha Khanolkar Date: 03/06/2016
Retrieving Resource Metrics and Creating Alert Rules via Azure PowerShell
UPDATE: This post has been updated to use the new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) cmdlets released in...
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 02/26/2016
Troubleshooting Azure Resource Manager (ARM) PowerShell issues
My colleague Neil just did a great article on how to interact with the REST APIs directly. When...
Author: Jason Vallery Date: 02/24/2016
Retrieving Resource Metrics via the Azure Insights API
There are many options for configuring monitoring and alerting for Azure resources. The Azure portal...
Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 02/23/2016
Using the Azure Resource Manager REST API
Microsoft Azure was released into public preview in 2008. A year later, the Azure Service Management...
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 02/20/2016
Monitoring and Alerting in Azure
The following features are provided to monitor Azure resources: Azure Status – portal showing status...
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 02/20/2016
Updating the Azure VM Encryption Certs
This is an update to a previous blog post regarding BitLocker encryption of your Azure VMs using...
Author: doodlemania Date: 02/11/2016
Don’t disable the IP Helper Windows service in your Windows VM’s running in Azure
I ran into a problem with a customer while we were trying to deploy Windows VM’s in Azure. We had...
Author: Pete Rodriguez Date: 02/09/2016
Deploy a WordPress Azure Web App with an Alternative MySQL Database
I was recently presented with an interesting question about Azure Web Apps, WordPress, and MySQL....
Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 12/03/2015
Using Azure Policy to Deny or Audit Management Operations
The deep integration between Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Azure Active Directory (AAD) lights up...
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 10/25/2015
Service Principal Authn/Authz for Azure PowerShell
Azure supports two control planes for managing Azure services: Azure Service Management (ASM) and...
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 10/24/2015
Deploying a SaaS Application in Azure (Data Tier)
First of all, let me apologize for taking so long to get this second posting out there. I ran into...
Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 09/08/2015
HOWTO: Deploy Ubuntu Linux VM with SSH Key using Power Shell and Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
With the release of Azure Resource Manager and its corresponding new set of REST services, it has...
Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 08/06/2015
Azure High Availability
When designing application deployments for the cloud one of the most common issues my customers face...
Author: Jason Vallery Date: 08/05/2015
Deploying a SaaS Application in Azure (Networking)
If there is one thing that is absolutely true about deploying an application within “The...
Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 06/26/2015
Lock Down Your Azure Resources
A common ask when working with Azure is “how do I protect my critical resources?” Often this ask is...
Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 06/18/2015
Compressing your block blobs before storing them
It is true that Azure Block Blob storage is dirt cheap. Why pay for storage though if you don't have...
Author: Jason Vallery Date: 05/21/2015
Using Application Insights to instrument your worker roles
Today there isn't a simple way to integrate the power of Application Insights into your worker role...
Author: Jason Vallery Date: 05/21/2015
Using a Service Principal for Azure PowerShell Authentication
The Azure PowerShell cmdlets support two authentication techniques: AAD and self-signed X.509...
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 05/14/2015
Migrating to "The Cloud".......so Many Possibilities (IaaS)
Although we as Cloud Solution Architects (CSA) are required to be very technically knowledgeable,...
Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 05/12/2015
Creating Azure VMs with ARM PowerShell cmdlets
The Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is a new desired-state deployment manager for application resources...
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 05/05/2015
Run IOMeter on an Azure Linux VM with Azure Premium Storage
I had to do some IO testing for a customer with Azure Premium Storage. I was able to get some...
Author: Pete Rodriguez Date: 05/04/2015
Remote Desktop to your Linux Azure Virtual Machine
If you’ve ever wished you could get a GUI experience with your Azure Linux VM’s, here’s how you can...
Author: Pete Rodriguez Date: 05/02/2015
Using an Azure API App Service with a SharePoint Designer Workflow
Microsoft recently announced the Azure App Service...
Author: Pete Rodriguez Date: 04/28/2015
Finding the most recent Windows Server 2012 R2 template with PowerShell
I'm often creating new VM instances with PowerShell. I always like to use the most recently...
Author: Jason Vallery Date: 04/01/2015
RBAC and the Azure Resource Manager
The Azure Service Management REST API (ASM) provides the definitive way to manage Azure resources....
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 03/17/2015
Audit Logs for Azure Events
A common request when working with Microsoft Azure is, "How can I view audit logs to determine who...
Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 03/10/2015
Authenticating Azure Service Management API with Azure AD User Credentials
There are two primary ways to authenticate against the Azure Service Management API: Azure Active...
Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 03/01/2015
Determine the RDP User for Web/Worker Role
It is widely known that it is possible to add Remote Desktop (RDP) to a Cloud Service (web/worker...
Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 02/04/2015
Using AAD Credentials with Azure PowerShell Cmdlets
The Azure Service Management REST API (ASM) provides an extensive set of RESTful operations that can...
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 02/02/2015
Azure Diagnostics for Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Diagnostics has been provided for Azure Cloud Services since they went GA in 2010. This...
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 01/26/2015
Permissions in Azure DocumentDB
Azure DocumentDB is a fully managed document database in the Microsoft Azure platform. I provided an...
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 12/09/2014
Intro to Azure DocumentDB
In the enterprise-scale era, data systems were dominated by the relational database and the focus...
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 12/07/2014
Loading static resources from Azure blob storage in cloud services roles
When you upload and deploy a cloud services package to Azure the actual .cspkg file gets copied...
Author: Jason Vallery Date: 12/03/2014
VIPs, DIPs and PIPs in Microsoft Azure
A virtual machine (VM) deployed into Microsoft Azure is associated with several types of IP address....
Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 11/08/2014