Microsoft IT's Cloud Management Services Playbook

Monitoring Runbooks / Azure Automation + Log Analytics

A while ago, I wrote a couple of posts showing how we are collecting and storing Azure Automation...

Date: 08/05/2016

SQL Server Database migration to Azure SQL DB – using SSMS. Comparison of SSMS, SSDT, SAMW, SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Advisor.

If you are planning to migrate an on-prem SQL Server to Azure, there are a few key considerations:...

Date: 08/02/2016

WinRM | It's kind of a like / hate thing...

Sure, I like WinRM. It enables remote management of Windows over HTTP and it is at the core of...

Date: 06/16/2016

Monitoring a Busy Azure Automation Infrastructure (Part 2)

Keeping Operations and our customers happy with telemetry OK, so as we established in part one of...

Date: 06/06/2016

Monitoring a Busy Azure Automation Infrastructure (Part 1)

*Update - Here is a better, supported way to monitor Automation... Since this blog was written,...

Date: 06/06/2016

Already using Azure and curious which services are enabled in Resource Manager mode

I work with many IT teams and often get get questions from external customers at EBC on what is ARM,...

Date: 04/26/2016