One of most used Azure service is backup. Storage is very cheap in Azure and it gives us option of creating backup very far away from our on-prem environment. In this post I will cover basics on how to create MS SQL database backup to Azure Storage. Note that for using this option you need…
In this post I’ll talk about syncing Azure Active Directory with local Windows Server AD. Like most of my latest ports, we’ll do it in new portal where Azure AD feature is still in preview. So we start with connecting to server that we’ll use for synchronization. Note that it’s not recommended to use your DC…
In my last post I mentioned ‘Deployment scripts’ and after that I got few comments and e-mails about this subject. So I decided to make it subject of my next post. Template deployment is one of the benefits of ARM (Azure Resource Manager). ARM enables you to bind different resources into resource group and view…
In last post I wrote about creating new Azure SQL database. At the end of post, I mentioned that features available from SSMS when connected to Azure SQL are very poor when compared to full MS SQL Server. When we compare these two, we can see that in Azure SQL we are missing Server objects,…
Next few posts will be about one of my favorite subjects – SQL. When we talk about databases in Azure there is lot of options, depending on what you need. If you need more services that traditional MS SQL Server offered on premise, best way is to use IaaS, VM with MS SQL Server installed….
In Part 1 we created VNet and in Part 2 we talked about how to create new VM. Once your VM is deployed, it’s ready to be used for whatever purpose you have for it. But you’ll probably want some of VMs to be accessible from outside your VNet, especially if this VM is webserver with IIS role…
Next step in creating Azure IaaS is adding VM to VNet we previously created. In Azure portal select ‘New’, then ‘Virtual Machines’ and then select OS you want. In this case I will select Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter. Again be sure to select ‘Resource Manager’ from menu and click ‘ Create’ New tile will open…
Creating VNet is basically first step in creating your IaaS in Azure. Once you create VNet you can add VMs to it and allow traffic between them, you can connect your local (on-prem) network by Site-2-Site or Point-2-Site and so on. We’ll talk about those more in next posts. In Azure portal select ‘New’, then ‘Networking’ and…
Lately I neglected blog due other obligations – my job, speaking at various conferences and doing Azure trainings. Mostly I spoke about Azure IaaS, networking in Azure, extending local Datacenter to the cloud etc. What caught my attention is that a lot of audience was asking questions about basic Azure IaaS like how do we attach…
First of all, Happy New Year to everyone! For me this year started great, so I wanted to look back and review events from 2015 that lead me here. So everything starts with my job as System Engineer at Comp Group where I have opportunity to work on great projects and use latest technologies. As I like…