I did few sessions on Azure Server Management Tools but my friend Romeo Mlinar keeps missing them. So he asked me today when will I do ‘How to’ article on SMT and here we are. Server Management Tools is great tool that helps you manage your servers remotely in a browser. Almost any browser is supported,…
Things in Azure change very quickly. It happened more then once that I did lecture on some Azure subject and in next few days half of it was out of date. Same thing almost happened to me on November 23 when I did webinar for Microsoft on Linux/Windows VM deployment in minutes (it can be accessed…
Next week, on 16th and 17th of November, Advanced Technology Days 12 is taking place in Zagreb, Croatia. This year I have privilege to take part in this event with 2 sessions. You can find more about session here. First one is on 17th at 10:55 AM and I will thave session DBA in the Cloud. For my second…
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…
I’m very happy to have opportunity to present at Sinergija 16 that takes place in Belgrade from 17th to 19th October. Also, it’s special honor that I have 2 sessions this year. Both sessions are on 2nd day(18th October), first at 13:40-14:40 in Adriatic 2 room and second at 16:20-17:20 at Baltic room. First session will be…
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…