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…
There are many amazing features in Windows 10 but one that got me most is Azure AD Join. So in this post I’ll explain how to join Windows 10 device to Azure AD. You need to set up Azure AD first (or you can use Default Directory). In Azure portal you select + (new). …