Installing Gnome desktop on CentOS running in Windows Azure VM
I recently tried to setup Gnome Desktop on CentOS 6.3 running in a Windows Azure virtual machine. It turned out to be a bit harder than expected so I thought I will document this for other who may...
View ArticleAzure Cross platform Command Line Tools on Mac OSX
Windows Azure cross platform command line tools are a great way to manage your Azure infrastructure. These tools were developed in Node.JS. These tools can be used on Windows, MAC and Linux. However...
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Creating DMZ in Azure Part II
More than one year ago I had written a blog post about Setting up a DMZ in Azure. At that time Azure networking did not have features necessary to implement a DMZ. At Tech Ed Barcelona there were many...
View ArticleDNS issue while setting Active Directory in Azure Virtual Network
I was recently setting up active directory in an Azure Virtual Network and I ran into an issue related to DNS. MSDN has the following documentation about setting up Active Directory in Azure Virtual...
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Taking new Azure High Performance Gateway for a Test Drive
Overview In the past month Azure platform has announced many improvements to their networking services. One of the improvement that was announced was a release of High Performance network gateway. You...
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Azure Usage monitoring with Azure Automation
When you purchase an Azure subscription it comes with usage caps for various resources. As an example the usage cap for number of cores is 20. You can call use Azure Support and open a free billing...
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Azure SDK 2.6 Diagnostics Improvements for Cloud Services
I haven’t blogged for a while because of being very busy at work. Things are slowing down a bit so I will try to write more frequently. History Azure SDK 2.5 made big changes to Azure diagnostics. It...
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How to migrate from Standard Azure Virtual Machines to DS Series Storage...
Background We are implementing Azure solutions for a few clients. Most of our clients are use cloud services and virtual machines to implement their solutions on Azure platform. For many years Azure...
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Installing Splunk Forwarder in Azure Web/Worker Roles with a Startup Task
Overview I recently had to install Splunk Universal Forwarder in Azure worker roles. Azure web/worker roles are stateless so the only way to install any software is to do so via Azure startup tasks....
View ArticleAdventures with Azure Resource Manager Part I
Overview In this series of blog posts I will create ARM templates used to provision Azure resources. I will kick things off by creating a template that shows you have to create multiple storage...
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Azure Usage monitoring with Azure Automation
When you purchase an Azure subscription it comes with usage caps for various resources. As an example the usage cap for number of cores is 20. You can call use Azure Support and open a free billing...
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Azure SDK 2.6 Diagnostics Improvements for Cloud Services
I haven’t blogged for a while because of being very busy at work. Things are slowing down a bit so I will try to write more frequently. History Azure SDK 2.5 made big changes to Azure diagnostics. It...
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How to migrate from Standard Azure Virtual Machines to DS Series Storage...
Background We are implementing Azure solutions for a few clients. Most of our clients are use cloud services and virtual machines to implement their solutions on Azure platform. For many years Azure...
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Installing Splunk Forwarder in Azure Web/Worker Roles with a Startup Task
Overview I recently had to install Splunk Universal Forwarder in Azure worker roles. Azure web/worker roles are stateless so the only way to install any software is to do so via Azure startup tasks....
View ArticleAdventures with Azure Resource Manager Part I
Overview In this series of blog posts I will create ARM templates used to provision Azure resources. I will kick things off by creating a template that shows you have to create multiple storage...
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