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Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview on lower hardware
If you are not in a lucky position like me and you want to run the Azure Stack Technical Preview, but you do not have the required hardware then keep reading.Microsoft had released the hardware...
View ArticleShutdown and Startup Order for the Microsoft Azure Stack TP VMs
In my previous blog post I described how to install the Microsoft Azure Stack POC on lower hardware. Because my home lab does not run 24/7 I had to think about the correct shutdown and startup order...
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Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview – Difference between private and...
When you have installed the Azure Stack Technical Preview and you are creating your first offer. You have to decide whether your plan will be private or public. Regarding the offer you do not have the...
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Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview – Integrate the Microsoft Monitoring...
A lot of familiar extension are included in the Azure Stack TP like BGInfo, PowerShell DSC, Docker and so on. Looking for the Microsoft Monitoring Agent extension you will find out that this extension...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 on Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview
Inspired by the blog post of my MVP buddy Ben Gelens on how to CentOS to Azure Stack and the partnership of Microsoft with Red Hat, I decided to write this blog post about RHEL 7.2 on Azure Stack.->...
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Microsoft Azure Stack TP – MySQL RP Deployment Publish-GalleryPackages.ps1 fails
Hey everyone! Just a short post for a short tweak. When you are deploying the MySQL Resource Provider on your Azure Stack installation and you are using the service administrator account with an...
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Microsoft Azure Stack TP – Tweaking the SQL RP Deployment
And again just a longer post for a deployment tweak. When you are deploying the SQL Resource Provider on your Azure Stack installation you have to consider some requirements and stumbling blocks.First...
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Moving your OMS / Azure Log Analytics workspace to a different resource group
It has taken some time, but since several weeks OMS / Azure Log Analytics is integrated into Azure Resource Manager and with this comes the capability to move your workspace between different resource...
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Microsoft Azure Stack – Deploying your own images as a tenant
As a tenant you may want to deploy your own images instead of using the images provided by the cloud service provider. All you need to achieve your objective in Azure Stack is a sysprepped Windows...
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Azure Stack and Azure Consistency
One of the interesting things of Azure Stack beside the underlying hardware infrastructure is the consistency with Azure. But interesting is the wrong wording for this it is the key concept and one of...
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Speaking at VCNRW 2016 and CDC Germany
I wanted to highlight two events driven by the community I will be speaking at.The first stop is at the VCNRW 2016 on 20th April in Cologne. My session is about “Microsoft Azure Stack – Azure for your...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Stack Technical Preview – incremental release published
One of the pain points with the first Microsoft Azure Stack TP were the long running operations for IaaS regarding VM deployment, deletion, start and stop.Microsoft has released an incremental update...
View ArticleReview VCNRW sessions 2016
On April 20th I had the honor to speak at the first VCNRW sessions about my favorite topic Azure Stack. The one day conference was an awesome event with a set of top international speakers. Thanks to...
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Azure Disk Encryption is available for Windows VMs
Just in time before the weekend Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Disk Encryption for Windows VMs in all Azure regions that are public available.->...
View ArticleReview Cloud and Datacenter Conference Germany
On May 12th I had the honor to speak at the first Cloud and Datacenter Conference Germany about one of my favorite topics Azure IaaS especially the security part. The one day conference was an awesome...
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Using the latest API version in your Azure Resource Manager templates
I got a bit tired of checking which API version is the latest one and modifying my API variables in my ARM templates. So I investigated and tested a little bit and found a solution on how to get the...
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Referring to resource group tags in your Azure Resource Manager templates
Just a short blog post for a small useful hint.Assuming you are familiar with the Azure Resource Manager tags, I want to show you how you can refer to the resource group tags in your templates. That...
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Free tools for your daily work with Microsoft Azure / Azure Stack
When you are working with Azure or Azure Stack you have to use additional tools to keep your work easy. I would like to present some free tools, I am using at my daily work with Azure and Azure...
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Set up the Azure Usage and Billing Insights Portal for demo purposes
Last week Microsoft announced the availability of the Azure Usage and Billing Insights (AUBI)...
View ArticleSpeaking at SCU Europe 2016 and CIM Lingen
Just a short note. I will be speaking at two events in August. First stop is System Center Universe Europe 2016 in Berlin.My sessions at SCU Europe:Azure IaaS Security...
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