Disaster Recovery – how to recover your application if a disaster occurs. Disaster Recovery is part of what we call “resilience” today. Resilience is the how to ensure that our applications are reliable or recoverable. This is a different approach and view of the more legacy “disaster recovery” environment where a cold (or warm) standby […]
As a continuation of my AZGateway migration scripts I entered the scripting world again for the migration of VMs. As anything worth doing is worth doing twice I actually wrote the entire script and then found out the Microsoft Azure SAP team already had something lined up. While their script did migrate VM’s there were […]
As promised, I would cover Availability Zones a bit more in the next few posts. If your Azure region supports Availability Zones you probably want to use them. Yes the services are a bit more expensive but you gain a higher SLA and the ability to adopt an active-active infrastructure. This active-active infrastructure usually starts […]
Microsoft is working hard to make “Availability Zones” available for most of their primary Azure regions. What is an Availability Zone will be covered later in another blog post, including why you should use it, what advantages it brings and more importantly (as most of the previous is covered by Microsoft documentation) – how do […]
So, this topic might be a bit too short for you, and I’m sure your BGP filters in your SRX are way more advanced. But for the simpler people like me that just need to get something done; this one is for you. When I did the AnyCast DNS setup using BGP at home and […]
I wanted to write this post on when to decide on a new subscription or not.. but then it turned to security – which – as many of you know is close to me as well.. so while the beginning of this post is about “when to choose a new Azure subscription” the conclusion is: […]
Azure Reservations are a good way to reduce your cloud costs. Reservations are available for SQL, Databricks, storage Virtual Machines, and many other services. But in this topic I will be looking into Virtual Machines only. The reason for that is that these (although amongst others) are a; the most used, b; can be exchanged […]
The URL: Windows Virtual Desktop for the enterprise – Azure Example Scenarios | Microsoft Docs explains a bit on how the integration with Azure Files and Active Directory can be accomplished. However, it does not highlight the creation of the AD object to represent the storage in your Active Directory. So a short post on […]
MFA for WVD, doesn’t that already exist through Azure AD conditional access? Yes, it does, but its limited to certain scenario’s. With the Azure AD MFA WVD access, you only need to MFA once in order to access any desktop published through WVD. Which got me thinking: what if I want to request an MFA […]
In our previous post we talked about the scripts that can install applications and set settings automatically without even login-on to the system. In this post we will see how we can use those scripts in a JSON file, together with the Azure Image Builder. Within the JSON file we specify which OS we want, […]