A while back I wrote a blog post on how to enable NSG flow and traffic analytics in bulk for all your NSGs. A few things have changed since then so I decided to create a V2 version of the PowerShell script. You will notice that the script has been updated to use the...
By default every Windows virtual machine that you deploy in Azure from the marketplace will be deployed using US regional settings. So the timezone, time format, currency, keyboard will all be in EN-US.I got a few requests lately from customers and others if it would be possible to automate the regional settings, sytem locales...
A common design pattern in Azure is the Hub and Spoke topology as described here. In this blog post I will describe how you can deploy a spoke environment in a different subscription and enable VNET-peering to the hub environment with Blueprints. We assume that the Hub environment is already fully configured and deployed....
Microsoft has announced a new Azure API Management Consumption tier. This new tier aligns with serverless architecture principles that includes automated scaling, built-in high availability and requires no infrastructure to provision or manage. Traditionally, Azure API Management has been deployed through a scale unit approach that is measured hourly. This approach results in billing events being accrued,...
I was recently playing with Azure Cognitive Services and wanted to test Sentiment Analysis of Twitter. In this blog post I will go through how to setup the different components and analyse the sentiment of Tweets that contain the Azure or AWS hashtag. We will then be able to compare the sentiment of Azure...
It is strongly recommended to use managed disks when deploying virtual machines in Azure. But one of the downsides of managed disks is that you are unable to move your virtual machines to another subscription. That is….until now! At Ignite 2018 Microsoft announced an update to the Microsoft.Compute Resource provider that let’s us move...
Hi, As Microsoft Ignite is now over I wanted to quickly download all Azure related slides. Luckily there are few PowerShell scripts available to do this but the best one I found is this one https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Ignite-2016-Slidedeck-and-296df316 developed by Michel de Rooij. I’ve noticed though that some of the default commands don’t work as expected. I would for...
Microsoft announced significant improvements to Azure Files at Ignite 2018 – higher scale, more IOPS, more throughput, lower latency, better security, and improved Azure File Sync! Introducing limited public preview of Azure Premium Files They introduced a Solid-State Drive (SSD) based file service, which is suitable for workloads that are latency sensitive, IO intensive, and require...
Microsoft announced a series of exciting new offerings on Azure Disks at Ignite Conference today. Here is a quick summary of the Ignite releases: Ultra SSD: New Azure Managed Disks offering for your most latency-sensitive workloads Pricing | Azure Disks webpage Microsoft announced the Public Preview of Ultra SSD: a new Azure Managed Disks offering for your most...
In this blogpost I will show you how you can use Azure CDN to improve the performance of your WordPress site. I’m running WordPress for my blog and have a lot of static content. All my blog post, once written and published will not change and remain the same year after year. This is...