Category: General
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Azure Storage Service Encryption – Azure Resource Manager template
Enabling Storage Service Encryption for an Azure Storage account in the portal is only a one click show. As well with PowerShell it is very easy. Set-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName “smt” -Name “azcdmdncloudwitness” -EnableEncryptionService Blob -Verbose Currently there is no Azure Resource Manager QuickStart template available on GitHub for SSE. Therefore you have to dive into the…
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Dealing with Azure Disk Encryption and Windows OS disk resizing
When you are enabling Azure Disk Encryption on your Azure VM, the process will shrink your existing OS partition a bit to implement the System Reserved partition. The System Reserved partition is placed at the end of the OS disk. When you resize the OS disk, then the free space is added after this partition.…
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Speaking 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 https://systemcenteruniverseeurope2016.sched.org/event/7qjo/azure-iaas-security Providing test environments in Azure using Azure DevTest Labs https://systemcenteruniverseeurope2016.sched.org/event/7rzW/providing-test-environments-in-azure-using-azure-devtest-labs Ask-the-Experts: Focus ‘Cloud’ https://systemcenteruniverseeurope2016.sched.org/event/7IeC/ask-the-experts-focus-cloud Directly the weekend after SCU Europe I am at…
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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) Portal. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-release-of-the-azure-usage-and-billing-portal/ A setup guide is provided on the GitHub repository. https://github.com/Microsoft/AzureUsageAndBillingPortal/blob/master/Documentation/HOWTO.md So what is the intention of this blog post? Well as you may know I am working for Microsoft and that said I do not like to deploy an…
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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 Stack Let us start with the area storage explorer, something you want to use instead of…
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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 said, you only define the tags at the resource group level and you want to use them…