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Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 2 on lower hardware specifications
New technical preview, new challenges. After I got the TP1 running on lower hardware specifications, I have tried the same for the TP2 and want to share the results with you. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/microsoft-azure-stack-technical-preview-on-lower-hardware/ First of all we have the same hardware requirements for TP2 as for TP1. Component Minimum Recommended CPU Dual-Socket: 12 Physical Cores…
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Azure announcements and news – Ignite 2016 Day 1
Sadly, I am not at the Microsoft Ignite 2016 in Atlanta this year. But the Azure blog RSS feed has gone crazy today at the first day of Ignite. First you should start reading with the overall post “Cloud innovations empowering IT for business transformation” by Jason Zander. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/cloud-innovations-empowering-it-for-business-transformation/ Then you should dive deeper…
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Microsoft Cloud Germany now available
What a day for us at Microsoft today. We recently announced the availability of the new Microsoft Azure regions Germany Central and Germany Northeast. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-germany-now-available-via-first-of-its-kind-cloud-for-europe/ -> https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/09/21/microsoft-cloud-expands-with-first-of-its-kind-offering-for-europe/ So Azure is expanding in the German market with a special model called the data trustee model. If you need more information about that, have a look…
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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…