Tag: Public Cloud
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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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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…