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Cloud Mechanix – “Starting Azure Infrastructure” Training Coming To Frankfurt, Germany

September 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

I have great news. Today I got confirmation that our venue for the next Cloud Mechanix class has been confirmed. So on December 3-4, I will be teaching my Cloud Mechanix “Starting Azure Infrastructure” class in Frankfurt, Germany. Registration Link. Buy Ticket About The Event This HANDS-ON [...]

Azure Management Groups

May 30, 2018 // 1 Comment

Microsoft has created a new administrative model for organisations that have many Azure subscriptions called Management Groups. With this feature, you can delegate permissions and deploy Azure Policy (governance) to lots of subscriptions at once. The contents of this post are currently in preview [...]

Azure-to-Azure Site Recovery Fails – Connection Cannot Be Established

February 20, 2018 // 1 Comment

In this post, I’ll explain how to fix the following errors when you attempt to replicate an Azure virtual machine from one Azure Region to another: Error 151072: Connection cannot be established to Azure Site Recovery service endpoints. And: Error 539: The requested action couldn’t be [...]

Amsterdam – Starting Azure Infrastructure Course

January 22, 2018 // 4 Comments

I am happy to announce that our Cloud Mechanix venture is bringing my custom-written Starting Azure Infrastructure course to Amsterdam on April 19-20. This course is intended for IT professionals and developers that wish to start working with or improve their knowledge of Azure virtual machines. [...]

Azure VMs–Block Outbound Traffic to the Internet (Updated)

January 18, 2018 // 1 Comment

In theory, it was possible to deny all outbound traffic to the Internet from an Azure VM. In theory, I can also place a loaded gun to my head, but my doctor disapproves of that. Here’s what would happen: You created an outbound rule to Deny all traffic to a service tag (location) called Internet. [...]

Microsoft Azure Started Patching Reboots Yesterday

January 4, 2018 // 3 Comments

Contrary to a previous email that I received, Microsoft started rebooting Azure VMs yesterday, instead of the 9th. Microsoft also confirmed that this is because of the Intel CPU security flaw. The following email was sent out to customers: Dear Azure customer, An industry-wide, hardware-based [...]

Intel CPU Security Bug

January 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

Gossip started to twirl in the last few days about what was driving both Azure and AWS to push out updates at relatively short notice. And news leaked over the last day that Intel has discovered a significant security flaw in the code of nearly all (or all) Intel processors manufactured in the last [...]

I Am Running My “Starting Azure Infrastructure” Course in London on Feb 22/23

November 16, 2017 // 7 Comments

I am delighted to announce the dates of the first delivery of my own bespoke Azure training in London, UK, on February 21st and 22nd. All the details can be found here. In my day job, I have been teaching Irish Microsoft partners about Azure for the past three years, using training materials that I [...]

Azure Compute: New Features & Roadmap

September 25, 2017 // 3 Comments

Speaker: Corey Sanders, Director of Compute, Azure, Microsoft Lots of stuff that hasn’t been talked about yet. Compute Through The Ages Some old PCs, aa rack, a video of Monkey Boy doing developers developers developers, tablets, the cloud, and an alien (Quantum Computing). Digital Transformation [...]

WatchGuard Now Supported by Azure for Dynamic/Route-Based VPN

December 8, 2016 // 1 Comment

Microsoft now supports WatchGuard’s firewalls with the 11.12 firmware (fireware) for dynamic or route-based VPN. There are two kinds of VPN gateway in Azure: Static / policy-based: 1:1 connections, don’t support point-to-site VPN, or VNet-to-VNet VPN, website-to-VNet VPN, and really only good [...]

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