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Microsoft Azure MVP Update

July 1st is a day of joy and anxiety for me as I celebrate Canada day with my family but also constantly refreshing my inbox to see if I got renew as a Micro...

Azure Blueprints: Intro

Governance for any cloud is very important and it’s imperative to take the time to put in place the proper guardrails to secure, control cost and monitor. Gu...

Azure in the Government of Canada

Ottawa IT professionals is a new user group that Colin Smith and I started late this year and we had our first meetup on December 4th. We are trying somethin...

Azure Kubernetes Hackfest - Day 2

With day one complete and everyone is at the same or better level of there understanding of containers and Kubernetes we move on to the final day of the HAck...

Azure Kubernetes Hackfest - Day 1

I travelled to Toronto this week to attend the Azure Kubernetes Hackfest for Microsoft and Partners to learn more about container orchestration and some of t...

Azure Site to Site VPN with Cisco Meraki

Recently I received a Cisco Meraki Z3 from my work to be used at home as a teleworker gateway. If you don’t know what a Meraki Z3 it’s a teleworker gateway ...

ARM Templates: VPN Gateway

This post is part of a series. The previous posts in the series can be found here: ARM Templates: Networking

ARM Templates: Networking

It’s been a very busy last few months for me with work and doing lots of deployments in Azure. What I like doing the most is writing ARM templates for each d...

Secure your IaaS VMs with Duo Security

Deploying a developer or jump VM in the cloud can be easily done but once you add a public IP address to your VM you are exposed. Attackers consistently scan...

Azure DevOps Project

Wow! How did I miss this. Microsoft annouce on November 15th, 2017 the Azure DevOps Project. This new blade in the azure portal helps accelerate your develo...

Azure Policy Public Preview

Azure Policy (public preview) is a new blade in the Azure portal that helps you manage policies easily across all of your subscriptions in a single place. Th...

satAZUREday: Thank you

I had the pleasure of presenting two sessions at satAZUREday here in Ottawa. In my first presentation, I discussed Azure Dev/Test Labs and creating a CI/CD p...

Azure Governance

Governance in Azure or any location is a complex topic that requires a lot of thought and planning. During the DevOps Enterprise Summit, Josh Atwell tweeted ...

Azure DevTest Labs: Artifacts

Artifacts allow you to install applications after you provision your Virtual Machine. In this article, I will discuss how you can use a storage account to in...

Azure DevTest Labs: Public Repo

Adding custom artifacts and templates to your Azure DevTest labs offers a great way to enhance your DevTest experience. To add this functionality to your Dev...

SMAUG: Azure Site Recovery

I had the pleasure of presenting at the Southeast Michigan Azure User Group (SMAUG) on Azure Site Recovery. In my presentation, I discussed the importance of...

Azure Site Recovery: Recovery Plans

Continuing on our series of blog posts for Azure Site Recovery we will be configuring the Recovery Services Vault by preparing our infrastructure and creatin...

Azure Site Recovery: Initial Setup

Continuing our series of blog posts for Azure Site Recovery, we will be creating the Recovery Services Vault utilizing an ARM Template. Included in the templ...

Azure Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is Microsoft’s offerring for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). It reduces complexity and cost by replicating your virtual mac...

Azure DevTest Labs deployment: Set Tags

A new enhancement to Azure devtest labs now allows you to add tags to your lab. You can apply tags to VMs, NICs, IP addresses, load balancers, storage accoun...

Azure DevTest Labs Setup

Recently I have been using DevTest Labs to test customer scenarios a lot and deploying a new lab is quite easy utilizing the Azure DevTest Lab quickstart tem...

Azure Site-To-Site VPN

This article will how to create a site-to-site VPN from Azure subscription to my local pfSense virtual router. This is useful when you need to test some hybr...

Azure Mobile Application

During the keynote on day 1 of the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, Azure Mobile Application was announced. This application allows an administrator to chec...

Azure Cloud Shell

This week at Microsoft Build 2017, Azure Cloud Shell was unveiled as a new addition to the Azure portal. This is a built-in browser based Bash shell that all...

PowerShell AzureRM Install Issue

I was working with the Azure ARM cmdlets today and encountered some issues with my deployments. After some research, I found out that the AzureRM module I w...

Azure Provision VM - Part2

Automate the creation of the resources required to deploy a single virtual machine using the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) PowerShell Cmdlets. This article wi...

Azure Provision VM - Part1

Automate the creation of the resources required to deploy a single virtual machine using the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) PowerShell Cmdlets. This article wi...

Azure: Rename Subscription

Renaming your Azure subscriptions can be very handy when working with multiple subscriptions and/or powershell.

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PowerShell Workflow: Get-LastReboot

Recently I had to check hundreds of servers to check their uptime and identify which servers had rebooted. I had my own script to check a single server but ...

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