In Azure cloud platform, we can find two models for deploying workloads & resources. Azure Service Management model (Classic model) and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) lets get a brief idea about it. What’s Azure Resource Manager ? “An Azure Resource Group is a logical container for grouping Azure resources. As an example,consider a typical website implementation… Continue reading Provision Azure VM via PowerShell -ARM Model
Azure Backup is the service that you use to back up and restore your data in the Microsoft cloud. Azure backup replaces your existing on-premises or off-site backup solution with a cloud-based solution that is reliable, secure, and cost-competitive. It also helps protect assets that run in the cloud. It provides infrastructure that is scalable, durable,… Continue reading Backup ARM VMs to a Recovery Service Vault
What is a Container ? Containers are an isolated, resource controlled, and portable operating environment. A container is an isolated place where an application can run without affecting the rest of the system and without the system affecting the application. Containers are the next evolution in virtualization. When we enter to a container it feels the… Continue reading How to Run IIS Server inside Windows Container
What is Nano Server ? Nano Server is the next foundation of Windows Server, stripped down to its essence for speedy operation to support Micro service style architectures and cloud optimized applications. It is similar to Server Core mode in Windows Server, but significantly smaller, has no local logon capability, and only supports 64-bit applications,… Continue reading How to Deploy Nano Server
As I explore the Azure I got an idea of access and manipulate the azure storage through an application.as a IT Pro I’m not an expert of cording 😀 but I thought of giving a try to test it. So first we have to create a azure storage account and create a container in blob storage Next… Continue reading Access Azure Storage through a Simple .NET Application
Yesterday (february 10) Microsoft announce the preview feature remote management tools which hosted in azure. By using this service it allows us to directly manage the servers from azure by using web HTML5 portal. This is the first public preview of the Remote Server Management Tools and it limited to manage Windows Server 2016 Technical… Continue reading Server Management Tools For Nano & Windows Server (Azure)
Before creating an azure website we have to determine the location you want to create the site and unique name for the site we can use the following cmdlet to get the locations. To determine the unique website name we can use the following cmdlet. It returns true or false if it returns true that… Continue reading Creating Azure Web Site Using PowerShell
When we want to automate the deployment of VM in azure we can use PowerShell as an option There are two ways of creating a VM using PowerShell Using New-AzureQuickVM Using New-AzureVMConfig Using New-AzureQuickVM This Cmdlet allows to provision a single virtual machine with a simple configuration based on an image only. This Cmdlet doesn’t… Continue reading Create Azure VM Using Powershell
When Microsoft release the Windows 10 newest OS on July 29th.Following are some of the new additions that come up with it. Start Menu New start menu is a mixture of old windows 7 start menu and the new metro style start menu which they introduce with the windows 8 and most of the… Continue reading New addition to Windows 10
Windows Server Core is an installation option introduce with Windows Server 2008. It provides the minimal environment for running specific server roles. I ll mentioned the roles that support in late in this post. In Server Core installation it not include any graphical interface such as desktop shell, GUI,Windows Explore,IE and MMC (Microsoft Management Control)… Continue reading Manage and Configuring Server Core in Windows Server 2012 R2
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