Day 1 – Azure Fundamentals This is a two-part series of posts. The first day covered Modules 1 & 2, and the second day, Modules 3 & 4. https://aka.ms/azfunpath Module 1 Compute, Storage, TCO, HA – shared responsibility, scale, elasticity, fault tolerance (MS manages) DR, Global, Latency, economies of scale, […]
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Azure Training Day Microsoft Canberra – October 4th, 2016 Introduction A brief overview of the Azure Platform, starting from Infrastructure up. 36 Azure Regions, 28 Azure Compute. Most regions paired for redundancy. 500+ new releases in the past12 months, exceptional rate of change. Additional stats – the platform is very […]
Azure Training Day – Slightly Structured Notes
Introduction We’re finally here, and luckily for me, Microsoft has published an updated version of the Azure Stack – Technical Preview 2. I was unhappy with the performance of my original configuration (relying far too heavily on iSCSI), so I blew away my first (successful) deployment and reconfigured my server […]
Deploying the Azure Stack Technical Preview 2 – Part 1
1 Today I attended a Federal Government briefing at the Microsoft offices in Canberra. The agenda covered a wide area of topics, all relevant to Government and other sectors. These are my raw notes, taken during each session. I apologise in advance if they appear incoherent; I was put to task […]
Microsoft Federal Government Briefing – September 2016
Following on from Part 2. Editorial note: These keynotes started around 8:45am and ran non-stop until 10:45am, but sometimes went over. As a result, it’s a lot of content to cover, hence why I’ve been splitting them out into separate articles. By the time we returned to the MTCC, it […]
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2016 – Part 3
1 Earlier this month I flew to Toronto, Canada to attend the 2016 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. This was my first time attending a partner conference, and it was quite an experience. There was far too much content to complete in a single article, so I’ll start with an introduction and […]
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2016 – Part 1
Continuing on from the previous article.. I carefully inserted the PowerEdge M910. So that’s where I left off. Jumping straight in, I powered up the enclosure to be greeted with errors. So it turns out that any blade inserted needs its mezzanine cards to be aligned (slotted) to the chassis […]
Preparing for the Azure Stack – Part 2
Introduction Last year there was talk of Microsoft releasing the underpinnings of their Microsoft Azure platform for use i on-premises environments. Naturally, I was curious! Now, I don’t know much about this up front. Unfortunately the package doesn’t provide much more enlightenment. Fortunately, there’s some very handy information online: “Azure […]
A look at the Azure Stack POC (Part 1)
Microsoft Canberra 09/12/2015 Note: These are unedited shorthand notes taken from a presentation about the new features coming with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 which launched recently (CRM Online) and will launch soon (On Premise). Provided As-is. Presenters: Mike Hopwood, Duncan Haskins – CRM Specialists Personal business assistant – […]
Dynamics CRM 2016 – Notes from Presentation
Recently I had an old Microsoft Azure subscription ready to expire, yet I still had some resources linked to the outgoing subscription in question. Some of the active websites on another subscription still used SQL Databases on the old subscription. If you find yourself needing to move Azure assets between […]
Microsoft Azure – Migrating between subscriptions
Today I authenticated to the Azure portal to look at setting up a new Azure service when I took note of the alert (above) which popped up from the notification bar. So what are subscriptions and directories? Subscriptions and directories are accessed via the Subscriptions menu within the portal: You […]
How do you move Azure assets between directories?
Today I was able to successfully migrate all of my Windows Azure artifacts from one Microsoft Account/Subscription to another Microsoft Account/Subscription. The scenario was – I had an MSDN subscription via my former employer, and over the source of the past year, I’d developed a number of applications whilst learning […]
Migrating Subscriptions and Data within Microsoft Azure
Intro If you have used or are deciding on using an Azure hosted SQL Server database, you might also want the ability to govern the identities and credentials used to access your data. When you create a SQL Database in SQL Azure, initially credentials are created for you, but they […]
Login and User Management in SQL Azure
1 Following on from my previous article about Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview, I’m now moving on to Visual Studio 2013 Preview. I’ve installed on the same VM which now hosts Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview, selecting only a small subset of the available options. I’m mainly interested in Web Development, […]
A Look at Visual Studio 2013 Preview
This weekend, we’re going to be hosting “BizTalk” Bill Chesnut here in the nation’s capital for a day exploring the latest around BizTalk 2013. You’ll be able to read about the experience here on Sanders Technology. The day is sponsored by CGI Australia, and I hope to be live blogging […]