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It’s very easy to backup all your data on your QNAP NAS to the public Cloud from Azure. In this blogpost I’m describing all the necessary steps. Create A Storage account First make sure you have an active Azure account with a subscription. You can easily sign up for a one month free trial period. […]
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Recently I build a XenApp environment on Azure for demo purposes. I used –> this <– website helping me calculating the costs. This website (running on Azure :-)) makes it easy to calculate the costs of your XenApp/XenDesktop environment on Azure. You can provide the locations, working Hours, Workloads and number of users (and their profiles). […]
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I’m moving more and more of my whitebox environment towards Azure. But some parts are still running in my home environment. So I would like to create a Site-to-site VPN between my office @home and Azure. Because an Express Route would be slightly overkill I decided to build an Site 2 Site VPN. Some information […]
A couple of days while I was driving to the beach I noticed a problem with one of my machines running on Azure. Ofcourse I didn’t bring my laptop, so I first tried the Azure App in real life. I was very pleased. You can’t always predict what will happen or when, but you can […]
In my Azure test environment I’m running several Windows and Linux servers. In this blog post I describe an easy and effective way to patch them. It only takes you a minute of configuring! On a freshly installed Windows Server 2016 without patching there were 4 available updates (Azure template) : I’ve created a new […]
If you have found yourself in a scenario where you would like to use Hyper-V as a test environment for your virtual machines, but you are using VMware ESXi Server,Citrix XenServer or VirtualBox then this tutorial is for you. Required software Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 available here. WinRar (or any tool you prefer to extract .tar files) Your […]
Many people are running Linux in a virtual machine on Azure. But what if a Linux virtual machine refuses to start? Go to the Azure portal and open the virtual machine properties. First check out the CPU, network and disk utilization. Is CPU constantly peaking at 100%? Then you know that you must investigate that […]
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Making backups of virtual machines running on Azure using snapshot technology is a nice feature. But sometimes you don’t want to revert the whole snapshot but only want to restore a single file. Now this is possible. It uses the same backup/Snapshot technology you probably are already using. Open the virtual machine properties in the […]
Microsoft TechNet site has a great site that enables you to build your own cmdlets using a web drag and drop interface. There is support for : Let’s try Office 365 : You notice the drag and drop interface. First select the verb, for example Get. Click get and the send arrow. Now choose a […]
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Use the following steps to delegate (Calender) rights to a specific user. The first step is to specify your (administrator) credentials:
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$LiveCred = Get-Credential |
Then create the session:
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$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic –AllowRedirection |
Now import the Office 365 session using the following command:
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Import-PSSession $Session |
Use the following command to delegate the calender from user1 to specified user2:
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Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity user1@domain.com:\calendar -user user2@domain.com -AccessRights Editor |
Et voilà! The […]
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Like many other people I use a Synology NAS for back-up purposes. All my backup data and other files is stored on the single device. But what when there is a problem with that device or your house (or office) is burned down to the ground. You won’t be able to gain access to your […]
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In this article I describe how to publish a remoteapp using Microsoft Azure. First login to the Azure Portal using your (admin) creds and create a RemoteApp : After you select the +NEW button use the following steps to create a RemoteApp: Give a name, the region you wish the data to be stored and […]
In this blog post I describe how you easily can monitor the performance and the availability of a website. You need an Azure (trial-) account and Visual Studio Enterprise (or Ultimate). There are multiple options, but in this post I describe the URL ping test and the Multi-step web test. The ping test is an […]
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I found a nice presentation of the possibilities of Microsoft Azure. Download it here. […]
Between approximately 09:00 and 13:15 today, Office365 and Azure customers experienced issues accessing Azure services that use, or have dependencies on, Azure Active Directory. Check the current status here […]
Veeam has a new product/version of their FastSCP tool and I think it’s amazing! First for this demo I’ve created a Windows 2012 R2 server on Azure : Nothing new here, so let’s move on! Download the beta of FastSCP for Azure here. After a quick install (next-next-next) start the program : After starting you […]
Use the following steps to configure Veeam Backup & Recovery to back-up the VM’s (Hyper-V and VMware) to Azure. You can sign up and use free trial licenses for Veeam (check out the banner on the right) and Azure. You only pay for the storage (3 ct for each Gigabyte and the network consumption for […]
