Planning to run something in Microsoft Azure? Then choose your region wisely…
So you want to run your application, your next project, … something on Microsoft Azure? Now image you’re already at that point where you start using Microsoft Azure. What would be the first thing you...
View ArticleMigrating your Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine to a different subnet with the...
In the past you had to redeploy your Virtual Machine when you wanted to change the subnet in which the machine was deployed. There could be a few reasons why you would need to change the subnet for a...
View ArticleCustomizing your Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines with the new CustomScript...
After you deploy a Virtual Machine you typically need to make some changes before it’s ready to use. This is something you can do manually or you could use Remote PowerShell to automate the...
View ArticleManually installing the VM Agent on your older Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
Yesterday I covered the new CustomScript extension for the VM Agent and in today’s post we’ll continue on the VM Agent topic. The VM Agent was introduced a few weeks ago with support to install it when...
View ArticleTalking about Microsoft Azure at DevCon 2014 in Russia
Next month Microsoft is organizing DevCon 2014 at the Moscow Region resort of Yakhonty: May 28 – 29, 2014, the DevCon annual conference for developers of Microsoft platform applications will be held at...
View ArticleMy talk at DevCon 2014: Failover for Microsoft Azure (Web Sites)
Yesterday I did a talk at DevCon 2014 on how Microsoft Azure has native support for high-availability and disaster recovery. We talked about what you get out-of-the-box for high-availability and which...
View ArticleUsing the Azure File Service in your Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles)
Last month at TechEd Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure File Service (or Azure Files, or DFS-as-a-Service). This new feature allows us to access a Storage Account using the SMB...
View ArticleMigrating your Windows Server 2003 workloads to Microsoft Azure
A few weeks ago I explained how you could run any legacy OS in Microsoft Azure using Virtual Box. This was OK for testing purposes but not really suited for actually migrating resources to Microsoft...
View ArticleGetting started Azure Service Bus Event Hubs: building a real-time log stream
More posts on Event Hubs: IoT with Azure Service Bus Event Hubs: authenticating and sending from any type of device (.NET and JS samples) At WPC 2014 Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Event...
View ArticleIoT with Azure Service Bus Event Hubs: authenticating and sending from any...
Yesterday I wrote a post that introduces you Azure Service Bus Event Hubs. Today we’ll be covering a real IoT scenario, allowing your devices to authenticate with Event Hubs and send out events without...
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