Reading Time: 2 minutes This offering of constrained vCPU capable VMs has been around for quite a while in Azure. Use it for your SQL Server or Oracle servers that are not CPU intensive but need the rest of the resources RAM, IO, network to be of a larger VM but with a lower price because of fewer cores to license.
New Azure Resource Manager templates capabilities released
Reading Time: < 1 minute New capabilities for Resource Manager templates are now available to help address some key challenges. Check the useful links.
#MSBuild starts today!
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A ton of announcements have been pouring in the last couple of hours that Microsoft Build has started.
48 hours of live sessions from the product groups and many renowned Microsoft people.
Connect now at https://mybuild.microsoft.com/ and tune-in to the sessions you like!
Don’t forget to check the #MSBuild tag on social media! I will also be putting things on my twitter.
Cheers!
Azure Spot Virtual Machines goes GA
Reading Time: 3 minutes General availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines was announced today. Azure Spot VMs provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts. Read the post to get more insight.
PowerShell snippet of the day #2
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Azure Network Security Groups
Reading Time: 3 minutes Use Azure network security group to filter network traffic to and from Azure resources in an Azure virtual network. Essentially NSGs act like a basic “firewall” in that it filters the traffic in and out of the perimeter of the resources associated with.
Azure Application Security Groups
Reading Time: 3 minutes Application security groups enable you to configure network security as a natural extension of an application’s structure, allowing you to group virtual machines and define network security policies based on those groups.
PowerShell snippet of the day #1
Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I had the pleasure working with a single host that had more than 50 Dynamics NAV NST instances. I needed to change the stop the instances while checking the status of the instances being brought down, so I wrote the below PowerShell script.