Aidan Finn

We’re entering the laid-back days of Summer. There isn’t much Azure IaaS news, but we’re after quality, not quantity.  June was a good news month for those of us using Microsoft Azure.

This post will show how to use the Run Command to execute PowerShell scripts inside an Azure virtual machine running Windows Server from the Azure Portal. Note that this can also be done using PowerShell, CLI, and REST API.

After quite a long preview, Microsoft has made Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for Azure virtual machines generally available, providing inter-region replication of IaaS workloads. This is also known as Azure to Azure Site Recovery or A2ASR. 

Microsoft has launched the final preview release of Azure File Sync.

Microsoft recently shared information on its efforts to develop an undersea distributed data center solution to power The Cloud in the future.

Aidan Finn shows you how to enforce or audit governance to Azure subscriptions or resource groups using Azure Policy.

Aidan Finn shows you how to use a new preview feature in Azure Backup to protect SQL Server databases that are hosted in Azure virtual machines.

Microsoft recently made Azure Policy generally available. This post will explain the role of Azure Policy and how you can use it to audit for or enforce governance.

Aidan Finn explains several ways that you can use Traffic Manager, Azure’s website redirection solution, that enables high availability, fault tolerance, and more between different application deployments.

Microsoft has added a number of new features to Azure to support the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which many organizations outside and inside of Europe will require to avoid stiff penalties.

Let’s discuss the Auto-Shutdown settings in the properties of an Azure virtual machine, how to configure them, and whether you should use this feature or not.

I predicted that the Build conference would give us lots of Azure news. In one respect, I was right; there was lots of news.