Azure Virtual Machines

Microsoft has finally made Windows Server 2019 (WS2019) generally available for IaaS virtual machines on their public cloud, Microsoft Azure.

In this post, Aidan explains the different ways that you can use Azure Backup to restore an Azure virtual machine.

Aidan shows you how you can switch a virtual machine’s disks between the different tiers, such as from Standard HDD to Premium SSD, or from Premium SSD to Standard SSD.

Aidan breaks down what you need to know before choosing an Azure virtual machine.

Aidan explains how a new way to restore virtual machine’s disks from backup simplifies some of the complexity we have had with recovering infrastructure assets in the past.

It's the end of the month and if you missed any of the Azure announcements, we have you covered.

This post will explain what the preview for Customer Lockbox for Azure virtual machines is and how to enable it and use the feature.

Microsoft has launched a new kind of Azure virtual machine that uses new Intel hardware features to offer a secure computing platform for data security-sensitive operations.

October was a busy time for Azure announcements, here's what you need to know about the announcements last month.

Aidan breaks down all the Azure Virtual Machine news from Microsoft's Ignite conference.

Ahead of Ignite, a few new Azure features have started to show up.

Aidan shows you how to deploy application security groups to create granular (per-NIC) network security group rules in the Azure Portal.

Azure SQL Data Sync is useful where data needs to be unidirectionally or bidirectionally synchronized across several Azure SQL Databases or SQL Server databases.

Aidan summarizes what's been going on in Azure IaaS in August, and I'll also discuss a few features and services that you might have missed or forgotten about.

If you are running Windows Server 2016, you already have a robust set of DR tools at your disposal but the question is, are you utilizing them?