Azure Virtual Machines

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?

Aidan dives into several ways that you can back up SQL Server which is running in an Azure virtual machine.

This step-by-step how-to post will instruct you on how to resize an Azure virtual machine, including changing the size within a series or switching the virtual machine to another series.

Aidan Finn shows you how you can use the snapshot feature of managed disks to create an exact copy (including identity and SID) of a virtual machine.

Aidan Finn explains how you can use volume licensing Software Assurance or Cloud Solution Provider subscriptions for Windows Server to reduce the cost of Microsoft Azure virtual machines.

Looking to see what the pro’s use every day? Aidan shares the apps that help him in the workplace.

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. 

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.