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Migrating DHCP from Server 2003 to Server 2012 R2

<div class="text geshifilter-text">this is something very common lately and always I follow this post: <a href="http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server-2003-end-support/migrating-dhcp-server-2003-server-2012-r2">http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server-2003-end-support/migrating-dhcp-server-2003-server-2012-r2</a></div> <div class="text geshifilter-text"></div> <div class="geshifilter"> <div class="text geshifilter-text">Netsh<br />DHCP<br /&

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Azure Log Analytics | CPU Performance Monitor

Azure Log Analytics | CPU Performance Monitor In this article we will create a CPU Performance monitor View for our servers at the Azure Log Analytics (OMS) Portal. At the Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) portal press the + button to create a new View The View Designer workspace will open. Select the “Line chart & callout” At the Properties blade enter a Name, something like “CPU Performance Monitor”, add the below query and press Apply Type:Perf CounterName="% Processor Time"

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Microsoft Azure Nested Virtualization | Hyper-V Replica on Azure

Microsoft Azure Nested Virtualization | Hyper-V Replica on Azure After my Microsoft Azure Nested Virtualization | Hyper-V VM inside Azure VM post on how to create a Nested VM inside an Azure VM, I am following with how to have Hyper-V Replica on Azure. To accomplish this we will use the Azure VM and the Nested VM from the Microsoft Azure Nested Virtualization | Hyper-V VM inside Azure VM post. The first step is to create an identical pair of Azure VM and Nested VM to use for replica server. The

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Azure Backup Reports

Azure Backup Reports A new feature is in public preview, the Azure Backup Reports. Now we can have the Azure Backup Reports at the OMS Workspace, Event Hub and Power Bi. You can use Power BI to view report dashboard, download reports and create custom reports The configuration has two steps, one to configure the Azure Backup Reports connection with each service and the other is to get the data at each service. First go to a Recovery Services vault and select Backup Reports. Next press the Config

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Add multiple managed disks to Azure RM VM

Add multiple managed disks to Azure RM VM In this post I have created a PowerShell script to help add multiple managed disks to an Azure RM Virtual Machine. The script to add multiple managed disks will prompt you to login to an Azure RM account, then it will query the subscriptions and ask you to select the desired. After that it will query the available VMs and promt to select the target VM from the VM list. At this point I am checking the OS disk and define the storage type of the data disk.

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Microsoft Azure Nested Virtualization | VM in Nested VM in Azure VM

Microsoft Azure Nested Virtualization | VM in Nested VM in Azure VM After my main Microsoft Azure Nested Virtualization | Hyper-V VM inside Azure VM post, we saw two usage scenarios. One is running Hyper-V Replica and the other is running Web Server in nested VM on Azure. Now lets have some fun and try to run a VM nested inside a VM nested inside an Azure VM. As a fellow said, VM inception! We will use again the nested VM that we created at the Microsoft Azure Nested Virtualization | Hyper-V VM

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Microsoft Azure Nested Virtualization | Web Server

Microsoft Azure Nested Virtualization | Web Server At my previous post, Microsoft Azure Nested Virtualization | Hyper-V VM inside Azure VM, I described how to create a Hyper-V VM inside an Azure VM with the new Dv3 and Ev3 VM sizes. Now we will see how to use a Hyper-V Nested VM as a Web Server that is hidden behind the Azure VM to secure access to your web application. Starting we will add the IIS Role at the Nested VM. Go to the Server Manager, add Roles and Features and select the Web Server

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Azure VM Image

Azure VM Image Following one of my earlier posts, about Azure Managed Disks, lets see how easy it is to create an Azure VM Image from an Azure VM that uses Managed Disks. The first step it to Sysprep/Generalize the source VM. Otherwise the VM that will be created will not start. Select Generalize and “Shutdown”. After that wait the VM to shut down and go to the Azure Porta, at the VM’s blade and click “Capture”. Now, the “Create Image” blade will open. Enter a name, select a Resource Group and

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Azure VM Backup directly from VM’s blade

Azure VM Backup directly from VM’s blade By Pantelis Apostolidis | December 28, 2016 0 Comment   Azure VM Backup directly from VM’s blade Azure makes the VMs’ administration simpler every time. Today we will view a very nice new feature, the Backup shortcut at the VM’s blade. Just click on the VM and select Backup All you have to configure is the Backup Vault name and the Backup policy at the next easy step and press Enable Backup at the bottom of the “Enable backup” blade and that’s all!

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Azure AD | Secure Web Application Publishing

Azure AD | Secure Web Application Publishing Application Publishing Azure Active Directory Application Proxy is a very easy and secure way for web application publishing using the extremely secure Azure AD authentication mechanism. There are a tone of features, like SSO and 2 Factor Authentication. But lets see the basic here. You have a web application that you are using internal to your network, not even https, or you have developed a web application and you want an easy and safe way to publis

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Exchange 2013/16 Set Virtual Directories Notes

Exchange 2013/16 Set Virtual Directories Notes By Pantelis Apostolidis | December 13, 2016 0 Comment   You can find all this info at many many blogs allover the internet, I just want to have a note here to have them gathered for ease.   Outlook Anywhare Get-OutlookAnywhere | Select Server,ExternalHostname,Internalhostname   Get-OutlookAnywhere | Set-OutlookAnywhere -ExternalHostname mail.mydomain.com -InternalHostname mail.mydomain.com -ExternalClientsRequireSsl $true -InternalClientsR

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Azure Web Farm using IIS & Azure File storage

Azure Web Farm using IIS & Azure File storage This post is my view of a complete guide, from A to Z, including both the Windows Server part and the Azure Portal part on how to build a Web Farm using IIS & Azure File storage. Following this guide you will have a functional two server IIS Web Farm using Azure File storage. To create a Web Server Farm the mail requirement is a high available common storage. I see that when deploying on Azure, a lot of people are using DFSR for common storag

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Add AlwaysOn AG to SQL Failover Cluster Instance (Page 2)

SQL Failover Cluster with AlwaysOn Availability Groups   Πάμε τώρα για το τελευταίο κομμάτι του lab, να προσθέσουμε AlwaysOn Availability Group στο υπάρχον SQL WSFC. Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster with FreeNAS 9.3 (Page 1, Page 2) Microsoft SQL 2012 on Failover Cluster (Page 1, Page 2, Page 3) Add AlwaysOn AG to SQL Failover Cluster Instance (Page 1, Page 2, Page 3) Add AlwaysOn AG to SQL Failover Cluster Instance (Page 2)   Επίσης σε αυτό το σημείο να αναφέρω ότι επειδή χρ

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Get early access to large disks support of Azure Backup & more

Get early access to large disks support of Azure Backup & more Azure Backup’s 1TB limitation at last is over! Now you can backup VMs with disk sizes up to 4TB(4095GB), both managed and unmanaged. Also has improvements on backup and recovery performance that you can find here. Starting today login to the Portal, go to your Recovery Services vault and you will a notification saying “Support for >1TB disk VMs and improvements to backup and restore speed ->” Click the notification and the

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Free e-book: Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide

Free e-book: Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide Microsoft Azure is giving free a Strategy and Implementation guide for Azure. This e-book provides guidance, architecture and advises to implement and integrate cloud technologies. This guide is directed to system administrators, cloud architects and project managers. It has for chapters, the Governance, the Architecture, the Application development and operations and the Service management. It will help you for starting with Azure or just doi

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Azure Private Link | Private connection to Azure PaaS

<h1>Azure Private Link | Private connection to Azure PaaS</h1> <p> </p> <p>Azure Private Link is a new service, currently in Preview, that provides private connectivity from a virtual network or an on-premises network with Site-2-Site VPN to Azure platform as a service (PaaS) Microsoft services. Azure Private Link makes the networking a lot more simple improving the security and eliminating the need for public access.</p> <p id="nAIxogs"><img class="a

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Connect two or more Azure Virtual Networks using one VPN Gateway

Connect two or more Azure Virtual Networks using one VPN Gateway Peering is a feature that allows to connect two or more virtual networks and act as one bigger network. At this post we will see how we can connect two Azure Virtual Networks, using peering and access the whole network using one VPN Gateway. We can connect Virtual Networks despite if they are in the same Subscription or not. I have created a diagram to help understand the topology. We have a Virtual Network with Site-2-Site VPN w

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Govern your Azure environment

<h1>Govern your Azure environment</h1> <p>It was a day full of Microsoft Azure and technology, from both IT Pro & Dev perspective. A sunny day at Athens, with a lot of fun. For sure we had a great time!</p> <p>You can download my Athens Azure Bootcamp 2019 presentation, Govern your Azure environment, from this <a href="https://papostolidisgr-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/pantelis_e-apostolidis_gr/EUS8pnejNdNEhrm0GVe4qaYBkFH2s_ZZKqGh9AaDY0NTFw?e=nQaNSD">

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Azure Portal Tip | Virtual Machines bulk actions

Azure Portal | Virtual Machines bulk actions Azure Portal is a great GUI tool to administer all your Azure Resources and it continues evolving. Here is a very useful Tip. Did you know that you can manage Virtual Machines in bulk using the Azure Portal VIrtual Machines section? We have virtual machines bulk actions! Not only we can Assign Tags, Start, Restart, Stop and Delete Virtual Machines in bulk but also configure Change Tracking, Inventory and Update Management!! Filter out the Virtual Mac

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Create an Ultra High Available on-prem Azure VPN Connection

Create an Ultra High Available on-prem <-> Azure VPN Connection At this post we will see how to make a high available connection between our on-premises network and Azure. This way we will have an Active-Active Dual-Redundancy VPN Connection. The idea behind this is that we have a router/firewall cluster,connected with two ISPs and we want to also have a VPN connection with Azure using both ISPs actively. I call this an end-to-end high available connectivity between our on-premises infrast

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Azure Backup | Enable backup alert notifications

Azure Backup | Enable backup alert notifications Azure Backup generates alerts for all backup events, such as unsuccessful backups. A new option is to create backup alert notifications so Azure Backup will alert you firing an email when an alert is generated. To enable the backup alert notifications, navigate to the “Backup Alerts” section of the “recovery Services vault” and click the “Configure notifications” There switch the Email notification to On to enable the alerts. Enter one or more re

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Secure your Azure SQL locally inside your vnet using service endpoints

Secure your Azure SQL locally inside your vnet using service endpoints For many companies, a throwback of using Azure SQL was the Public Access. After the latest Azure updates you can use the service endpoints to Secure your Azure SQL locally inside your vnet! For the time, the feature is available only at the West Central US, West US 2, and East US regions but soon more will follow. So, lets secure your Azure SQL locally inside your vnet! At the VNET creation blade, select the Microsoft.Sql s

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Protect your Web App using Azure Application Gateway Web Application Firewall

Protect your Web App using Azure Application Gateway Web Application Firewall Web Application Firewall was always a big investment for a small or growing company as most of the top branded companies are charging a lot of money A Web Application Firewall protects your application from common web vulnerabilities and exploits like SQL Injection or Cross site scripting. Azure provides enterprise grade Web Application Firewall through the Application Gateway. It comes in two pricing models, Medium a

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Ασφαλίστε την Azure MySQL και PostgreSQL με τη χρήση Service Endpoints

Ασφαλίστε την MySQL και την PostgreSQL με τη χρήση Service Endpoints Σε προηγούμενο post, Ασφάλισε την Azure SQL Database μέσα σε ένα VNET χρησιμοποιώντας service endpoints, είδαμε πως μπορούμε να χρησιμοποιήσουμε τα Service Endpoints του Azure Virtual Network για να ασφαλίσουμε μια Azure SQL για πρόσβαση μόνο από εσωτερικό δίκτυο.   Σήμερα, το Microsoft Azure, ανακοίνωσε την γενική διαθεσιμότητα του Service Endpoints για MySQL και PostgreSQL. Αυτό δίνει την δυνατότητα να κόψουμε όλη την Publ

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Azure Policy | Limit the Azure VM Sizes

Azure Policy | Limit the Azure VM Sizes Azure Governance This post, Azure Policy, is the first of a series of posts about Azure Governance. The idea is to explain through examples and how-to-guides, the tools that Microsoft Azure provides to help the administrators to enforce rules to all subscriptions. Some examples of those rules are, to help the organizations to stay compliant with their corporate standards, to standardize the resources creation and management, to manage the permissions and a

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