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Auto Start/Stop an Azure VM (ARM)

Auto Start/Stop an Azure VM (ARM) For Azure VMs that are not needed to be running 24/7, we can use Azure Automation to schedule automatic Stop (Deallocate) and Start. First ensure to reserve resources if needed, such as the Private and the Public IP. Now lets see how we will Auto Start/Stop an Azure VM (ARM). First create an Automation Account, go to the Azure Portal, expand more services and search for automation. Then click the “Automation Accounts” At the Automation Accounts press “Add” At

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Auto-Shutdown Hyper-V free with UPS

<h1>Auto-Shutdown Hyper-V free with USB UPS</h1> <p>Recently i installed a Hyper-V 2012 R2 server (the free version) but my UPS doesn’t support Windows Core. No problem, we have PowerShell!! after some search on various sites – blogs – etc i end up creating the following script. It checks the battery status every 3 minutes, using WMI and when the battery drops below 50% is sends the shutdown signal. As long as you set the VMs to save on shutdown you are OK!</p> <p>I

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Exchange 2010 | add local domain CA certificate

<p>First we need to create a certificate request</p> <p>Open the Microsoft Exchange Management Console and navigate to Microsoft Exchange -> Server Configuration.</p> <p>On the right panel press the “New Exchange Certificate”</p> <p id="IcnajXr"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1027 " src="http://www.e-apostolidis.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_579b27be99f9e.png"alt="" /></p> <p>The “New Exchange Certificate” wizard will

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Calculate Azure VHD actual/billing size

<p>Azure blob storage is billed based to how much data you use. So you can have an 1023 GB disk but if you use only 20 GB you will be billed for 20 GB. But, <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/72x72/1f642.png"alt="?" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> , if you write more data, lets say 50 GB and then you erase them, the free space will not automatically be released.</p> <p>sandrinodimattia, https://github.com/sandrinodimattia, released an

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Match OnPrem Active Directory users to existing Office365 Users

<p>Lets say you have an Office 365 account and cloud only users with mailboxes and now you decide that you want to sync it and match the Office 365 users with your Active Directory users.</p> <p>I prepared a lab with one DC and I created a trial Office 365 E3 account with custom domain. I created users with the same username to both. At Active Directory I set the UPN to match the Office 365 user name and also added the email address.</p> <p>Next I enabled directory

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Released: Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator v7.9

Microsoft announce the new released an updated version of the Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator. This release doesn’t contain many enhancements, but does contain a number of bug fixes, especially in the deployment scripts. You can view what changes have been made, or download the update directly.     Source: The Microsoft Exchange Team Blog

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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SQL Server Performance Monitor Counters

<div>THE BEST SQL SERVER PERFORMANCE MONITOR COUNTERS TO ANALYZE</div> <div></div> <div>– These are listed OBJECT first, then COUNTER</div> <div>– Memory – Available MBytes</div> <div>– Paging File – % Usage</div> <div>– Physical Disk – Avg. Disk sec/Read</div> <div>– Physical Disk – Avg. Disk sec/Write</div> <div>– Physical Disk – Disk Reads/sec</div> <div>– Physical Disk – Disk Writes/sec</

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Create migration endpoint | (Cutover & Staging Migration)

<p>Open the Office 365 Exchange Administration Console and go to Recipients > Migration > More > Migration endpoints and click on the plus sign to add a new endpoint.</p> <p><a href="http://www.e-apostolidis.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cme1.png"><imgclass="alignnone size-full wp-image-1002" src="http://www.e-apostolidis.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cme1.png" alt="cme1" width="867" height="275" srcset="http://www.e-apostolidis.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/c

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Exchange 2013 Add public certificate and enable it

The exchangeserverpro.com site has the below excellent articles, to create the certificate request: to compete the pending request:and to enable it: The post Exchange 2013 Add public certificate and enable it appeared first on Proxima's IT Corner. <a href="http://www.e-apostolidis.gr/microsoft/exchange/exchange-2013-add-public-certificate-enable/"class='bbc_url' rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>

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Classic Azure VM Details

<p>I was looking for a way to have a list with many details about VMs of Azure Classic deployment. Some of the details are VM Name, HostName, Service Name, IP address, Instance Size, Availability Set, Operating System, Disk Name (OS), SourceImageName (OS), MediaLink (OS), HostCaching (OS), Subnet, DataDisk Name, DataDisk HostCaching, DataDisk MediaLink, DataDisk Size.</p> <p>I started with PowerShell ISE and some technet search and after a lot of test I created this script:<

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File Server in-place Domain Migration

File Server in-place Domain Migration When migrating to a new domain a major part is the file server, especially if there are a lot of data and different permissions. Thankfully Microsoft has a very helpful tool called SubInACL. This tool can be used to read and update security permissions and is much helpful for file server in-place domain migration. The tool can be downloaded here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23510 But after searching a lot there is not a specific

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SCRUM workshop με επαγγελματική πιστοποίηση Professional Scrum Master (2 απογεύματα και Σάββατο): "The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" |

SCRUM Workshop: 2 απογεύματα + Σάββατο "The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time!"   Οι γνώσεις Project Management και ειδικά του Agile, είναι η 2η πιο σημαντική δεξιότητα στην ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΚΗ για το 2015 (10 hottest IT skills for 2015). Για τον παραπάνω λόγο, 8 στις 10 θέσεις εργασίας στην πληροφορική ζητούν γνώσεις project management και AGILE. Επίσης, σύμφωνα με έρευνα της Scrum Alliance, το 73% των εταιρειών που χρησιμοποιούν Agile, χρησιμοποιούν κάποιας μορφής SCRUM.

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AzureRm | Create External Load Balancer with two VMs

After my previous post, the internal load balancer with two VMs, this is a scenario using the External Load Balancer. The configuration includes a Load Balancer with a Static Public IP at the frond end and two VMs at the back end. The load balancer has two static routes for RDP, one for each VM and one load balance rule, the TCP port 80, common for web sites and applications. It uses a probe that checks a web page on both hosts to verify if they are active.   Lets start. First we need to insta

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Windows package manager

Χαιρετώ τον κόσμο του autoexec.gr   Πριν 2-3 μήνες ανακάλυψα ένα πολύ χρήσιμο εργαλείο, κατά την γνώμη μου και θέλω να το μοιραστώ μαζί σας. Είναι ένας package manager για windows. Όπως υπάρχει το apt-get στα Debian linux και άλλα αντίστοιχα, τώρα έχουμε στα windows το Chocolatey. Δουλεύει χρησιμοποιώντας το Powershell. Η εγκατάσταση του γίνεται απλά τρέχοντας από ένα admin elevated command prompt την εντολή:   @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((new-object net.web

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AzureRm | Create Site to Site VPN

<h1><strong>AzureRm | Create Site to Site VPN</strong></h1> <p>This post is part of a general idea, to create an end-to-end high available application infrastructure solution in Azure using internal load balancer with the new AzureRm commands and Azure PowerShell v.1.0 preview.</p> <p>We will create a Gateway, request a Public IP and establish a Site to Site VPN. At the time I am writting this post there is no option to create the VPN ising the Portal, t

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AzureRm | Create Internal Load Balancer with two VMs

AzureRm | Create Internal Load Balancer with two VMs This post is part of a general idea, to create an end-to-end high available application infrastructure solution in Azure using internal load balancer with the new AzureRm commands and Azure PowerShell v.1.0 preview. For this solution I will use: 2x Centos 11 sp4 Web/Application Servers 2x Centos 11 sp4 MySQL Servers 1x Gateway The first part is to create an Internal Load Balancer in Azure to use it for two VMs. This setup is ideal for

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Storing DDL Statements History

Ένας οργανισμός έχει πολλά SQL Server Instances, πολλές databases και σίγουρα πάνω από έναν DBA, DB developer που έχουν πρόσβαση σε αυτά τα instances και αυτές τις databases. Ζητούμενο από όλους είναι να γνωρίζουμε τις αλλαγές που έχουν γίνει σε αυτές τις databases σε επίπεδο schema αλλά και πότε μπήκε ένας χρήστης σε ποιο ρόλο και πολλά ακόμα στοιχεία όπως δημιουργία indexes, αλλαγή στο μέγεθος μιας βάσης κλπ. Όλα αυτά ακόμα και μέσα από το SSMS να γίνουν είναι Data Definition Language (DDL) st

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Getting Started with Nano Server

What is Nano Server ? Nano Server is a new installation option that became available with the arrival of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview. It is a purpose-built, stripped down operating system designed to run services and to be managed remotely. Windows Server 2016 will offer the following installation options: Nano Server has been designed according to Zero-Footprint model and its size on disk is around 500MB. It has no GUI, binaries or metadata in the OS image, it sets up significant

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Getting Started with Nano Server

What is Nano Server ? Nano Server is a new installation option that became available with the arrival of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview. It is a purpose-built, stripped down operating system designed to run services and to be managed remotely. Windows Server 2016 will offer the following installation options: http://vaggeliskappas.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/NanoServer01-1024x638.png Nano Server has been designed according to Zero-Footprint model and its size on disk is around 500M

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Getting Started with Nano Server

What is Nano Server ? Nano Server is a new installation option that became available with the arrival of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview. It is a purpose-built, stripped down operating system designed to run services and to be managed remotely. Windows Server 2016 will offer the following installation options: Nano Server has been designed according to Zero-Footprint model and its size on disk is around 500MB. It has no GUI, binaries or metadata in the OS image, it sets up significantly

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The server principal already exists – Error 15025 troubleshooting

Πάντα υπάρχει κάτι που μπορεί να σε κάνει να χαμογελάσεις ευχάριστα ακόμα και αν είναι ένα μήνυμα λάθους!. Κάνοντας ένα τυπικό έλεγχο σε ένα παλιό Always On Availability Group διαπίστωσα ότι ένα domain group που είχε πρόσβαση στο ένα node δεν είχε πρόσβαση στο άλλο. Φυσικά αυτό θα έπρεπε να διορθωθεί καθώς σε περίπτωση που γίνονταν failover οι χρήστες του συγκεκριμένου domain group δεν θα είχαν πρόσβαση στο άλλο. Τι ποιο απλό από το να κάνει κάνεις αυτή την διαδικασία είτε μέσω SSMS είτε με τη

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