Automate Disk initialization on VM with Azure Desired State Configuration

A common scenario is that Azure VMs are being provisioned with some extra disks attached, those disks then needs to be initialized before use. Doing that for more than one server becomes time consuming so it needs to be automated. I recently ran across this need again and recall solving it with DSC, of course … Read more

Speaker at Experts Live Netherlands 2018, Azure, Big Data etc.

First time speaker @ExpertsliveNL, honored to have been selected and looking forward to it! Next week on Tuesday 19/6 in Ede, Netherlands 16:15-17:15 i will be holding a session covering what i learned engaging in an early adoption of HDInsight, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Lake Analytics, some OSS components and the vision to build … Read more