Michael, Author at AzureFabric

Azure Handbook and Architecture resources

2015-08-182015-08-18 by Michael

This book is useful to get insight and a summation of what Azure is about, what you can use it for and why Azure is the most complete cloud. The book is not detailed about “how to” but most FAQs you have this book should be able to answer, for example. *Limitations *Security *Pricing *Support … Read more

Getting all Azure VMs RDP files

2015-08-122015-08-12 by Michael

Once you have deployed Azure VM: s and they are running some workloads you might need to RDP to them, instead of using any of the portals and have several click steps before getting the RDP file here are some useful scripts I have been using. If you just need single RDP file the Get-AzureRemoteDesktopFile … Read more

Step-by-Step Documenting your Azure VMs

2015-08-122015-08-12 by Michael

The short version Open Azure PowerShell Select the subscription you want to document Run this one-liner Get-AzureVM | ForEach-Object { $vm = $_.name ; Write-Output “$vm VM Properties” ; Write-Output “—————” ; Format-List -InputObject $_ -Property * ; Write-Output “$vm VM Endpoints” ; Write-Output “—————” ; Get-AzureEndpoint -VM $_ ; Write-Output “$vm Virtual … Read more

All Sysinternals tools in OneDrive

2015-08-112022-04-21 by Michael

This post is a Power Tip J Quick guide Download synctools and extract the synctools.exe file to a OneDrive folder Run synctools.exe from a command line When updates are to be expected just run the tool again and it will updated all tools to latest version “Guide below has the extra step of downloading the … Read more

How to read the Azure documentation pages

2015-08-072015-08-07 by Michael

As mentioned in previous post it might feel like you have to invest some time to get a grip around Azure and browsing around for guides gives you contradicting information due to the rapid deployment of new features and functions to Azure. Focusing on the IaaS part of Azure I started to write a framework … Read more

Learning Microsoft Azure

2015-08-062015-08-06 by Michael

In my previous post I tried to ease up the search for information but if you are committed to learn Microsoft Azure there are more structured ways, besides costly official courses from training partners. Here is a short list of great content for learning that you can spend many hours on (instead of watching some … Read more

My top 3 tips for technical information searching about Azure

2015-08-062015-08-06 by Michael

If you are new to Azure you probably will start with deploying a VM and trying out the functions, but it will take a lot of trying out to get a full picture and getting comfortable with the Basics of Azure. In a big picture, the IaaS offering in Azure is rather simple to understand … Read more