Reading Time: < 1 minute Last year’s ebook, SysAdmin Horror Stories Vol1 by Altaro, highlighted some of SysAdmins’ funniest and most horrifying stories. It proved so successful, that Altaro decided to produce a second edition this year: they’ve gathered some more real-life stories to share with you, that are both funny and horrific! We all Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently whilst looking at the Azure portal I came across a new section on the VM blade that I have not seen before, or I have and forgot about it. This section is called Automation. Under here you have the option to export the arm template for your virtual machine, Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you are one of the many, many IT admins who were asked to effectively transition a whole workforce to remote working overnight due to impact of COVID-19, you will no doubt also have been concerned about the security implications of doing so. One of the most powerful and effective Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute A lot of people have been asking me for a study guide for the new Azure Exams. I started with the AZ-104 (Microsoft Azure Administrator). https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/02/study-resources-for-the-az-104-microsoft-certified-azure-administrator/ and then the AZ-303 (Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies) Study resources for the AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies exam – Pixel Robots. (pixelrobots.co.uk) and now Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Update: This has now gone to GA and you do not need to register the preview features. I am sure like me, you have at least one Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Cluster that does not need to be on all the time, probably a development cluster. Before now, you have Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog post is part of a series of blog posts for Azure Back to school https://azurebacktoschool.tech by Dwayne Natwick. For the whole of September different community members will be creating a blog post or video to about Azure. Mine as you can tell from the heading is about Azure Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The European Cloud Conference MICROSOFT AZURE VIRTUAL TUTORIAL SERIES End of Summer Sale is now on! Access 8 FULL-DAY AZURE VIRTUAL TUTORIALS throughout October [Levels 300-400] without having to spend time or money on travel. BOOK YOUR END OF SUMMER SALE TICKETS TODAY at the exceptional price of €195 per tutorial! This is a limited offer which ends on Monday Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute For a long time now when using Microsoft Azure Icons in your architecture diagrams it took some time to find the right ones sometimes having to use an older icon as you could not find the right one. Luckily in July 2020 Microsoft decided to release the new Azure icons Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The European Cloud Conference invite you to attend ‘Modernising to Cloud’ a free virtual event focused on Microsoft Azure Migration with the Experts taking place on Thursday August 20th, [10.00-12.30 CEST]. Access expert knowledge and insights which will help expedite your own organization migration planning, avoid migration pitfalls, and remove the Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The other day I was checking out feedspot.com‘s top Azure blogs to follow and noticed that I am now in the #4 spot, well technically #5 but the Official Azure blog is in the #1 spot, so I am not counting that. 🙂 I would like to say thank you Read more…