Reading Time: 2 minutesThe other day I was setting up Sophos Central and wanted to connect it to my Azure Active Directory. This would allow me to quickly find any unprotected VM’s I have running in Azure. To get Sophos Central to connect I needed to find my Azure Active Directory Tenant ID. Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf like me you have been using Azure for some time you may have some servers still running with unmanaged disks. On the 2nd August 2018, Microsoft announced the ability to migrate unmanaged disks to managed disks using the Azure portal. You have been able to convert unmanaged disks to Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been creating some CNAME records on one of my domain registers DNS portal. They had recently migrated to a new portal to make things “easier”. This has caused a lot of issues, the last issue I had was being unable to create CNAMES with a – in Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently I have been improving the security of my Azure subscriptions. I wanted to protect some resources from accidental deletion and I also want to protect some resources like NSG’s from accidental changes. To accomplish this I decided to use Azure Locks. Azure Locks come in two different levels, CanNotDelete and ReadOnly. Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhilst doing some daily Azure Administration I came across an error on one of my App Services. The App service in question uses vNet Integration and the certificate for the virtual network had become out of sync. I am not 100% sure how this happened, but there was an issue Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a previous blog, which you can read here, I showed you how to create an Azure file share. So now it’s about time I did a guide on how to actually back up the Azure file share. Below I will walk through the steps you need to take to Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have some Virtual Machines running in Azure that do not need to be on all the time. In fact, they are just training machines. I needed a way to stop and start the VMs out of business hours without having to do it manually. After some research I came Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo what is vNet peering? Well, basically it is a way to connect two vNets over the backbone of Azure’s network rather than creating an Azure VPN Gateway between the two. Some good points about using vNet peering over a Gateway is the cost saving, bandwidth limitations and latency. vNet Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesBelow you will find a list of what is going to be tested in the new AZ-102 Azure Administrator exam and a link to a resource that I think will help you learn and pass the exam. It is a work in progress at the moment and I will keep Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft inspire has been taking place in Las Vegas and during the keynote, Microsoft announced 3 new Azure certifications. One for Azure Developers, one for Azure Administrators, and one for Azure Architects. Microsoft has actually released the beta exams for the Azure Administrator certificate. You can read more about them Read more