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How to Delete a Node from a Node Pool in AKS (Preview)

Pixel Robots. — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:13:46 +0000

Reading Time: < 1 minuteManaging your AKS clusters efficiently is crucial, especially when dealing with problematic nodes or reducing the number of deallocated nodes. With the AKS node deletion feature in preview, you can now remove specific VMs without switching the node pool state. Steps to Remove Specific VMs in AKS First you need Read more

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Monitor your servers available disk space using Azure Log Analytics

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:07:02 +0000

Reading Time: 4 minutesYou may have seen some of my previous blog posts about monitoring your servers using Azure Log Analytics. If not you can find them at https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-cpu-usage-using-azure-log-analytics/. In this post, I am going to focus on using Azure Log Analytics to monitor your servers disk space. In fact, I am going Read more

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Monitor your servers CPU usage using Azure Log Analytics

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:24:31 +0000

Reading Time: 4 minutesAt one of my Azure user groups, someone asked me about monitoring servers using Azure. So I thought perhaps more people would like to know this too, hence this blog post. This post will focus on monitoring CPU usage. I will go through the query I use and will show Read more

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What Are Hyper-V Virtual Machine Groups And How Do I Create Them?

Pixel Robots. — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:00:08 +0000

Reading Time: 3 minutesWith Windows Server 2016 we have some cool new features within Hyper-V. One of them are Hyper-V Virtual Machine Groups. In this post I am going to explain what Virtual Machine Groups are and how to create them. What are Hyper-V Virtual Machine Groups? First thing to note is that Read more

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Quick Step by Step Guide: Set Active Directory To “Use notify” Replication

Pixel Robots. — Tue, 30 May 2017 20:02:44 +0000

Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I have needed to configure an Active Directory to replicate changes between sites straight away. They had everything set to replicate at the default 15 minutes but this was not quick enough due to a dispersed helpdesk. The best way to do this is to enable Use Notify replication. Read more

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Step by Step guide to migrating FSMO Roles from Windows Server 2012 r2 to Windows Server 2016

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:00:18 +0000

Reading Time: 3 minutesNow Windows Server 2016 has been out for a few months I have decided to update my lab Domain to 2016 forest functional level. But first I need to migrate the FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operation) Roles to my new Windows Server 2016 Domain Controllers. In this Step by Step Read more

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Step by Step guide to Moving an Active Directory Database and Log files

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:36:33 +0000

Reading Time: 3 minutesSometimes, as a sysadmin you may need to move the Active Directory database and / or log files from one location to another. This may be due to your Domain Controller running out of space. The location you choose to move the files to may be a different folder or Read more

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Step by Step guide to setting up an Active Directory Forest and adding additional DC’s on Windows 2016 with PowerShell

Pixel Robots. — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:31:25 +0000

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat is new in Active Directory on Server 2016? We have a few new features to play with in Windows Server 2016 regarding Active Directory. Some of them being time-based group membership, privileged access management, and Microsoft Passport to name a few. I am not going to go into too Read more

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Step by Step Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA)

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:16:09 +0000

Reading Time: 2 minutesAutomatic Virtual Machine Activation was added into Windows Server 2012 R2. It allows you to activate your VM’s without using a KMS Server or using MAK Keys and you do not require an internet connection either! The VM’s activate against the host Hyper-V server. Using this method the Guests activation Read more

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Updated: Step by Step – Creating a Cloud Witness

Pixel Robots. — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:38:38 +0000

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat is Cloud Witness? Cloud Witness is a new type of Failover Witness Quorum Witness that uses Microsoft Azure blob storage to read/write a blob file which is then used as an arbitration point in case of split-brain resolution. There are significant benefits with using a Cloud Witness. Uses Microsoft Read more

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