There is more than a few blog posts around about how to use the Azure DevOps agent in a container (and by extension Kubernetes), there are even a handful of examples for using an Entra Application Registrations or Workload Identies that miss out on a critical step – the ‘exit’ …
The Azure VPN Gateway supports a variety of connection methods for Point to Site VPN’s, one of the more interesting options that came out not too long ago is support for OpenVPN which is compelling as it ticks off a lot of boxes in terms of support such as: Tunnels …
Microsoft released an updated version of the SQL Server Connector for Microsoft Azure Key Vault on 26/2/2018 (version 15.0.300.96) which seemed to be unable to connect to the Key Vault on existing or new SQL Servers. Typically you run this first step in creating the Asymmetric Key CREATE ASYMMETRIC KEY SAM_TDE FROM …
There is a lot of information scattered around different blogs and Microsoft documentation about running SQL Availability Groups across multiple sites for DR or reporting requirements, this post outlines how to get a 3 node cluster working again when you have to failover to your DR site. Assumptions: Failover …
The long overdue update to Azure’s Recovery Vault to support ARM virtual machines has finally arrived. With it are some nice changes to how you backup and recover your VMs, however as is typical with Azure on release of a new or updated feature the documentation is not the best! We’ve …
The search for how to do some of what is below was one of the main reasons I started thinking about writing a technical blog… On to the interesting stuff! First up – check your LUNs! If you have already added data disks via the portal you should check what …