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Faster & Bigger Azure Backup for Azure VMs

March 21, 2018 // 3 Comments

Azure Backup recently rolled out an update to their service for protecting Azure VMs to improve backup speed, restore performance, and to add support for larger disks. Support for Large Disks Azure Backup didn’t support disks that were larger than 1 TiB (1 TB is the marketing measure of 1000 GB, [...]

Windows Server 2019 Announced for H2 2018

March 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

Last night, Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2019 would be released, generally available, in the second half of 2018. I suspect that the big bash will be Ignite in Orlando at the end of September, possibly with a release that week, but maybe in October – that’s been the pattern lately. [...]

Amsterdam – Starting Azure Infrastructure Course

January 22, 2018 // 4 Comments

I am happy to announce that our Cloud Mechanix venture is bringing my custom-written Starting Azure Infrastructure course to Amsterdam on April 19-20. This course is intended for IT professionals and developers that wish to start working with or improve their knowledge of Azure virtual machines. [...]

I Am Running My “Starting Azure Infrastructure” Course in London on Feb 22/23

November 16, 2017 // 7 Comments

I am delighted to announce the dates of the first delivery of my own bespoke Azure training in London, UK, on February 21st and 22nd. All the details can be found here. In my day job, I have been teaching Irish Microsoft partners about Azure for the past three years, using training materials that I [...]

Azure Backup MARS Agent System State Support is GA

November 13, 2017 // 1 Comment

Microsoft announced last week that they made support for backing up system state using the MARS agent generally available. System State backup was one of those “I must have this” features that I’ve been hearing about for 3+ years. Today it’s there – update your version of the MARS agent [...]

Protect Your Data With Microsoft Azure Backup

September 28, 2017 // 1 Comment

Speakers: Vijay Tandra Sistla, Principal PM Manager Aruna Somendra, Senior Program Manager Aruna is first to speak. It’s a demo-packed session. There was another session on AB during the week – that’s probably worth watching as well. All the attendees are from diverse backgrounds, and we have [...]

Restore An Azure VM to an Availability Set From Azure Backup in the Azure Portal

September 12, 2017 // 1 Comment

Microsoft has shared how to restore an Azure VM to an availability set using PowerShell from Azure Backup. It’s nasty-hard looking PowerShell, and my problem with examples of VM creation using PowerShell is that they’re never feature complete. While writing some Azure VM training recently, I [...]

Create a New VM From An Existing Managed Disk

September 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

In previous posts I have shown how to restore the disks of a VM to a storage account and how to create managed disks from those VHD blobs. In this post, I will show how to create a new VM from a managed disk. When these 3 steps are done together, this is an easy way to restore an Azure virtual [...]

Create an Azure Managed Disk from a VHD Blob

September 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

This post will show you how to create a managed disk from a VHD blob file, such as one you’ve uploaded or restored from a virtual machine backup. In my example, I have restored the virtual hard disks of an Azure VM to a storage account called aidanfinnrestore. I am going to create a new managed [...]

Restore an Azure Virtual Machine’s Hard Disks

September 7, 2017 // 2 Comments

In this post, I’ll show you how to restore just the disks of an Azure virtual machine. This is useful if you want to restore a virtual machine to an availability set, or restore it as a different series/size. Restoring to Availability Sets For some reason that I do not know, we cannot restore a [...]

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Aidan Finn, IT Pro

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