Azure (22)

Application Insights

Application Insights is an Azure-based service that allows web developers and the alike monitor and detect performance issues with their web platforms. I will provide an example to monitor a web app built on a traditional Windows Server. You can analyze the follow telemetry: To…

Automate login for Azure PowerShell

Introduction To automate logging into an Azure tenancy for PowerShell scripts, you would need to utilize a service account that doesn't have Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) enabled; we all know there are weaknesses to this but there are ways to mitigate the risks, including: Even limiting access this…

Azure Migrate: Server Migration

Azure Migrate: Server Migration allows you to migrate both physical and virtual machines from either VMware and Hyper-V platforms on premise into Azure. There are three parts to this; creating a migrate project in Azure, creating an Azure Site Recovery (ASR) host on site to…

Backup an unsupported Azure Windows VM

Before Azure Backup supported Windows Server 2008 guests early March 2020, not to be confused with 2008 R2 SP1, you couldn’t create an application consistent backup using the Recovery Services vault (RSV); essentially no live backups. Thankfully this isn’t a problem for 2008 guests anymore,…

Convert a Hyper-V Gen2 VM to Gen1

More often than not there wouldn't need to be a need to convert a Gen2 VM down to a Gen1 VM. The exceptions to this would be downgrading a version of Hyper-V from Windows Server 2012 to 2008 R2; the chances of this are quite…