How to run a script when a Resource Group fails over to the passive node of a...
Having recently scripted the Cluster WMI Namespace (for fun) and blogged about it with my Cluster WMI Notifications post, I saw an opportunity to put that experience into practice here. We had a 2 node...
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Certain icons do not appear the first time you open Control Panel on Windows 7
I was over at the NTDebugging blog the other day and while browsing through the posts, I came across this one, written quite brilliantly by Matt Burrough Control Panel Policy and the Missing Icon...
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Cluster service fails to start on Windows Server 2008 SP2, cluster.log...
It’s been a while since my last post – not due to the dearth of interesting issues to blog about, rather, there have been TOO many issues, interesting and otherwise. Too many issues == too much work!...
View ArticleField, Here I Come!
Now and again, a colleague or customer points to my blog, having run into one of the issues I’ve described in a post. It’s at these times that I remember I have a blog! My last post was over two years...
View ArticleMy First (Useful) PowerShell Script!
Heard of PowerShell? No? Just Kidding! Even if you run your IT department under a rock or on Mars, you’ve heard of PowerShell – It’s that ubiquitous! I’ve always been interested in picking it up as a...
View ArticleHow to hot-add a Shared VHDX
Shared VHDX, a new feature in Windows Server 2012 R2, is a boon for administrators wanting to create a Failover Cluster running in Hyper-V virtual machines. Create a VHDX, attach it to the SCSI...
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Just enough BGP to get your Azure dual-redundancy, active-active VPN gateways...
I'd last dabbled in Azure Site to Site (S2S) VPN or Virtual Network Gateways when the configuration was straightforward, but the feature-set was lacking. Given an opportunity to get back into...
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PowerShell script to determine if an IP Range is part of the Azure Datacenter...
Microsoft publishes an XML document that contains the IP address ranges (including Compute, SQL and Storage ranges) used in the Microsoft Azure Datacenters. An updated file is posted weekly which...
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How to study for the “70-535: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions”...
Moving at a pace unthinkable a few years ago, Azure continues to grow leaps and bounds as the Cloud platform of choice for many. My own journey started four and a half years ago, transitioning from...
View ArticleSynchronously copy all managed disks of an Azure Virtual Machine to Azure...
There are many different ways to copy an Azure Virtual Machine's managed disks to different Azure regions for the purpose of creating images local to that region. My experience with AzCopy --sync-copy...
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