Server Archives - Thomas Maurer

Move Azure Arc-enabled Server to a different resource group or subscription

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:38:44 +0000

This is just a quick post on how you can change and move your Azure Arc-enabled server to a different resource group or subscription. To do this, you can use the Azure PowerShell module and the Move-AzResource cmdlet. You can find more about the Move-AzResource cmdlet on Microsoft Learn. The Move-AzResource cmdlet moves existing resources to a …

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Create an Azure Arc Service Principal with longer expiration date using PowerShell

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:43:25 +0000

When you are onboarding at scale of Azure Arc enabled servers or Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters, you want to use service principals for automated authentication during the onboarding process for Azure Arc resources. Microsoft provides you with an option in the Azure portal to create that service principal. When you use this, you can set …

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Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled Servers Survey 2022

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 08:18:04 +0000

We want to learn from you about hybrid server management, so the team build a Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled servers survey 2022. Give us your thoughts on hybrid server management with Azure Arc! Take the survey at https://aka.ms/ArcServersSurveyLI for a chance to win a $300 virtual gift card! This survey asks about your experience with trying, using, and/or …

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Run PowerShell Scripts with Azure Automation Hybrid Workers on-premises using Azure Arc

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 08:08:57 +0000

If you want to automate your on-premises environment Azure Arc enabled Server is a great offering to onboard Azure management services such as Azure Monitor, Defender for Cloud, and many others. One of the integrations is with Azure Automation Hybrid Worker. This allows you to run Azure Automation PowerShell or Phyton runbooks on-premises directly on …

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Manage Arc-enabled Windows Server with Windows Admin Center in the Azure Portal

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 05:41:29 +0000

With a new feature called Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal, you can now securely manage your Windows Server machines running as an Azure virtual machine (VM) or running on-premises with Azure Arc, directly from the Azure portal. Azure provides a lot of different management tools to manage your virtual machines or physical servers …

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Webinar: Windows Server Management, Security and Monitoring

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:54:00 +0000

I am happy to let you know that we are planning a Microsoft free online webinar for Windows Server Management, Security and Monitoring on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 10:00 AM–11:00 AM Pacific Time. Customers are choosing a hybrid and multi-cloud approach to digitally transform their businesses. If you have on-premises Windows Server workloads, you can now …

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Book: Azure Arc-Enabled Kubernetes and Servers: Extending Hyperscale Cloud Management to Your Datacenter

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:22:32 +0000

I know many of you want to learn more about Azure Arc and how you can leverage the Azure management and control plane for your hybrid and multicloud environments. Microsoft MVPs and Azure experts Steve Buchanan and John Joyner have authored a book about Azure Arc which I would highly recommend. The Azure Arc-Enabled Kubernetes …

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Azure Arc Jumpstart Lightning Azure Arc-enabled servers metadata tags with Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:02:25 +0000

I am happy to let you know that I was able to join as a guest on Lior Kamrat video series called Azure Arc Jumpstart Lightning. In this Azure Arc Jumpstart Lightning video, I am talking about multicloud server management and how you can store metadata information in Azure Tags from AWS and GCP virtual …

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Azure Arc enabled Server – Store AWS instance metadata as Azure tag

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:57:27 +0000

If you want to onboard an AWS EC2 instance (virtual machine) to Azure using Azure Arc for multicloud management, you might want to store some of the AWS instances metadata as Azure tags for your Azure Arc enabled server. One of the easiest ways is to set these tags during the onboarding process of an …

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Azure Webinar: Bring Cloud Value to Your Windows Server Anywhere

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 05:18:00 +0000

Windows Server and Azure are great platforms for your applications, and it gets even better when you combine them in a hybrid cloud environment. In the upcoming Azure webinar, we will have a look at how you can bring more value to your Windows Servers running in Azure, on-premsies, at the edge, and other cloud …

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