IaaS Archives - Thomas Maurer

Hotpatching for Windows Server VMs on Azure with Desktop Experience

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:32:32 +0000

This week Microsoft announced the the General Availability of Hotpatching on Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition VMs with Desktop Experience. Back in March 2021 Hotpatch for Windows Server on Azure virtual machines were introduced for Windows Server Azure Edition Core server, now since this week you can also deploy and use hotpatching with Windows …

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Azure Advisor: How to Improve performance, security, and reliability of your Azure VMs

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 07:33:42 +0000

Running virtual machines in Azure is great. However, there are a lot of things you need to think about to improve performance, security, and reliability. Your cloud environment is also constantly changing, so you will need to check your Azure VMs from time to time. Luckily, there is a service called Azure Advisor which is a personalized cloud …

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Manage updates and patches for your Azure VMs

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:11:25 +0000

In this week’s Azure tip video we are going to have a look at how to manage updates and patches for your Azure virtual machines (VMs). After watching this video, you’ll be able to enable Azure Update Management, deploy updates, review an update assessment, and manage updates for your Azure VMs. You can use Update …

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Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series – RFC

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 07:10:50 +0000

This week in our Azure Stack Hub Partner solution video series, I am going to introduce you to Azure Stack Hub Partner RFC. RFC is a strong partner focusing on offering a range of hosted services, managed services, and consultancy to its customers. They partner with a number of other ISVs to offer a complete …

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How to Run Scripts in your Azure VM using Run Command

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:45:59 +0000

You can access your Azure IaaS virtual machine (VM) in multiple ways like SSH or RDP, depending on your operating system and configuration. However, if you have issues with the RDP or SSH network configuration, you need to have a way to troubleshoot your virtual machine (VM). Luckily Azure offers you different management tools to …

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Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series – myCloudDoor

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:21:24 +0000

Together with the Azure Stack Hub team, I am on a journey to explore the ways our customers and partners use, deploy, manage, and build solutions on the Azure Stack Hub platform. Today, Tiberiu and I had the chance to speak to myCloudDoor. MyCloudDoor is an Azure Stack Hub partner and Preferred SI that focused …

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Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series – Salt

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 05:01:39 +0000

Together with the Tiberiu Radu (Azure Stack Hub PM @rctibi), we created a new Azure Stack Hub Partner solution video series to show how our customers and partners use Azure Stack Hub in their Hybrid Cloud environment. In this series, as we will meet customers that are deploying Azure Stack Hub for their own internal …

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Automanage for Azure virtual machines

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 06:43:13 +0000

For me, one of the most impressive announcements at Microsoft Ignite, next to many of the Azure Arc and Azure Stack announcements, was the announcement of the Azure Automanage for virtual machines (VMs) public preview. As you know, Microsoft Azure offers many management services for Azure virtual machines (VMs). However, finding and configured these services …

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Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series – Datacom

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 06:15:21 +0000

Together with the Azure Stack Hub team, we are starting a journey to explore the ways our customers and partners use, deploy, manage, and build solutions on the Azure Stack Hub platform. Together with the Tiberiu Radu (Azure Stack Hub PM @rctibi), we created a new Azure Stack Hub Partner solution video series to show …

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How to configure Azure Automatic VM guest OS patching

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:46:07 +0000

If you want to keep your Azure virtual machines (VMs) up-to-date, then there is a service called Azure Update Management, which helps you to manage updates on your Azure VM guest operating system. However, this needed some additional planning and configuration. To make patching of your Azure virtual machines (VMs) easier, there is a new …

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