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Use Azure Storage Metrics to get Answers

Posted by Rick Vanover | Aug 24, 2019 | Azure |

Metrics are a great way to have quantification for Azure storage accounts. Rick Vanover tours this capability.

The Case of Failing Veeam Replicas – The RPC Function Call failed Function Name [InvokeTestConnection]

Posted by Cristal Kawula | Aug 23, 2019 | Veeam |

A quick post for you here tonight. I have been having some issues with some of my Replica jobs failing over the past few weeks with the following error message.

Failed to process task Error: The RPC server is unavailable.
RPC Function call failed. Function Name [InvokerTestConnection]

Enable Azure Security Center for Storage Accounts

Posted by Rick Vanover | Aug 19, 2019 | Azure |

If you saw the post last week about the Azure Blueprints and some others, you will know I’ve been focused a lot on modern Azure administration and security. One of the cornerstone pieces of content that Microsoft produces to aid security efforts in Azure is the Azure Security Best Practices PDF. It is linked in this Docs file that will provide a virtual springboard to many security resources. In many of the resources, a consistent theme is to consider Azure Security Center. I have decided to enable this for my storage accounts and will share here with you the...

Thinking About Upgrading Azure Storage Account Configuration Options? Read This.

Posted by Rick Vanover | Aug 19, 2019 | Azure |

Azure releases new services all the time. Sometimes, individual services have new versions and upgrades. Let’s have Rick walk through an upgrade from v1 to v2 of general purpose storage account.

Tips to correctly delete Azure resource groups

Posted by Rick Vanover | Aug 16, 2019 | Azure |

Be sure when you are deleting a resource group – you are doing the right thing. It’s better to be sure than have unused resource groups in the Azure console.