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Watch Live Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI Day – #MVPBuzz #Azure #AzureStack

by Kawula Dave | Oct 23, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

Azure large file shares now available: How and where to use them

by Rick Vanover | Oct 21, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

New Azure large file shares are now available for file shares up to 100 TiB.

Server AntiVirus Exclusions in Configuration Manager

by Émile Cabot | Oct 19, 2019 | Hyper-V, SCCM, System Center, Windows Server | 0 |

6 Things I’ve Learned about Azure Storage

by Rick Vanover | Oct 3, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

Here is a list of 6 things to know about Azure storage services from the Rickatron.

PowerShell your way to upgrading storage accounts

by Rick Vanover | Sep 24, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

In this blog post, Rickatron shows a simple PowerShell script that will upgrade storage accounts to V2.

The case of Low Disk Space caused by Goto Meeting – #MVPHour

by Cristal Kawula | Sep 17, 2019 | Scripts, Windows 10 | 0 |

The Case of Partitioned Networks after Networking Changes in #AzureStackHCI

by Kawula Dave | Sep 16, 2019 | HyperConverged, S2D | 0 |

The Case of the Other (Unplanned) Shutdown in #AzureStackHCI

by Kawula Dave | Sep 16, 2019 | HyperConverged, S2D, Windows Server | 1 |

Critical Patch Tuesday for 2-Node #AzureStackHCI Customers

by Kawula Dave | Sep 16, 2019 | HyperConverged, S2D, Uncategorized | 2 |

Creating Azure Advisor Alerts? Let’s Do It!

by Rick Vanover | Sep 13, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

In this post, Rickatron turns on an additional Azure Advisor service – alerts. See how they are set up.

The Case of Expanding a Full – Azure Stack HCI Nested Resilient Volume – #AzureStackHCI #S2D

by Kawula Dave | Sep 12, 2019 | S2D | 0 |

Azure Security Center Threat Protection: Visibility for Storage Account Access

by Rick Vanover | Sep 6, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

Azure Security Center provides additional visibility into many Azure services. In this post, Rickatron takes a look at how to handle Alerts.

How to: Set network access for storage accounts in Azure

by Rick Vanover | Sep 4, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

Setting network access (Internet and Azure VNET) for storage accounts is a good idea. In this post, the Rickatron outlines the how-to.

Microsoft Renews Calls for Password-less Authentication

by Kevin Kaminski | Aug 26, 2019 | Azure, Uncategorized, Windows 10, Windows Server | 0 |

Use Azure Storage Metrics to get Answers

by Rick Vanover | Aug 24, 2019 | Azure | 1 |

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]

by Cristal Kawula | Aug 23, 2019 | Veeam | 1 |

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

by Rick Vanover | Aug 19, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

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

by Rick Vanover | Aug 19, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

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

by Rick Vanover | Aug 16, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

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.