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New Azure Advisor Recommendations Category: Operational Excellence

Nov 14, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

In this post, Rickatron outlines a new Azure Advisor category – Operational Excellence.

How to Interpret Azure Security Alerts for Azure Storage Accounts

Nov 2, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

Azure Security Center alerts are a great way to provide that extra insight. In this post, Rickatron investigates Azure Security Alerts for Storage Accounts.

How and Why to Install Azure Storage Explorer

Oct 29, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

The Azure Storage Explorer desktop tool is a must-have for focused day-to-day usage of Azure Storage services.

The Case of Unable to connect to Windows 2008 R2 Servers via Windows Admin Center #MVPHour

Oct 27, 2019 | Windows Admin Center | 0 |

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I am busy working away at my Windows Server 2019 Migration Labs and added...

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

Oct 23, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

Hey there Checkyourlogs Fans, Do we have an awesome day lined up for you? Today, we are...

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

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

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

One of the reasons why I really like System Center Endpoint Protection is its ease of management....

6 Things I’ve Learned about Azure Storage

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

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

Sep 17, 2019 | Scripts, Windows 10 | 0 |

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Usually, I would post about more technical topics, but this one is...

The Case of Partitioned Networks after Networking Changes in #AzureStackHCI

Sep 16, 2019 | HyperConverged, S2D | 0 |

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, First off if you haven’t had a chance make sure you come and join us...

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

Sep 16, 2019 | HyperConverged, S2D, Windows Server | 1 |

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I was working with a customer, and I hit a known bug in Windows...

Critical Patch Tuesday for 2-Node #AzureStackHCI Customers

Sep 16, 2019 | HyperConverged, S2D, Uncategorized | 2 |

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, It is that time of the month again for patching our Production Clusters....

Creating Azure Advisor Alerts? Let’s Do It!

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

Sep 12, 2019 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I had a call from a customer that had a full volume on one of their...

Azure Security Center Threat Protection: Visibility for Storage Account Access

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

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

Aug 26, 2019 | Azure, Uncategorized, Windows 10, Windows Server | 0 |

Microsoft recently released a whitepaper on password-less authentication, and it presents a good...

Use Azure Storage Metrics to get Answers

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]

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

Aug 19, 2019 | Azure | 0 |

If you saw the post last week about the Azure Blueprints and some others, you will know I’ve been...

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

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

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.