The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Tag: Azure

  • Microsoft Learn

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    If you find yourself here because you searched on “Microsoft Learn” because you heard about it at a conference or on a podcast or somewhere, you’re in the right place. Microsoft Learn is a site that Microsoft has been slowly but surely growing over the past few years, putting together technical documentation to help you…

  • Azure Shared Disks are coming!!!

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    Do you still have a need or desire to continue to run your SharePoint environment in an on-premises data center so that you can have them luxury of Always On Availability Groups with SQL Server? Well… now you can really take that workload to the cloud (with some minor caveats) once Microsoft fully goes GA…

  • Azure: Public Preview of Serial Console

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    I have to say that this is crazy that Microsoft Azure now supports a Serial Console for Virtual Machines (at least in Public Preview).  Check out the blog entry over here – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-serial-console/ I decided to give it a little try to see more and it works like a champ. Very cool to see this capability…

  • Favorite Podcasts… 2017 List

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    It’s interesting to look back at the past year and realize that I haven’t really been listening to all that many podcasts – whether professionally or personally. There are a few that are epic that should be on everyone’s queues to include: RadioLab – http://www.radiolab.org Direct Current – https://energy.gov/podcasts/direct-current-energygov-podcast Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History – http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/…

  • Azure’s Access Control Services Retiring

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    If you’ve been working with Azure for a while you may have come across a need to make use of Azure’s Access Control Services. This service offering or capability effectively allowed developers to create something that was hosted on Azure but have authentication and authorization to be completed performed outside of the application that a…

  • Office 365 Group Management and Auto-Expiration Public Preview

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    If you’ve been working with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, you probably remember a utility that was made available as a part of SharePoint Server 2003 to automatically delete old site collections that hadn’t been worked with in a while. This was an incredibly helpful utility for system administrators that were watching their SharePoint systems…

  • Azure QuickStart Templates

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    If you’re like me you prefer to automate things as much as possible. In some instances that means using desired state configuration, in other instances it’s launching a series of PowerShell scripts. This saves time and helps to ensure a configuration that’s repeatable and easy to kick off without a ton of work – yes…

  • Northern Virginia Code Camp 2015

    Northern Virginia Code Camp 2015

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    If you’re looking to learn a bit more about some of the hottest technologies being used, check out the Northern Virginia Code Camp taking place on 18 April 2015 at the Reston Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA.

  • Microsoft Azure – PowerShell March 2015 Update

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    Without much fanfare, the Azure PowerShell commandlets have been updated as of 31 March 2015 to version 0.8.16. More pertaining to the update can be read here: – https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/releases/tag/v0.8.16-March2015 If you’ve been watching the Azure Content repo on GitHub you probably noticed a ton of things pertaining to HDInsight being committed. Well, you guessed it,…

  • Brewery FM – Episode 7 – Delving About Delve… Again

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    This week has been a little hectic between work, life and community, but somehow Scott Hoag and I were still able to get together for an hour and record another session of Brewery.fm. In this weeks episode, we call out Tim Ferro again – mostly because he asked us for some thoughts on an announcement…