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We have had some tough time backing up virtual machines based out of customized VHD and running OS prior to Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, The reason being, Azure Virtual Machine Guest agent does is not supported in any of these OS, i.e. Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows XP, etc. (You might wonder is it …
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Automation | VM Tags Creation Overview Tagcreation.ps1 is a PowerShell script to create tags for all VMs provided in the input csv, Azure tag is an important feature that helps you to identify the deviation and make them standard. Also you can make use of tags in the Azure automation runbook to customise many automation …
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Automation | VM Disk Attachment Overview Disk_attach.ps1 is a PowerShell script to attach data disks for all VMs provided in the input csv. The following guide assumes that the user has basic knowledge of using Windows and PowerShell. Although some familiarity with the Azure Portal would be beneficial, it is absolutely not necessary, as a …
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This script helps to expand an Azure VM OS disk size. We normally can do this from the Azure Portal after we shut down the VM. However, some of the VMs running custom VHD based out of Windows Server 2003, we are not able to find the option to specify os disk size even …
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A tricky task with creating an Azure ARM Virtual machine specially from an existing VHD. We had immense trouble getting this right for a project, until we managed to find the right script to be used for the purpose. There are 2 scenarios in which you will create a Virtual Machine from a VHD …
A script we have developed for creation of the tags for azure VM. We use an input file to update the tags and as a test, I had done it with upto 7 tags, however, you can have a maximum of 15 tags assigned to the resources in Azure. This script however, is used to …
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We had a requirement from one of the teams to deploy a virtual machine with multiple NIC associated with a single Virtual Machine. The Azure portal does not provide any option to either associate a NIC ( Network Interface Card) to a Virtual Machine nor does it allow us to associate or create a Virtual …
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We were asked to come up with a guide on how to create NSG rule as part of the implementation for a client. This will include a script used to set these instead of creating them via the Azure Portal. One of the many documents we had to come up but was useful. [embeddoc …
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We had a request to create a script which will take care of deleting a Virtual Machine from Azure subscription and perform the clean up of all the associated objects as a deleting the virtual machine from the azure portal will remove the VM object alone and does not delete the disks, vNICs, etc. We …
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ver Migrating a SQL Server database to Azure SQL PaaS Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL PaaS service are compatible with each other, meaning that a database can be moved from a SQL server running on a physical or virtual machine to Azure SQL service and vice versa. Prerequisites and Constraints However, there are some …
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