Tag Archives: Azure

Designing and Implementing a Modern Data Architecture on Azure Cloud.

I just completed work on the digital transformation, design, development, and delivery of a cloud native data solution for one of the biggest professional sports organizations in north America. In this post, I want to share some thoughts on the … Continue reading

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Thoughts on the Meltdown and Spectre Processor Vulnerabilities.

Summary: A new class of security vulnerabilities referred to as “Speculative execution side-channel attacks” also known as “Meltdown and Spectre” were publicly disclosed by Cyber security researchers this week. Given the gravity of these flaws, many concerns have been rightly … Continue reading

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Remove Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) from a WS2012 R2 with PowerShell.

I decided to tear down my Azure Lab IaaS and ASR infrastructure and rebuild it. The process involves removing the ASR configurations, Recovery Vaults, S2S VPNs, VNets and Azure VM running as a Azure based Domain controller for resilience with … Continue reading

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Configuring Azure Site to Site VPN to my On-Premise Infrastructure using the Azure Classic Portal.

I’ve been exploring the requirements for extending my on premise infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure IaaS public cloud. Azure Site to Site IPsec VPN is a key part of achieving that objective.There are two deployment models in Azure; the Azure … Continue reading

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Force Disable of Azure Replication from Orphaned On Premise Hyper-V Virtual Machine.

After successfully stopping and removing protection for one of my replica virtual machines in Azure Site Recovery, I observed that the on premise primary virtual machine replication status changed to a failed state. This would be normal behavior considering that … Continue reading

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