Monthly Archive: March 2015
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Marcus
31st March 2015
This is an error I’ve seen quite a few times. Every time I see the error it takes me a while to remember what the issue is, hopefully this post will help me remember one of the causes. I had successfully authenticated to my Azure Subscription using Add-AzureAccount and ran the following to create a new Site Recovery Vault: The error returned was: New-AzureSiteRecoveryVault : Operation failed. ClientRequestId: ForbiddenError: The subscription is not entitled to use the resource At line:1 char:2 + New-AzureSiteRecoveryVault -Location $Region -Name “RecoveryVault” + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : CloseError: (:) [New-AzureSiteRecoveryVault], SerializationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.RecoveryServices.CreateAzureSiteRecoveryVault…
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Marcus
27th March 2015
We use Azure Site Recovery for both protecting customer VMs and as a migration tool when moving VMs to Microsoft Azure. There have been a number of hoops to jump through to ensure a VM can replicate. On of which is we have come across a few, customer VMs with operating system disks larger than 127GB. Generally not a lot more, but just a bit larger. Most commonly this is RDS servers with a lot of user profile data, – now we use technologies such as user profile disks, but this wasn’t around when these VMs were created. Microsoft announced…
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Marcus
27th March 2015
Microsoft announced the launch of Azure VM backup earlier this week: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/03/26/azure-backup-announcing-support-for-backup-of-azure-iaas-vms/ It is a feature that many of us have been waiting for so decided to give it a try on a small deployment I am currently working on. The steps below outline what I did to configure Azure Backup and some of the issues encountered. I have included steps and screenshots as there doesn’t seem to be much documentation around and hopefully they can be used to see what the process is before diving in head first. Creating a backup vault This is done exactly the same way as we…
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Marcus
25th March 2015
If you are running Virtual Machines on Microsoft Azure and want to save some cash (or make your MSDN allowance last longer) it is possible to use Azure Automation to schedule the shutdown (and start-up) of Virtual Machines. This is great if you are carrying out testing on Azure and like me often forget to shut your VMs down. Until recently Azure Automation could only be configured via the portal, but in February new Azure Automation PowerShell commands were released: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/18/announcing-full-powershell-cmdlet-support-for-azure-automation/ Rather than having to click lots of times we can now simply run some PowerShell scripts to get everything set up to…
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Marcus
25th March 2015
I’ve been threatening to start a blog for a while. Now is the time. The rate at which Microsoft are continuing to release new products and services is continuing to increase. I used to spend the majority of my days working with Windows Server. Blogs have been a key learning resource and are a great help when troubleshooting particular issues. Often I would research a subject or issues, learn how to do something once and that was it for the next few years. I am now spending an increasing amount of time working with Microsoft Azure. I’m increasingly working with technologies that are have only…
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