Share via


Mobility and Security by Courtenay Bernier

Bringing you detailed information about Cyber Security, Identity, Information Protection, Device Management, and Threat Detection.

Microsoft Azure Automation

Automation within Microsoft Azure? Yes it’s real. Last week during the Microsoft Build conference...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 04/08/2014

Windows Azure Pack, IaaS and PaaS Self-Service for your Employees and Customers

If you’ve ever made a multi-layer cake you know that there are typically multiple layers of cakes...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 02/19/2014

Copying Virtual Machines to Windows Azure using System Center App Controller 2012 R2

When I hear the term “Hybrid Cloud” I think of a mesh of networking, compute, and storage resources...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 02/04/2014

Move VM’s between Hyper-V and Windows Azure

One of the benefits when working with Hyper-V and Windows Azure is the portability of Virtual...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 01/27/2014

Create a self-signed certificate for use with Windows Azure using a Windows script.

If you’ve worked with Windows Azure you’ll know that a certificate is required to interface with...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 01/17/2014

Monitoring your UNIX/Linux Servers with System Center Operations Manager 2012

As I have discussions with different organizations, I learn about the tools utilized to monitor...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 01/10/2014

Multi-Factor Authentication… the simple way

Do you support or are you planning to implement a multi-factor authentication solution? I have a...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 12/02/2013

Load-Balance Virtual Machines in Windows Azure

Did you know you can load-balance virtual machines (VMs) within Windows Azure? The following content...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 11/11/2013

Virtualizing SQL Server on Hyper-V and on Windows Azure VMs

I’ve been asked the question by many organizations: “can we virtualize SQL Server?” My answer is...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 11/06/2013

Relating traditional datacenter costs to Windows Azure

Estimating costs for cloud services can be difficult because there are an infinite amount of...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 11/01/2013

Monitoring Windows Azure with System Center Operations Manager 2012 – GET ME STARTED!

OK, you’ve installed System Center Operations Manger 2012 (OM 2012) and need to monitor Windows...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 10/23/2013

Windows Azure, a simple walk-through of options

I understand there may be some apprehension with utilizing an outside infrastructure to host...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 10/08/2013

Deploy your web application to Windows Azure with Visual Studio

Web applications have traditionally been deployed to data center hosted servers (e.g. IIS, Apache,...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 09/24/2013

Move your SQL Server Databases to Windows Azure SQL

Would you like to move SQL Server databases out of your datacenter and into a reliable, scalable,...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 09/11/2013

Backing up Servers to Windows Azure Backup via Recovery Services

Looking for a quick method to back up your Windows servers however you don’t want to consume...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 09/06/2013

Windows Azure Media Services and Web Sites

Have you ever wanted to publish videos or training material without having to deploy a new server or...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 09/03/2013

Converting Hyper-V .vhdx to .vhd file formats for use in Windows Azure

So you’ve implemented Hyper-V and are using the .vhdx VM file formats for your virtual machines and...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 08/29/2013

So you have a datacenter, what next?

I’ve worked with a number of organizations who are apprehensive about moving workloads to...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 08/26/2013

System Center Virtual Machine Manager & Service Templates

Traditionally system administrators and engineers deploy virtual machines on a one off basis. ...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 08/23/2013

Working with Windows Azure Storage

Q: What’s an easy and cost effective (e.g. free) method for me to access Windows Azure storage and...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 08/22/2013

WINDOWS AZURE HOW-TO - Point-to-Site VPN Walk-Through

I’ll walk you through how to create a Point-to-Site VPN connection from your machine to Windows...

Author: Courtenay Bernier Date: 08/21/2013

<Previous