Mobility and Security by Courtenay Bernier
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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