by Peter McLarty | August 27, 2025 | Azure
Welcome to what is a lot of work when you want to upgrade SQL Server on an Azure VM. You might want to consider other strategies, but there may be good reasons you wish to go this path. It may well seem easier with detaching and attaching disks or some other approach...
by Peter McLarty | February 8, 2025 | Azure
Azure has a major problem with DNS and Azure DNS is a mess. I am sure they could resolve it, but I am unsure they desire or care. Don’t get me wrong in the technical sense of point something at DNS and it resolves reliably, as the DNS servers are reliable, but...
by Peter McLarty | January 15, 2025 | Azure, DevOps
Often, finding the admin account in an Azure VM comes up when managing multiple VMs across an organisation. This is possibly more prevalent where there are no particular rules or considerations of what to use. There are no rules around account usernames for the admin...
by Peter McLarty | January 25, 2022 | Azure, DevOps
When you start out with Azure DevOps and a lack of understanding or perhaps simply wanting to do a quick and dirty with Azure SQL database it’s not all that hard to set up. Create a pipeline for the build and then a release pipeline. Use some secret variables...
by Peter McLarty | January 10, 2022 | Azure, DevOps
Doing some work these past few weeks and all I can say is Microsoft Cloud security is difficult. Don’t believe the hype, when you delve into security with Microsoft Cloud products, things are difficult and broken at the worst. Recently, and there’ll be more posted...
by Peter McLarty | December 16, 2021 | Azure, DevOps
I’ve recently been working to create and Azure dat platform and chose to build systems with Pulumi. Expect to see more posts about this over the next 6 months and possibly more. It’s a fascinating space as you stumble upon some of Microsoft’s...
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