Upgrading SQL Server on an Azure VM

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...

Azure DNS is a Mess

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...

Finding an admin account in Azure VM

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...

Azure DevOps with a Secure Azure SQL Database

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...

Microsoft Cloud Security is Difficult

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...

Pulumi Development on Windows With Python

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...
Exit mobile version