Azure

In this three-part series, Russell Smith discusses how he deployed an Active Directory forest with 2 domain controllers and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft has finally released the Azure Site Recovery Planner to help you understand, design, and size your disaster recovery solutions in Azure for on-premises VMware and Hyper-V deployments.

Aidan Finn explains what Microsoft’s General Purpose v2 (GPv2) storage account is and how this is related to the general availability of tiered blob storage.

Aidan Finn compares and contrasts the two options for deploying SQL Server in Microsoft Azure, Azure SQL, and SQL Server running in a virtual machine.

In part two of this series on deploying Active Directory and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure, Russell Smith shows you how to add a PowerShell Desired State Configuration resource to the project.

Aidan Finn delves into the mists of the future to discover what will work and what will not in the world of Hyper-V and the Microsoft cloud in 2018.

Aidan Finn discusses what the recent GA of system state protection by Azure Backup means for you and shows how to add system state to MARS agent backup policy.

Aidan Finn grades his predictions on what would happen with Hyper-V and Microsoft cloud computing in the year of 2017.

Microsoft and VMware are friends again with both companies agreeing to work together to bring VMware products to Microsoft’s cloud.

Aidan Finn discusses how to estimate your consumption using the public Azure pricing calculator.