Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) is an important topic to understand to ensure your organization designs workloads to provide reliable services. The purpose of this article isn't to discuss BCDR itself, but rather different Azure Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) patterns and considerations when designing workloads with BCDR in mind.For more information on BCDR, … [Read more...] about GRS Storage and BCDR Considerations
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Pre-creating Azure AD App for Azure Migrate
When deploying an Azure Migrate Appliance to perform VMware environmental discovery, there are some steps that must be taken to prepare an Azure User Account with the necessary permissions. These steps are outlined in: Prepare an Azure user account.One of these steps are to have "Permissions to register Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) apps." This can be done a couple … [Read more...] about Pre-creating Azure AD App for Azure Migrate
Azure Runbooks Connecting to Exchange Online and Microsoft Graph
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the following two capabilities:Leverage an Azure Runbook to connect to Exchange Online via an Azure Active Directory Application to run Exchange Online PowerShell CommandsLeverage an Azure Runbook to connect to Microsoft Graph via an Azure Active Directory Application to Send Email via Exchange OnlineWe will walk through … [Read more...] about Azure Runbooks Connecting to Exchange Online and Microsoft Graph
Preserving UNC Path after Azure Files Migration using DFS-N
OverviewDuring a file migration to Azure leveraging Azure Files, a File Server, ANF, or any target system that will leverage a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path, it is often desirable to retain the original UNC path. Typically, Administrators will have to either:Update Logon ScriptsUpdate GPOsProvide manual instructions to users on remapping their Network Drives … [Read more...] about Preserving UNC Path after Azure Files Migration using DFS-N
Pin Azure VM Availability Sets into an Availability Zone
OverviewUpdate (10/12/2022): This instructions in this article are no longer necessary with the new feature Proximity Placement Group intent feature that has been added where you can specify the VM Sizes and Availability Zone a Proximity Placement Group can be aligned to. More information here.When you deploy a Virtual Machine and want High Availability, you have one … [Read more...] about Pin Azure VM Availability Sets into an Availability Zone
