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https for IIS on IaaS - the basics
More a quick reference for me than anything else - these are the steps to enable https for iis on IaaS in Azure (well or anywhere for that matter) - this will use a 'proper' certificate from a...
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Helping hell freeze over....
With Microsoft's embrace of all things open source since Satya took over the helm more and more strange things seem to be possible.This week i wanted to install the azcopy utility on linux to enable...
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Doing stuff in Azure via REST
So the journey into Azure continues - today I've been looking into how we can call the REST api that Microsoft provide in Azure so we can understand how it works and see what it can be used for.There...
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Best plsql function ever.....?
Total clickbait title i know and this isn't likely to be the best formatted you'll ever see or the one that has the cleverest use of objects/arrays (i'll leave that to the real experts like Steven) but...
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Text me baby.....
This week I've been looking into the possibility of getting our monitoring system(s) to be able to send SMS alerts in the event of really critical problems - to try and prevent business outages or at...
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Anyone can be a developer - logic apps from Azure
As we go further and further down the rabbit hole that is Azure it becomes more and more apparent how good the platform is. However logic apps takes that to a whole new level - anyone can develop...
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Adios DBA, Hello Azure
This post has been a while coming, from some of my posts over the past few months you may have detected a change in direction somewhat - there's still been the odd Oracle thing in there but a lot of...
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Auditing Azure operations
It was highlighted this week the importance of knowing who does what through the Azure framework - an item (a storage account) had been removed and we needed to know who had done that and...
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Writing your own custom log messages to OMS
I'm still trying to get my head round the whole OMS topic and how it really fits into our azure management/monitoring framework. As part of working that out I've today been working out how to add my...
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Azure billing data in OMS - who needs 3rd party tools.......
We've been looking into getting better control over our spending in Azure - as many of you may have found it's very easy to start spending a lot more than you intended - and this is true of all cloud...
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Azure AD Domain Services (AADDS) - some thoughts
I thought i'd share some thoughts on 'domain services' inside Azure - some good things and some bad following on from our implementation and now we have got to know some of its benefits and...
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Using powershell in cloud shell to show windows licences
Now I'm no powershell expert , i would describe myself as a beginner but I'm able to re-use concepts from other scripting tools/languages to build what i want to do (i'm still not sure if powershell is...
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Cross workspace reporting in log analytics
We had some consultants in last week talking about many different Azure topics - one of the things i mentioned was that it was really annoying that there seemed to be no way to report across multiple...
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Azure VM extensions
VM extensions allow you to install additional software/features into your VM without having to actually log on to the VM to do that.Whilst looking into it this past week i realised there are a lot more...
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logic apps inserting to an 'on premises' database
Logic apps are one of the nicest features I've discovered so far in Azure - they allow application logic to be built very simply without really having to do 'proper coding'. The one downside is that...
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Azure storage - Schrödinger's cat
Anyone remember Schrödinger's cat - the 'thought' experiment from the 1930's that pondered if the cat was alive or dead - well I'm not going to go into that but just use it as a pointless premise to...
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Azure AKS and the quest for a PaaS ftp server
Bit of a longer post this one as this took me ages to get working and involved me having to try to learn lots of new stuff to the level where i could make it work.....(without really truly...
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Azure metadata service
I discovered this purely by chance this week and thought it would be useful to share.Seems there is some functionality in Azure that lets you extract some information about the VM (that is not directly...
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Monitoring java app servers (Tomcat) with Zabbix
This past week we've been trying to enhance our monitoring of java application servers (in our case Tomcat) using zabbix. This actually proved to be a lot more fiddly than we had hoped - and actually...
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Some MySql/zabbix findings
This past week I've been looking in to creating some reports out of our zabbix database that we host in an Azure MySQL PaaS service (i.e. a proper PaaS where everything is managed via a web gui/api...
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