I’ve had this project on my list to try for a while. I wanted to turn an LED on/off on a breadboard sitting on my desk when I turned on/off a virtual machine in Azure. Before I got into all the details, here is a video showing it in action. This is at a speed of x2 and I cut … Read More
Azure CLI for Creating Certificates to use with Azure Compute ASM
Recently I’ve been playing around a with Node.js a Raspberry Pi and Azure (more on that in the next blog post). Since all my VMs have been around a while, they are in ASM mode and not ARM mode, so I was using azure-asm-compute module for Node.js. However, this module uses certificates to authenticate you to the service, and not … Read More
Deleteing all Data Drives on an Azure VM with PowerShell
A few months ago I wrote a blog post on Deleting an Azure Hard Drive with PowerShell. This is great if you just have a drive or two you want to delete. I was doing more testing with premium storage and had 32 drives on one VM that I needed to delete (more on why in a future post). The … Read More
Deleting an Azure Hard Drive with PowerShell
The other day I had an issue deleting on of my VMs Old Hard Drive from Azure via the GUI in the browser. So, what did I do, my favorite, write some PowerShell. So, just a quick post on the steps you can take if you want to delete an Azure .VHD in PowerShell. Download and Install the Microsoft Azure … Read More
Azure Premium Storage is Expensive
Just a quick post on something I found this month (when I ran out of Azure Credits). Azure Premium Storage costs add up in a hurry. I know, MS outlines all the pricing here – http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/ and I should have seen it coming, but sometimes the tables don’t meen anything until you can finally comare it with what you already … Read More
Disk Performance in Azure
This post is simply going to cover some of the results I discovered while doing some testing of Virtual Machines (VMs) in Azure using their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). There will be a second post here (link place holder) that will go over in more detail how to configured the disks for testing, primarily the disk striping, as more … Read More
Running a SharePoint Dev or Test Environments in Azure
So here it goes, I’m officially committing to writing this series of blog posts. I thought about doing it all in one post and quickly realize this was way to long to be a single post. So, I’m going to break this up into a series of blog posts. Currently this is what I’m thinking (although it’s subject to change … Read More
All about the Office 365 Video Portal
When the Office 365 Video Portal was released I jumped on the opportunity to play with it as I’ve been looking for something like this. This started out as just documenting my first experience with the portal and has turned into a whole lot more. So, this is going to be by far my longest blog post. For those of … Read More
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