PASS Speaker Idol Sign Ups Are Closing Soon
If you were planning on signing up for the PASS Summit Speaker Idol you have a little over two days left in order to get signed up. Signups close at 11:59pm on August 31st, 2016 as pure the official rules. So go get signed up, or sign up your favorite speaker that you’ve seen at…
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Releasing a Page Blob Lease in Azure
Sometimes when firing up VMs or moving VMs from the page or blob store you’ll get an error that there is still a lease on the file. To solve this you need to release the lease. But waiting won’t do the trick, as the leases don’t have an expiration date. I found some VB.NET code…
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Making Azure PowerShell Scripts Work in PowerShell and As RunBooks
Runbooks are very powerful tools which allow you to automate PowerShell commands which need to be run at different times. One of the problems that I’ve run across when dealing with Azure Runbooks is that there is no way to use the same script on prem during testing and the same script when deploying. This…
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It’s the cloud, it’s highly available. Do I need to worry about HA and DR?
Short answer: Yes. While yes the cloud is highly available and services that are taking offline due to hardware failures, host server reboots due to patching, etc. can your application survive being down for several minutes in the middle of the day? If the answer to that question is “no”, and the answer to that…
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