The Service Fabric team has posted PART 1 of a great Lab series a while ago.. I needed part 2 for a SF course at University – so I created my own fan sequel! I had the SF team have a quick look – and they said it looks good Who knows, one day it’s Read More…
Category: Azure
Automatically tagging Azure Resource Groups with the owner

[Update] The latest script is now available on GitHub – https://github.com/knom/AzureResourceOwnerTag In our team we have the notion to TAG Resource Groups with the ALIAS of the owner. This is to identify, who the main point of contact is. Step 1: Apply a tag with name “alias” and the value (e.g. “me”) to the resource group Read More…
Quickly install SQL Server Management Studio into your AZURE VM

Recently I’ve done several HA Cluster deployments of SQL Server into Azure, leveraging ALWAYS ON. When doing so, SQL Server Management Studio comes in handy.. While it installed with the SQL Server VM Image out of the gallery, sometimes you’d need on another machine (e.g. to test a cluster behind an Azure ILB). So what’s Read More…
WordPress in Azure WebApps with Azure Sql Database
I’ve not done a lot of blogging recently.. With the last post on my OLD blog being from 2010. One of the reasons for this was me wanting to run my own blog in Azure… While WordPress did work well so far on Azure Web Sites / Web Apps, the big painpoint so far had Read More…