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Migrating from unmanaged to managed disks
Solution ·We talked about Managed Disks, now let’s use them.
Let’s migrate existing VMs from unmanaged to managed disks.
Install pre-requisites
Update your Microsoft Azure PowerShell to the latest bits in order to include Managed Disks functionalities
Deploy ARM Template
{ "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#", "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0", "parameters": { "VM Admin User Name": { "defaultValue": "myadmin", "type": "string" }, "VM Admin...
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Azure Managed Disk–Overview
Solution ·Microsoft released Azure Managed disk 2 weeks ago. Let’s look at it!
What did we have until then? The virtual hard disk (.vhd file) was stored as a page blob in an Azure Storage account.
That worked quite fine and Azure Disks are a little more than that. A...
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Extended Outage @ Instapaper - Resiliency example
Solution ·I use Instapaper extensively to store the continuous flow of internet articles I want to read. I created a bunch of tools integrating with it (e.g. monitoring atom feeds and sending new articles to Instapaper)
Last week my tools didn’t work for a while so I finally logged...
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Automating Azure AD
Solution ·In the previous article, we explored how to interact (read / write) to an Azure AD tenant using Microsoft Graph API.
In the article before that, we looked at how to authenticate a user without using Azure AD web flow.
Those were motivated by a...
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Using Microsoft Graph API to interact with Azure AD
Solution ·In my last article, I showed how to authenticate on Azure AD using a user name / password without using the native web flow.
The underlying scenario was to migrate an application using an LDAP server by leveraging an Azure AD tenant.
The logical continuation of that scenario is...