Everything you need to know about how to select, deploy, optimize and more when it comes to managing your virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. In last month's column I covered the basic step-by-step ...

When you need to ensure your agency’s Azure virtual machines are backed up and can be restored at a moment’s notice, Azure Backup is your best friend. If you’ve already created a VM backup in an Azure ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

In today’s post, we will identify the cause and then provide the resolution to the issue of performing an in-place system upgrade is not supported on Windows-based Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Azure ...

Microsoft has released FreeBSD 10.3 as a "ready made" VM image on the Azure marketplace. The release will make it easier for customers to spin-up a FreeBSD VM in Azure and it means that customers can ...

This article addresses a key function built in to Windows 2012 that on first blush may seem like a complex technical networking feature, but that functionality has GREAT implications when extending ...

Using Azure's "virtual machine agent," you can reset the local administrator password without even hitting the Windows OS itself. Here's how. When a Windows server is located on-premises and you ...

There are various benefits to creating a cloud VM; however, we have noticed that in many circumstances, we cannot connect to the VM (Azure VDI VM) using RDP or Remote Desktop Protocol. This issue can ...