Azure-IaaS-Digest number 2 (February)

Disclaimer: I write mostly about Azure in terms of infrastructure (DSC, IaaS, Hybrid \ Private Cloud, OMS, ASR, Backup, etc.). Not about the development of Azure (although sometimes something slips).

We continue to read about Azure, it turns out to find the material is not so difficult, if you set a goal :)


Microsoft OMS
OMS Client for Microsoft Band.
Almost realtime information gathering using OMS (series of posts).
Conformity assessment of your AD DS for compliance with best practices using OMS and what the Sirona project is.
Creating incidents in SCSM from OMS
Working with Azure Automation will be possible only from the new Azure portal (in early March all Azure Automation subscriptions will be transferred to the ARM model).
Monitor syslog using OMS on devices where you cannot install an OMS agent.
Configure OMS to monitor Exchange.
A series of posts about Powershell Desired State Configuration (not quite OMS, but almost).
OMS and Linux. Quick Start Guide.
Azure Automation can use PowerShell v5.
How to get Runbook ID Azure Automation.
Starting the Azure Automation Runbook with a new tweet.
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Azure
A document on data encryption technology Azure Disk Encryption for Linux and Windows.
Manage your IoT Core device via PowerShell.
Project Nami - WordPress on Azure SQL (highly recommend, use for your blog; very convenient on the Azure platform for ClearDB guano).
Creating ARM templates in Visual Studio.
Azure App Service and data collection with Raspberry Pi.
ARM template for the Azure DSC extension and comments to it.
ARM and GitHub.
ARM and GitHub (Fetch, Diff, Merge).
Azure Blob Storage Indexing - Azure Search Indexer public preview.
Azure ARM and network configuration (Hub & Spoke, Daisy-Chain, Full-Mesh).
Interesting article - how PetaFlop looks in Azure.
Resize a virtual machine disk in Azure.
New SQL Server AlwaysOn cluster template with some improvements.
New version of the poster Microsoft Cloud Networking.
Elasticsearch cluster template in Azure.
AADConnect 1.1 released.
RHEL 6.7 and 7.2 are available in the Azure marketplace.
Preview Azure Container Service and work with it .

Azure stack
A utility for viewing the properties of virtual machines for the Azure Stack.
Azure Stack POC Troubleshooting script.