VM

Azure – You can now use Azure Update Manager to update SQL Server on Azure VM (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By / / , , , , ,

Ensuring your virtual machine and workloads running on it is an important task to maintain your security posture. You probably know that you can manage updates management on Azure using Azure Update Manager (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/update-center/overview?tabs=azure-vms). Well, Azure Update Manager can now be used to also update your SQL instance running on a virtual machine. To do …

Azure – You can now use Azure Update Manager to update SQL Server on Azure VM (preview) Read More »

Azure – You can request to join the private preview for enabling Trusted Launch on existing virtual machines

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By / / , , , , ,

  As you may know, since October 2021, you can enable Trusted Launch capabilities (TPM, Secure Boot) when creating virtual machines on Azure (see https://t.co/94CVmga284).   Well, you can now request to join the private preview to enable Trusted Launch on existing virtual machines by filling this form https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR2RiF4tSllVBmoqo337yG5lUMFBLVjVNVkdGUUxQRzRMUElKM0RaV1hLVi4u.   You will have to provide …

Azure – You can request to join the private preview for enabling Trusted Launch on existing virtual machines Read More »

Azure – You can now do virtual machine in-place upgrade

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / By / / , , , ,

As Windows administrator, you know the importance of keeping up with Windows server versions to stay supported and receive updates. To do so, you usually have 2 options to upgrade your Windows server version: in-place upgrade deploy a new virtual machine running the targeted version and then migrate your workloads and data on this new …

Azure – You can now do virtual machine in-place upgrade Read More »

Azure – You can now restore virtual machine in a different subscription (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By / / , , , , , , , , , , ,

If you are running virtual machines in Azure, you already know that you can backup your virtual machine using Azure Recovery Vault. Well, until now, when you had to restore a virtual machine you could only restore it within the same subscription. This is no longer the case as you can now restore the virtual …

Azure – You can now restore virtual machine in a different subscription (preview) Read More »

Azure – You can now easily enable recommended alerts for virtual machine

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By / / , , , , , ,

It is important to monitor the health of your workloads. On Azure, this can be done by settings alerts to get notification or execute actions based on conditions. It is now becoming easier to quickly enable a set of recommended alerts for your virtual machine running on Azure. To do so, connect to your Azure …

Azure – You can now easily enable recommended alerts for virtual machine Read More »

Azure – You can now enable Azure Virtual Machine Insights with Azure Monitor (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By / / , , , , , , , ,

If you are running virtual machines in Azure, you are probably already aware that you can have insights about the performance of your virtual machines (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2019/07/19/azure-virtual-machines-insights-in-preview/). Well, good new as now you also have the same by using Azure Monitor. One of the advantage of it is you don’t need to have multiple virtual …

Azure – You can now enable Azure Virtual Machine Insights with Azure Monitor (preview) Read More »

Azure – New KMS DNS in Azure global cloud

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / By / / , , , , ,

As you are probably already aware, when you deploy Windows virtual machines in Azure, Windows use the Azure KMS DNS to activate Windows. Well, in June 2022, a new KMS DNS – azkms.core.windows.net – has started to be rolled out. Existing virtual machines already activated remain activated with kms.core.windows.net. It is now generally available in …

Azure – New KMS DNS in Azure global cloud Read More »

Azure – You can now expand your data drive without downtime (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By / / , , , ,

If you run Azure virtual machines, you already know that you expand your data drives after shutting down (deallocate) the virtual machine. Well, good news, you can now do the same without downtime. Before you start expanding your drives while your virtual machine is still running, you need to know the following: This capability is …

Azure – You can now expand your data drive without downtime (preview) Read More »

Azure – You can now get most frequent PowerShell/Azure Cli commands to manage virtual machine from the portal

1 Comment / Microsoft Azure / By / / , , , , ,

For those managing Azure resources mainly from the portal, especially virtual machines, and want to learn more about PowerShell or Azure Cli command to manage these virtual machines, you can now get the most frequent commands pre-configured for a specific virtual machine. To take advantage of this new learning capability, connect to your Azure portal …

Azure – You can now get most frequent PowerShell/Azure Cli commands to manage virtual machine from the portal Read More »

Azure – You can now use Azure Virtual Machine confidential compute (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By / / , , , , ,

If you have a need to run workloads on a virtual machine with high security and confidentiality requirements you can now use a confidential Azure Virtual Machine. This specific capability is provided thanks to AMD processors using SEV-SNP technologies. The confidential compute is available with the DC and EC virtual machine SKUs: DCasv5-series: Confidential VM …

Azure – You can now use Azure Virtual Machine confidential compute (preview) Read More »