Cloud Collaboration https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/ a cloud blog. Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:26:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 127253763 Azure Batch – Unusable nodes after Starting for a long time when using certificates with Azure Key Vault https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2023/11/azure-batch-unusable-nodes-after-starting-for-a-long-time-when-using-certificates-with-azure-key-vault/ https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2023/11/azure-batch-unusable-nodes-after-starting-for-a-long-time-when-using-certificates-with-azure-key-vault/#respond Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:29:35 +0000 https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/?p=1528 Azure Batch account certificates retirement The Migrate Batch account certificates to Azure Key Vault – Azure Batch | Microsoft Learn states that the Azure Batch account certificates feature will be retired on February 29, 2024. It provides links to an alternative an FAQ. However, the alternative doesn’t quite work. In Enable automatic certificate rotation in […]

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]]> https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2021/05/windows-virtual-desktop-bypass-sign-in-prompt/feed/ 0 1433 Comparing WVD Auto-scaling solutions https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2021/01/comparing-wvd-auto-scaling-solutions/ https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2021/01/comparing-wvd-auto-scaling-solutions/#respond Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:55:45 +0000 https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/?p=1396 Introduction In this post, I’ll discuss a few solutions for auto-scaling Windows Virtual Desktop session hosts and how they compare. I won’t be looking at personal desktops. We’ll explore five solutions: Windows Virtual Desktop Scaling Tool (Microsoft) Ciraltos Scale Host Pool (Ciraltos) Jason Parker’s Scale Optimizer Nerdio Manager for WVD (Nerdio) Project MySmartScale (Sepago) Before […]

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]]> https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2021/01/comparing-wvd-auto-scaling-solutions/feed/ 0 1396 Get a free domain for you Azure labs https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2020/01/get-a-free-domain-for-you-azure-labs/ https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2020/01/get-a-free-domain-for-you-azure-labs/#respond Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/?p=1348 Introduction I’m conducting some training for Azure and need a way for students to get a domain name. In this post, I’ll show you how to get one for free and use Azure DNS to manage it. Get the domain Here are the steps: Head over to https://www.freenom.com Enter your desired domain name in the […]

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]]> https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2019/07/automating-azure-devops-service-connections/feed/ 1 1311 Sharing my PowerShell Profile https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2018/12/sharing-my-powershell-profile/ https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2018/12/sharing-my-powershell-profile/#respond Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:15:55 +0000 https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/?p=1280 Over the course of the last several months, I’ve collected several snippets for my PowerShell profile. Your PowerShell profile is loaded each time you start PowerShell. The official documentation for it can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_profiles?view=powershell-6 To get started, you can easily edit your profile by typing notepad $profile to load your profile. The PowerShell […]

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]]> https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2018/12/sharing-my-powershell-profile/feed/ 0 1280 Toying with Azure Functions – A Trade Log https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2018/05/toying-with-azure-functions-a-trade-log/ https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2018/05/toying-with-azure-functions-a-trade-log/#respond Mon, 21 May 2018 15:00:43 +0000 https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/?p=1270 Serverless. The best way for me to learn something is to use it, I’m hands-on. After being barraged by articles and hype around Azure Functions, I decided to try it out. But, I’m not a developer. All the new stuff that the cool kids are playing with today (IoT, Serverless, Bots, AI, etc.) requires real […]

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]]> https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2018/05/toying-with-azure-functions-a-trade-log/feed/ 0 1270 Using Azure Policy Sets https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2017/11/using-azure-policy-sets/ https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2017/11/using-azure-policy-sets/#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:32:37 +0000 https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/?p=1251 At Microsoft Ignite in September 2017, Ryan Jones (@rjmax) discussed Azure Resource Manager Policies and some enhancements coming soon. See this blog post about the public preview announcement. One of those, was Policy Sets. Policy Sets allow you to group several policies together and assign them as a group. There’s more information at http://aka.ms/azurepolicy. In […]

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]]> https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2017/11/using-azure-policy-sets/feed/ 1 1251 Trusted Sites With IE ESC Turned On https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2017/09/trusted-sites-with-ie-esc-turned-on/ https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2017/09/trusted-sites-with-ie-esc-turned-on/#comments Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:37:36 +0000 https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/?p=1245 When protecting users from malicious internet sites on servers, we can keep Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration turned on (that’s the default). However, with the setting on, almost no modern website will properly load. The solution is to add these sites you trust to your Trusted Sites zone. In an enterprise environment, we would leverage […]

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]]> https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2017/09/trusted-sites-with-ie-esc-turned-on/feed/ 2 1245 Managed Storage Account SAS Tokens https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2017/08/managed-storage-account-sas-tokens/ https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/2017/08/managed-storage-account-sas-tokens/#respond Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.wahidsaleemi.com/?p=1228 Introduction Building on the previous blog post where we configured Azure Key Vault to automatically rotate Storage Account Keys, this post will discuss SAS tokens (Shared Access Signatures). As a quick refresher, using SAS tokens is the recommended way to interact with your Storage Account. For more information see Using shared access signatures. Create SAS […]

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