Author: Renjith V C

Deploying a basic Windows VM in Azure with PowerShell

We will look at end to end commands to deploy a basic Windows VM on the Azure Before we begin the process make sure you have the required Azure module installed on your computer. Launch the PowerShell and enter the below command to login to your Azure Subscription. It will prompt with a Azure portal. […]

Azure Managed Disks VS Unmanaged Disks/Storage Accounts

What is Azure managed disks? Azure Managed Disks simplifies disk management for Azure IaaS VMs by managing the storage accounts associated with the VM disks. You only have to specify the type (Premium or Standard) and the size of disk you need, and Azure creates and manages the disk for you. What is Azure Storage […]

Deploy a Virtual Machine with a static Private IP in Azure

We will look at the configuration of setting up a static private IP for a Virtual machine in Azure. The use case for this setup is when you need to deploy a DNS or Domain Controller on the cloud. Well creating of Virtual machine procedure are same as for setting up a static IP for […]

Deploy a Virtual Machine with a static Public IP in Azure

Today we will look at the step by step procedure for deploying a virtual machine on the Azure with a static public IP configuration. So below are the step by step to do this. We will look at creating a Server 2016 VM and also see the configurations for VMNet and Subnet creation, Storage account […]

VNet Creation on Azure from PowerShell

We have already seen how to configure the VNet on the Azure from the console and today we will look at how to create the VNet from the Powershell also we will look at basic Powershell commands to help you on the VNet operations. First command is to create a resource group named “RenResourceGroup” in […]

Quest Migration Manager – Troubleshooting

Today I want to share with you about an AD Migration tool named Quest Migration Manager. Recently I got a chance to get involved in AD Migration project. From my previous experience in AD migration using ADMT I should say the migration using Quest Migration manager is a piece of cake. Still as you all […]

Moving FSMO roles to different Domain controllers – The easiest way

Flexible Single Master Operation in short FSMO. If you are a system admin you will be well aware of this abbreviation as it’s a core topic of Active Directory Domain Services. There are 5 FSMO roles a) Schema master b) Domain naming master c) Infrastructure master e) RID master f) PDC Emulator. As you know there […]

Guide to NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012

NIC teaming is one of the out of the box feature available on Server 2012. Earlier NIC teaming was only possible with additional hardware support and a bit complicated configuration process but from Server 2012 it has become a piece of cake. Advantages of NIC Teaming in Server 2012 Network connectivity is possible even if […]