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Azure recently start to support the Generation 2 VMs. Before When we create a VMs inside Azure it uses the Generation 1 VMs. If your work with Hyper-V in on-premises environment generation of the VMs are not an strange thing. Because Hyper-V support Generation 2 VMs from Windows Server 2012Read More →

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Azure Kubernetes Service aka (AKS) is a managed service provided by Microsoft Azure to deploy micro-service applications quickly and managed those apps with less administrative efforts. With a Kubernetes release of v1.14 it enable the production level support for windows nodes and containers. With this announcement, AKS team announce theRead More →

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As of the end of 2018, I’ll be presenting a session at Sri Lanka IT Pro December meetup. In this month session, we will go through how to secure Azure Resources using Azure Security Center.  This session will include how to getting start with Azure Security Center and use itRead More →

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In release of Windows Server 2016 it includes the new headless server deployment “Nano Server”. Nano Server is a stripped-down version of Windows Server. When we comes to System Center 2016 Operation Manager we can monitor Nano Server through SCOM 2016. In SCOM 2016 it ships with the Nano ServerRead More →

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Nano Server Image builder help us to create a Nano Server using GUI interface. The advantage of using this  we can customize our settings using a GUI interface, before this tool comes we have to use PowerShell for creating a Nano Server Image. By using this tool we can createRead More →

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In this series of posts I will discuss the Azure Automation service, which enables to manage configuration of the Windows and Linux servers in the Azure,on-premises or any other cloud platform.Following is the line up for the series of blog posts. Introduction to Azure Automation. Onboarding a Windows Server NodeRead More →

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Few days back I was building my SCOM 2016 Lab and I got the idea of monitoring Nano Server, which was introduce with Windows Server 2016. Ok so when I search Azure marketplace I found there is a template to create a nano server.So first I deploy the Nano ServerRead More →

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Today I started to deploy my Operations Manager 2016 lab. So I configure relevant components and install the management server.Then I deploy few agents to my DC & SQL server, after few minutes I clicked the Windows Computer tab in monitoring area. When I click it wired thing happens, suddenlyRead More →

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Yes, Finally MSFT takes Windows Server 2016 in to GA (General Availability) today so as been GA Microsoft include Windows Server 2016 image to Azure marketplace. Whats New in Windows Server 2016 Note- Some of the following features are not supported in Azure VMs. Nano Servers Windows Server Containers andRead More →

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Azure Scale Set in the Azure Compute resource type that you can use to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs. Those all VMs configured the same, and VMSS are designed to support true auto-scale without pre provisioning VMs. Because of that we can use VMSS to build large scaleRead More →