Remote App connection problems There are numerous reports online of users having intermittent problems connecting to RemoteApp applications using remote gateway. The information here relates specifically to remote gateway on... read more Posted by 29 June 2014 Comments(0)
Setting up a domain server in Azure Server 2012 Setting up a domain controller for a small network is generally very simple in Server 2012. However if you want to do this using Azure VMs there are few extra considerations such as needing to make... read more Posted by 20 June 2014 Comments(0)
Adding additional session hosts to a Remote Gateway on Server 2012 Adding additional session hosts means that your users can have their sessions load balanced across two or more server supporting larger numbers with better performance. Before you start The... read more Posted by 20 June 2014 Comments(0)
Server 2012 setting up remote gateway, remote desktop and RemoteApp Having set up lots of these using Server 2008 I thought this should be straightforward. However the changes in Server 2012 make this quite a different process in some scenarios with some new... read more Posted by 20 June 2014 Comments(0)
Moving a SQL server database to Azure Not all SQL features are supported: http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/feature/Why-you-should-think-twice-about-Windows-Azure-SQL-Database Prerequisites You need SMSS for SQL 2012. This ... read more Posted by 16 June 2014 Comments(0)
Uploading disks and VMs to Azure Subscriptions Before you can upload anything to Azure you need to make powershell aware of your Azure... read more Posted by 15 June 2014 Categories: Azure Comments(0)
Configuring certificates for Azure backup Azure backup allows you to securely link one or more servers to a backup store. For some reason I had some initial difficulties getting the certificates to all line up – so this is a quick note of... read more Posted by 15 June 2014 Categories: Azure Comments(0)
Backing up and restoring Azure VMs Note – none of the details below are required for simply creating and using VMs in Azure directly. The details come into play if you start ending to copy VHDs around and recreate VMs from... read more Posted by 11 June 2014 Categories: Azure Comments(0)
Working with Azure storage There are lots of ways using PowerShell to work with these – but they can be fiddly. However there is also a free tool: http://www.cerebrata.com/products/azure-explorer/introduction This allows... read more Posted by 11 June 2014 Categories: Azure Comments(0)