by sebmatthews | Sep 1, 2016 | Azure, Cloud, Microsoft
So the onward march of progress in Azure took a surprising turn today when an out of the blue announcement was made on the Enterprise Mobility and Security Blog (see post here) announcing the end (or “winding down”) of Azure RemoteApp, Microsoft’s... by sebmatthews | Jul 13, 2016 | Cloud, Microsoft
So it’s finally happened. Windows as a Service is now officially here. This week (Tuesday 12th) Microsoft announced at it’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (“WPC” to those in the know…) that Windows 10 would be made available from... by sebmatthews | Jun 1, 2016 | Cloud, Microsoft, Office 365
Today’s annoying Office 365 featurette? Tenant name reuse, or lack thereof. When you’re signing up an O365 tenant (which for various reasons I have done a few times recently) you have to choose your tenant name – the bit that goes in front of the... by sebmatthews | Mar 25, 2016 | Azure, Cloud, PowerShell
If you’re looking for a way to snapshot Azure VMs you will probably have established that unlike pureplay virtualisation (such as Hyper-V or ESXi on-premises) there is no simple snapshot option for a Azure VMs. It’s possible that Microsoft might add this... by sebmatthews | Aug 19, 2015 | Cloud, Microsoft, PowerShell
PowerShell is a script automation framework developed and released by Microsoft that empowers system administrators and developers to perform tasks predictably and repeatedly. Originally part of the Microsoft Management Framework for Windows, PowerShell now ships as... by sebmatthews | Aug 18, 2015 | Azure, Cloud
The key to the implementation of successful Cloud scale solutions is in the delivery of services that can operate effectively, efficiently and when required, independently. Containers provide a level of process and service isolation that has historically been neither... 