The Ennui of Success In 2018, I attended Microsoft Ignite and one of the things I noticed during the keynote was how stale everything seemed. Satya appeared to not only be lacking …
On last week’s Buffer Overflow we were talking about this very strange blog post from Microsoft about a “Modern OS” and what it should include. It’s obvious …
Recently at two separate client meetings, I heard two people say that they hate Microsoft. As you may have guessed, both people were happily using some type of Apple device, and …
Sigh. There’s an old adage that I always come back to. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean that you should. In this case I am thinking about the recent …
In a previous post I covered how to add a Linux image to Azure Stack. In this post I am going to detail a simple (if slow) way of adding a Server 2012 R2 image to Azure Stack as …
This is part 4 in a series. You can find part 1 here , part 2 here, and part 3 here. First off, let me quell your anticipation. I got it working! It was not as straightforward as I …
If you’ve started playing with Azure Stack, you might notice that the Windows Server 2012R2 image is a little behind on its Windows patches. Before you do any heavy duty …
Everything is Broken… There’s more than one occasion where I have uttered the phrase, “Why can’t this just work?” Usually after battling it out with some …
There are two deployment models in Azure, the older being the Service Management model, aka classic mode. The newer model is Azure Resource Manager (ARM). For reasons that extend …