During one of my last project with a customer who works with highly sensitive data, I got a request that every VM which stores data on its disks need to be encrypted. There is more than one way to do that, like using PowerShell or ARM template extension. There were both Linux and Windows VMs […]
Antecedent During one of my latest implementations I configured a multi-subnet SQL Basic Availability Group (BAG) configuration in Azure. I also wrote a blog about that what you can read HERE. After that configuration, I was thinking about how to deploy 2 BAGs in the same SQL Instance using separate ports. As we know there […]
Antecedent The last implementation of a SCOM 2016 environment included 2 Gateway servers and integration to Operations Management Suite (OMS) in Azure. I used the final release of SCOM 2016 to deploy the servers and when all the infrastructure objects were in place I updated it with the recent Update Rollup (UR1). In the implementation […]
Overview Since SQL Server 2012, there is an option in the SQL Server backup to save the output file into an Azure storage account. During the last few project I was working in, I got the request of using this method more than one times. I configured the backup this way and then, I realized […]
Overview In one of my last System Center Operations Manager 2016 deployments the databases were designed to run using Basic Availability Groups (BAGs are new in SQL Server 2016) hosted by a SQL cluster in Azure with nodes in 2 separated regions in 2 separate subnets. I was looking around the internet for about 2-3 […]
During my last project with a customer I had to build a small SCOM environment using 2012 R2 version with SQL Server 2014 SP1 as databases. The environment consists of the following components: 1 SQL 2014 SP server with named instance for Operations Manager database 1 SQL 2014 SP server with named instance for Operations […]
Part of my job as Cloud Consultant to configure System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager environments including Management Packs. The one which causes most of the headaches is the Management Pack for SQL servers. The reason is that Microsoft changed the default permissions for LocalSystem when they release SQL Server 2012. Before that, LocalSystem (other […]
