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Azure Devops – Self Hosted Agent Service Won’t Start – Incorrect Function

I setup a self hosted agent for Azure Devops this morning on Server 2012 R2 (legacy Visual Studio dependencies…) and found that I was unable to start the service. The error I received was “Error 1 Incorrect Function” when attempting … continue reading

Author RyanPosted on January 14, 2022January 14, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags azure, devops

Azure Tenant Maintenance – Purge Empty Resource Groups

This will be the first article in a series about maintaining Azure tenants and subscriptions.

If you currently, or have ever, worked in a large Azure environment, you know how easily resource creep can occur. Resource Groups, VM disks and … continue reading

Author RyanPosted on January 14, 2022January 14, 2022Categories Uncategorized

Exam AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Study Guide

I recently passed the AZ-303 exam. Below are some of the resources I used to prepare for the exam. In addition to the links below, I also used Alan Rodrigues’ course on Udemy. 

https://www.udemy.com/course/az-102-azure-administrator-certification-transition/

The Udemy course and Microsoft Docs … continue reading

Author RyanPosted on December 16, 2020January 14, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags azure, certification

Azure AD Sync – Set-MsolDirSyncEnabled : You cannot turn off Active Directory synchronization.

 I recently ran into a situation in my lab environment that required I resync all (2000+) user accounts to Azure AD. Though this sounds complex and daunting, its actually quite simple. T

he basic steps involve disabling sync, and then … continue reading

Author RyanPosted on November 26, 2020January 14, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags ActiveDirectory, azure, Office365

Azure VM Scale Set – Get Instance IP Address

 

If you are using VM Scale Sets in Azure, you know how important it can be to quickly obtain an instance IP address. This can of course be done using the Azure Portal. However, I am often working in … continue reading

Author RyanPosted on November 19, 2020January 14, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags azure, Linux, Networking, VMSS

Azure Policy – Allowed Locations for Resource Deployment

 

Azure Policy allows us to control what actions users can perform regarding creating and managing resources in Azure. We can define policies for naming standards, require that certain extensions be installed on virtual machines, audit various resources for certain … continue reading

Author RyanPosted on November 17, 2020January 14, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags azure, Security

Replicate an Azure VM Image Between Regions

 

Let’s say you have a VM in Azure North Central. You created this VM from a custom image that you maintain in an Azure image repository. Now, what if you wanted to create that same VM in Azure South … continue reading

Author RyanPosted on November 3, 2020January 14, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags azure

Reset GRUB/root Password for vCenter/PSC Appliance

In Redhat/Fedora/Cent, GRUB can be protected by running the grub-md5-crypt command and pasting the outputted password hash into the grub.conf file. vSphere 6.0 password protects grub by default. If you change the root password in the VAMI, the GRUB password … continue reading

Author RyanPosted on October 31, 2020January 14, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags Linux, vmware

Deploy a New ADDS Forest on Server 2019 Core

 

Prerequisites:

1)      Change server name and IP address

2)      Configure time settings and NTP

 

In this post we will be reviewing the basic installation of the Active Directory Domain Services role and setup of a new … continue reading

Author RyanPosted on October 31, 2020January 14, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags ActiveDirectory, WindowsServer

Could not connect to VMware Directory Service via LDAP when Deploying New vCenter Appliance

 

Problem:

Deploying a brand new vCSA 6.7 appliance results in the following error during the second stage of the deployment.

 

 

Solution:

This problem is almost always caused by DNS resolution. Once you create the appropriate A and … continue reading

Author RyanPosted on October 28, 2020January 14, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags vmware

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