Move Azure resources across regions using Azure Resource Mover

Have you been ever in a situation where you had to move Azure resources socially VMs, Disk and Storage Accounts across the regions using some PowerShell scripts? I have encountered this situation multiple times where I moved VMs, Disks across regions. Using PowerShell is time consuming and tedious process. Most of the resources cannot move….

Deploy Generation 2 VMs in Azure

Recently at Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced GA of Generation 2 VMs in Azure. Customers have been asking this for a very long time. Microsoft introduced Gen 2 VMs in Windows Server 2012 R2 but wasn’t available in Azure. But now we can deploy Gen 2 VMs in Azure thanks to the Microsoft. Generation 2 VMs…

Swap OS Disk of an Azure VM

Have you ever been in a situation where you did the troubleshooting for a VM by attaching its OS Disk as Data Disk to other Azure VM? Then created Azure VM out of that OS Disk. It’s a painful process. What if we can swap the existing OS Disk of an Azure VM? So you…

Add NIC to Azure VM using Azure Portal

In this blog post, I will show you how can you add NIC to Azure VM using Azure Portal. As well as, how can you remove that. Previously It was not possible using Portal but Microsoft has enabled this capability for the Azure Portal as well. Before you add an additional NIC to the VM…

Create a Domain Controller in Azure

In this blog post, I will show you how can you create a Domain Controller in Azure on Windows VM running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. Assuming you have already created a Windows VM in Azure running on Windows Server 2016. (You can use the same steps for 2012, 2012 R2 and 2019) Now follow the…