Posted on

Bulk migrate to OneDrive from personal drive with SharePoint Migration Tool (Manual)

In this manual I will explain step by step how to migrate your users from their personal drive to OneDrive using bulk migration in SharePoint Migration tool. This includes preparing the users OneDrive, granting permissions, and setup SharePoint Migration tool.

Image

Prerequisites

Before we begin, we will need a migration station, I would recommend to use a server designed for this purpose. On the migration server make sure you install the following:

Continue reading “Bulk migrate to OneDrive from personal drive with SharePoint Migration Tool (Manual)”
Posted on

How to use SharePoint Migration Tool

Last few weeks I’ve been busy with migrating file servers to SharePoint and OneDrive. For this I’ve used the SharePoint Migration tool from Microsoft. Download: Link
With just a few easy steps you are able to migrate your data to SharePoint or OneDrive.

In this manual we will focus on SharePoint only, I will create a OneDrive Manual later on including CSV instruction to perform bulk migrations.

Continue reading “How to use SharePoint Migration Tool”
Posted on

Azure Ultra Disk performance storage now available!

For very high demanding workloads, storage wise, Azure has released Ultra Disk performance tier for production use. I’ve already written about it in a previous post ( Slow IOPS in Azure VM’s? not anymore!) But now is the time to take a deeper look.

Which disk types do we have in Azure?

In the following table you can see what the difference is between all disk types in Azure. This table should help you to decide which disk to use for specific workloads.

Standard HDDStandard SSDPremium SSDUltra SSD
ScenarioBackup, Fileserver,
non-critical,
infrequent access		Webservers,
lightly used
applications and
dev/test systems		Production and
performance
workloads		IO intensive
workloads.
(SQL/Oracle/
SAP HANA)
Max disk
size		32TB32TB32TB64TB
Max
Throughput		500MiB/s750MiB/s900MiB/s2.000MiB/s
Latency8 > ms< 9 ms1 – 4 ms<1 ms
Max
IOPS		2.0006.00020.000160.000
Continue reading “Azure Ultra Disk performance storage now available!”
Posted on

Azure SQL configure Azure AD user authentication (Manual)

When moving your applications to the cloud, it makes sense to start using Azure Services to get the best service, highest availability (SLA) and worry free maintenance provided by Azure. The next step is to use Azure AD identities with Azure SQL Database.

Schematic overview of Azure SQL with AAD integration, and optionally synced from on-premise AD.

Within a few steps you will have Azure AD user authentication setup.

Continue reading “Azure SQL configure Azure AD user authentication (Manual)”
Posted on

Azure SQL, create users and assign permissions (Manual)

This simple manual has been created to create an user in Azure SQL and assign appropriate permissions. First connect to your SQL server. Either use and AAD admin account or the SQL Admin account.

Once connected, open a New Query window and run the following command on the Master database to create the user on the server in the Master database:

 CREATE LOGIN '<Username>' WITH password='<strong-password>';

Now open again a New Query window, and select the database where you want to provision permissions to the just created user. Make sure to match the Username from the command above.

CREATE USER "<Username>";

The last step is to assign the desired role to the user. Change the value of the role, and match again the Username.

EXEC sp_addrolemember 'db_datawriter', '<Username';

This should do the trick. Let me know if you have any problems or need help.

Posted on

Deploy Azure Application Gateway with http to https redirect

Azure Application Gateway is an advance type of load-balancer. Where an Azure Load-balancer routes traffic on the transport layer (OSI Layer 4 | TCP + UDP) the Application Gateway is a way more advanced load-balancer. It can route based on URL as well on path’s. On top of that it can do much more, like SSL offloading, autoscaling, redirection, multiple site hosting and the most import of all, it can include a web application firewall (WAF)

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor azure application gateway

With all the features that the Azure application gateway provides, we should be able to setup multiple websites listening on different ports and url’s behind one Azure Application Gateway with just one external IP address.

With this guide you should be able to setup an application gateway with multiple site hostname match and http to https redirect. In this manual we will be using Atlassian Jira and Confluence as an example.

So what are we going to setup:

  • Deploy Azure application gateway
  • Configure 2 external URL’s (jira.2azure.nl and confluence.2azure.nl)
  • We will redirect port 80 to 443 for both websites
  • Jira will be listening on port 8080 internally (Default port)
  • Confluence will be listening on port 8090 internally (Default port)

For this guide the VNET, subnets and the virtual machine hosting both websites have already been deployed. During this guide we will not deploy a Web Application Firewall, I will tell more about that in upcoming blog article.

The setup in an overview.
Continue reading “Deploy Azure Application Gateway with http to https redirect”
Posted on

Masterclass: Azure Basics

Tonight I was honored to give a masterclass in Azure Basics. By going over the Azure Basics using lab exercises everybody learned how to:

  • Manage Azure subscriptions and resources
  • Configure and manage virtual networks
  • Manage identities 
  • Deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs) 
  • Implement and manage storage

Special thanks to Proxsys for hosting the Masterclass!



Posted on

How to get the license key for SQL Server Reporting Services in Azure

Last week I received the question from a customer where to get the SQL license key… By default you will see the key during SQL installation, but with an Azure deployed SQL virtual machine you will never get to see the key, as its deployed from the Azure Portal.

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor sql installation wizard license key

Retreive the key from DefaultSetup.ini

So within a few clicks you will be able to retreive the key.

Continue reading “How to get the license key for SQL Server Reporting Services in Azure”
Posted on

Azure Dedicated Host (now in preview)

If you still have doubts about moving to Azure because of compliance and regulatory requirements, they will now be gone with Azure Dedicated hosts. Still in preview but ready for testing. Azure dedicated hosts are physical machines that are single-tenant configured where you can run your Linux and Windows virtual machines. This includes your own infrastructure, as well as your own maintenance policies for that host.

Visibility and control

Azure Dedicated Hosts provide visibility over the server infrastructure running your Azure Virtual Machines. You get more control over the following:

  • The underlying hardware infrastructure
  • Processor brand, capabilities, and more 
  • Number of cores
  • Type and size of the Azure Virtual Machines you want to deploy

You can mix and match different Azure Virtual Machine sizes within the same virtual machine series on a given host.

If you have any second thoughts, it is now open in preview for testing.

Posted on

Completed Azure Solutions Architect certification

Last 2 months I’ve been working on renewing my Office 365 and Azure certifications. 4 years ago I already passed the “old” exams: 533, 534, 345, 346 and 347. This saved me a few exams. I was able to upgrade to Azure Administrator and Messaging administrator by passing the upgrade exams. For the Azure Solutions Architect I had to take the AZ-300 and AZ-301 exam as an upgrade exam was only valid for those who have passed the follow up exam of 534: 535.

So here is the final result, I will be looking into the Azure Security exam in the future (AZ-500) as well as the Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert (MS100 & MS101)