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Project FlashCast – upload and consume blobs simultaneously
An offhand comment by my business counterpart went something like this: "the partner wants to be...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 07/25/2018
A Power BI Data Analytics Pipeline for ISVs
In this blog I set out an architecture for a data analytics pipeline that starts with an SQL Server...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 06/14/2018
Bootstrap your Container-Based Azure Function
This blog builds on this Azure docs document, but starts with my own code rather than a pre-canned...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 04/30/2018
Using Microsoft Azure Video Indexer
This blog takes the developer through having an Azure subscription to processing video with Azure...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 03/26/2018
Microsoft Azure: Send Diagnostic Monitoring Data from a Windows IaaS VM to an Event Hub, Part 2
In Part 1 I went into the details of configuring an IaaS VM with a trivial configuration file using...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 07/14/2017
Microsoft Azure: Send Diagnostic Monitoring Data from a Windows IaaS VM to an Event Hub
Use this article as a backgrounder on this topic. It deals primarily with monitoring Cloud Services...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 07/14/2017
Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 5
For Part 1 of this blog series, which contains overview material, please click here. There are...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 07/08/2017
Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 4
For Part 1 of this blog series, which contains overview material, please click here. There are...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 07/08/2017
Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 3
For Part 1 of this blog series, which contains overview material, please click here. There are...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 07/08/2017
Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 2
For Part 1 of this blog series, which contains overview material, please click here. There are...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 07/08/2017
Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 1
Azure Monitor is Microsoft Azure’s built-in pipeline for searching, archiving, and routing your...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 04/17/2017
High(er) Availability Solution for Single-Instance Roles
Some I.T. system architectures include single-instance roles (a single VM in the role), whether...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 09/02/2016
Passing Complex Parameters to New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment inside an Azure Automation Runbook
An Azure Automation Runbook can be triggered by a webhook and this allows external events to...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 08/16/2016
Shortest path to Azure Automation DSC + Chocolatey VM
Let’s create the smallest useful Azure Automation-controlled setup including one configured VM:...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 12/22/2015
Continuous Deployment to IaaS VMs Using Azure Automation DSC + Chocolatey
The content of this post is now an Azure documentation page here....
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 09/22/2015
Developing DSC scripts for the Azure Resource Manager DSC Extension
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) has been out for a while and there are lots of folks...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 09/01/2015
Rapid automated deployments (large or small) in Microsoft Azure
Azure Task Manager (ATM) is a DevOps tool that enables you to deploy Microsoft Azure compute assets...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 02/18/2015
OAuth Authentication using Python, REST and Azure AD
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) uses OAuth 2.0 to enable you to authorize access to web...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 01/11/2015
Use Remote PowerShell to Manage Your Azure PaaS Compute Instances
Update: Please find complete source for this solution here: WinRM-Azure-PaaS The Windows...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 11/28/2014
Azure Hybrid Connections – Connect to Protected Resources
Azure Hybrid Connections make it easy to create secure connections between protected resources and...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 11/21/2014
Azure Hybrid Connections + Java = Connected Mobile Apps
Enterprise mobile apps probably need a connection to some kind of on-premises resource, such as a...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 11/11/2014
A Custom Logging Solution for Microsoft Azure
Premise Have you ever worked on a multi-instanced service and needed to see a stream of logs...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 10/13/2014
Utilizing the MPNS Push Service via REST API and Notification Hubs
Technorati Tags: Azure,NotificationHubs,REST,MPNS,Push,Notifications,Tessel,Node.js,ServiceBus My...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 09/02/2014
Custom Probe + Port ACLs on ASP.NET Web Farm
I was asked recently how to take a Windows Azure Infrastructure Services VM (IaaS VM) out of the...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 06/10/2013
Go Live Partners Series: Extended Results, Inc.
Founded in 2006, Redmond, Washington based traditional ISV Extended Results...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 06/21/2012
Go Live Partners Series: Rare Crowds
Founded in 2012, Bellevue, Washington based Rare Crowds (https://wp.rarecrowds.com), is a SaaS Cloud...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 06/21/2012
Go Live Partners Series: Cloud49, LLC.
Founded in 2010 and based in Anchorage, Alaska, Cloud49 LLC (https://www.cloud49.com) is a BizSpark...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 04/30/2012
Auto-scaling Azure with WASABi–From the Ground Up
(The information in this post was created using Visual Studio 2010, the January refresh of the...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 04/26/2012
Windows Azure Diagnostics–From the Ground Up
(The information in this post was created using Visual Studio 2010 and the Windows Azure SDK 1.6 in...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 04/21/2012
Go Live Partners Series: Wealth Habit, Inc.
Angel-funded startup and Bizspark member Wealth Habit (https://wealthhabit.com/) is a Cloud Services...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 03/29/2012
Installing Windows Features in a Windows Azure Role Instance
In this posting I’ll talk about my experiences and final solution to what is usually a simple...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 08/15/2011
Automating Blob Uploads, Part 2
I tossed out a challenge in a comment I left on the first of this series – there’s a problem with...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 06/14/2011
Automating Blob Uploads
In my travels I hear about a lot of patterns of cloud computing. One that I hear frequently is...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 06/11/2011
Accumulus Makes Subscription Billing Easy for Windows Azure
The Accumulus Subscription and Usage Billing System enables businesses to find more success with...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 02/21/2011
Azure Email-Enables Lists, Low-Cost Storage for SharePoint
vorApps for SharePoint Online delivers an email enabled information management solution leveraging...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 02/14/2011
Installing a Windows Service in a Windows Azure Worker Role
It might seem like a giant leap backward to bother with installing a Windows service in a...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 02/11/2011
Putting data in cold storage with Windows Azure Table
Sometimes the data that’s being kept in SQL Azure relational storage doesn’t really need to be...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 02/08/2011
Accommodating Your Batch Window in Windows Azure
Certain functions of a system need to run once per day in a typical “batch window” scenario. You...
Author: Greg Oliver (CSE) Date: 01/26/2011