Microsoft Azure ARC and Manage your Infrastructure
Azure Arc for servers (preview) allows you to manage your Windows and Linux machines hosted outside of Azure on your corporate network or other cloud provider, similarly to how you manage native Azure virtual machines. When a hybrid machine is connected to Azure, it becomes a connected machine and is treated as a resource in Azure.
Azure ARC
Generate a script to onboard target machine.
Read more here for connecting hybrid Machine.
Microsoft Windows Admin Center is a web based App working in your modern browser like Edge or Chrome to manage your datacenter infrastructure. You can download it here
You can manage Windows Servers, Windows10 Desktops, Clusters, Hyperconverged Clusters, Storage Spaces Direct and more in a Hybrid environment and that’s what I like.
My Servers can be on-premises or in the Cloud like Azure and will manage them with Windows Admin Center.
This Inside Azure Management E-Book is a Must Have for All Azure Cloud Administrators! It’s made by Great Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP’s)
who are working always with Microsoft Azure Cloud Services.You can download this Awesome Inside Azure Management E-Book here.
With 30+ Community talks, learning sessions, and skill-building activities exploring Minecraft, MakeCode, Visual Studio, AI, Azure, and more, there is something here for every student and every level of experience!
Azure Migrate VDI to Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)
Microsoft Azure Migrate services makes the transition to Azure Cloud services for customers easier to make the right decisions after you did an assessment.
Assessment and migration feature available in Azure Migrate Portal:
Servers: Assess on-premises servers and migrate them to Azure virtual machines.
Databases: Assess on-premises databases and migrate them to Azure SQL Database or to an Azure SQL Database managed instance.
Web applications: Assess on-premises web applications and migrate them to Azure App Service by using the Azure App Service Migration Assistant.
Virtual desktops: Assess your on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and migrate it to Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure.
Data: Migrate large amounts of data to Azure quickly and cost-effectively using Azure Data Box products.
Lakeside SysTrack assessment tool for VDI
One of the feature is the Assessment and Migration of VDI ( Microsoft RDS, VMware, Citrix ) to Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Cloud infrastructure. Lakeside Software’s Windows Virtual Desktop Assessment with SysTrackis a cloud hosted data analytics solution that enables IT to capture detailed metrics and data about end user environments. This on-demand tool provides IT with a self service platform to assess and quantify user, application and infrastructure requirements in order to successfully transform a desktop environment. Leveraging this tool, IT can accelerate time to value and ensure that their environments are right-sized to best meet end user requirements.
In the Following Microsoft Mechanics video you see How to migrate Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to Azure and Windows Virtual Desktop :
Hope this will help you with your transition to the Microsoft Azure Cloud 👍😎🚀
Earlier I wrote a blogpost about Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Standalone Cluster for Dev testing. This was 5 – Node Azure Service Fabric Cluster locally installed, but now I like to have a bigger ASF Cluster on my
Windows Server 2019 for testing with Visual Studio.
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers.
When you want to great your own Azure Service Fabric Cluster for Production, you have to prepare your self and making a plan before you build.
When you have your Azure Service Fabric Standalone Cluster running, you want to deploy your microservices, apps or containers on it and test your solution. In the following steps I deploy with Visual Studio a Web App to Azure Service Fabric Cluster Standalone version 7.1.409
Monitor, diagnose, and gain insight into the performance and availability of your applications and services with Azure Monitor. In this video, you’ll learn how to use Azure Monitor to collect, analyze and act on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.
Learn how to create time series charts of platform and resource metrics for visualization and analysis with Azure Monitor. Start in Azure Monitor to view metrics across multiple resources or start directly from individual resource blades. You will also learn how to add metrics charts to dashboards in the Azure portal for real-time monitoring and shared access across teams.
In this video, learn about action rules and how you can use them to configure actions and notifications for multiple alerts at scale across a subscription, resource group, and target resource.
In this video, learn how alerts enable you to proactively identify and address issues before it impacts the users of your system. Alerts are created on performance and availability data and can be associated with user-defined actions and notification mechanisms.
In this video, learn how to use source map support in Azure Monitor Application Insights to improve the diagnosis of client-side JavaScript errors. Source maps can be used to unminify call stacks found on the Application Insights end to end transaction details page.
Here you find more information about Microsoft Azure Monitor:
If you like to test the new features of Windows 10 and give feedback to the Microsoft product team, then the Windows Insiders Program is the place to Join. Here you can become a Windows Insider
I’m a Windows Insider since 2014 and a Windows Insider MVP since July 2019 and I love the collaboration with the Community and with the Microsoft Product Team to make a better product like Windows 10 together.
On my windows Insiders Build version 19613, I like to have my tools and Apps installed like :
I’m in the Microsoft Windows Insiders FAST Ring, and I want to test everything like Windows 10 operating system but my Tools must also be working on every new Windows Insiders Build.
Installing WSL 2 and Windows Terminal on Windows Insider Build version
When both dism commands are successfully completed, you have to restart your machine.
wsl –set-default-version 2
Now you have set WSL 2 version in the basic, but you have to install a Linux distro where you can find here in the Microsoft Store
I installed Kali Linux distro from the Microsoft Store.
Enter a New User name and password.
Kali Linux distro is now running on WSL 2 on my Windows Insiders Build.
One of the Cool features in Windows Insiders Build version 19613 is that you can use your File explorer for Kali Linux 😉
Linux in Windows Insider Explorer.
Exploring Kali Linux
And of course updating the Kali Linux distro with
Sudo apt-get update
And at last…….
sudo apt-get upgrade
The Next tool is Windows Terminal (Preview) from the Microsoft Store
Just Click on Get ( in the Microsoft Store)
Click on Launch
This Windows Terminal Preview version on Windows Insiders can run :
Command Prompt
Powershell
Kali Linux distro (WSL 2)
Azure CloudShell
From here I can Manage and Install Microsoft Azure Cloud Services with Cloud Shell running on my Windows Insiders Build
for testing all the new features and this goes really easy :
Click next to PowerShell in the pulldown bar on Azure Cloud Shell and copy the Code
into the next URL https://microsoft.com/devicelogin
Enter here your Code from Windows Terminal.
Done you are logged-In Azure via Windows Terminal on Windows Insiders Build.
Azure Cloud Shell in Windows Terminal 😉
Conclusion
The Windows Insiders Program is Awesome to join when you like to test the Newest features of Windows 10 but also the Tools and applications running on the newest Windows Insiders Build version are Cool. When you work with Fast ring releases and Preview versions of tools you can hit a bug, or something is not working. That’s the moment you give feedback in the Windows Insider Feedback HUB to support the Microsoft Windows Insiders Product Team to fix the Bug.
Together we are building for the future of Windows 10 !
Windows Insider Program Feedback Hub.
And as a Windows Insider you can earn Badges for your Support 😉
