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Azure Cloud Shell in VSC

Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work. Linux users can opt for a Bash experience, while Windows users can opt for PowerShell

Here you find the Installation of Azure Cloud Shell in Visual Studio Code

As Easy as this 😉

More Technical information about Azure Cloud Shell on Microsoft Docs

UPDATE on Project Honolulu with Jeff Woolsey @WSV_GUY #Winserv #Hyperv #Azure

In this episode, Microsoft takes a look at updates to Project Honolulu and PowerShell Core to manage your server infrastructure. Jeff Woolsey explains the updates IT pros will want to know about and demonstrates what’s new in Project Honolulu – including Remote Desktop Protocol, Windows client management and PowerShell support. Speaking of PowerShell, Jeff also shows how everything has evolved to PowerShell Core, so you can manage your Windows and Linux workloads from one unified scripting place. You’ll even see how with a single cmdlet, you can talk to both Windows and Linux machines and get cross-platform joined outputs.

More information about Microsoft Project Honolulu

Project Honolulu is a flexible, lightweight browser-based locally-deployed platform and a solution for management scenarios. One of Microsoft goals with Project Honolulu is to make it simpler and easier to connect existing deployments of Windows Server to Azure services. With Windows Server 2019 and Project Honolulu, customers will be able to easily integrate Azure services such as Azure Backup, Azure File Sync, disaster recovery, and much more so they will be able to leverage these Azure services without disrupting their applications and infrastructure.

Introducing Windows Server 2019 – now available in preview

Evaluate Project Honolulu

Microsoft Azure #CloudShell Overview with #Bash CLI 2.0 and #Powershell #Azure #DevOps

Azure Powershell in the Portal

Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It gives you the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work. Linux users can opt for a Bash experience, while Windows users can opt for PowerShell.

At the left corner you can change from Powershell Cmd to Bash

Bash with Azure CLI 2.0 

Features
Browser-based shell experience
Cloud Shell enables access to a browser-based command-line experience built with Azure management tasks in mind. Leverage Cloud Shell to work untethered from a local machine in a way only the cloud can provide.

Choice of preferred shell experience
Azure Cloud Shell gives you the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work. Linux users can opt for a Bash experience, while Windows users can opt for PowerShell.

Pre-configured Azure workstation
Cloud Shell comes pre-installed with popular command-line tools and language support so you can work faster.

View the full tooling list for Bash experience and PowerShell experience.

Automatic authentication
Cloud Shell securely authenticates automatically on each session for instant access to your resources through the Azure CLI 2.0 or Azure PowerShell cmdlets.

Connect your Azure File storage
Cloud Shell machines are temporary and as a result require an Azure Files share to be mounted as clouddrive to persist your $Home directory. On first launch Cloud Shell prompts to create a resource group, storage account, and file share on your behalf. This is a one-time step and will be automatically attached for all sessions. A single file share can be mapped and will be used by both Bash and PowerShell in Cloud Shell.

• Persisting Storage in Bash
• Persisting Storage in Powershell

I like Microsoft Azure CLI 2.0 in the Cloud Shell and here you find a CLI 2.0 command line reference guide.

In the following step-by-step examples ( in Bash and Powershell ) you will see how easy it is to make an Azure Container Instance in the Cloud.
we begin with starting Bash Shell from the Azure Portal.

When you run Cloud Shell for the first time it will create a Cloud Drive of 5GB.

Cloud Shell machines are temporary and as a result require an Azure Files share to be mounted as clouddrive to persist your $Home directory. On first launch Cloud Shell prompts to create a resource group, storage account, and file share on your behalf. This is a one-time step and will be automatically attached for all sessions. A single file share can be mapped and will be used by both Bash and PowerShell in Cloud Shell.

Create Storage for your CloudDrive

A locally-redundant storage (LRS) account and Azure Files share can be created on your behalf. The Azure Files share will be used for both Bash and PowerShell environments if you choose to use both. Regular storage costs apply.

• Cloud Shell runs on a temporary machine provided on a per-session, per-user basis
• Cloud Shell times out after 20 minutes without interactive activity
• Cloud Shell can only be accessed with a file share attached
• Cloud Shell uses a the same file share for both Bash and PowerShell
• Cloud Shell is assigned one machine per user account
• Permissions are set as a regular Linux user (Bash)

az container create -h

With this command you see the options to create a Container Instance in Microsoft Azure Cloud.

You see also some examples to learn from

az group create –name MyResourceGroup –location eastus

We now created a resource group in the East US location of Azure for our Container.

az container create –name mycontainer –image microsoft/aci-helloworld –resource-group MyResourceGroup –ip-address public

We now Created an Azure Container Instance.

ProvisioningState Succeeded

az container list –output table

The result of your Azure Container Instance

To see how your Azure Container Instance is doing, you can read the logs.

az container logs –name mycontainer –resource-group MyResourceGroup

When your Azure Container Instance was for testing, you can delete the instance by :

az container delete –name mycontainer  –resource-group MyResourceGroup

az container list –output table

I got two Azure Container Instances running, and now you can see that mycontainer instance is deleted.
This was just an simple example by using Bash in the Azure Portal with CLI 2.0 commands. Of course there are a lot of Azure Solutions to play with:

In the following step-by-step example we will use Azure Powershell from the portal instead of Bash :

$PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Microsoft Azure Powershell via the Portal is using version 5.1 Build 14393 Revision 1480 in my example.
Of course there is also an Azure Powershell reference guide online

New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name MyResourceGroup -Location EastUS

We now have created the Resource Group with Azure Powershell for the Container Instance.

New-AzureRmContainerGroup -ResourceGroupName MyResourceGroup -name mycontainer -image microsoft/iis:nanoserver -OsType Windows -IpAddressType Public

Get-AzureRmContainerGroup -ResourceGroupName MyResourceGroup -Name mycontainer

You will see that the New Azure Container Instance is provisioned.

Get-AzureRmContainerGroup

And the IIS is running in the Azure Container Instance.

Of course you don’t have your laptop always with you, but Microsoft Azure has an Awesome Mobile App to work with.

 

Mobile Azure Powershell via the App

Mobile Azure Bash via the App

Here you can get the Microsoft Azure Mobile App

Here are some handy links to use with Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell :

Deploy resources with Resource Manager templates and Azure CLI

Deploy resources with Resource Manager templates and Azure PowerShell

Overview of Azure Cloud Shell (Preview)

Microsoft Azure Cloud Roadmap

Use Microsoft Azure #Cloud Shell for Management #Azure #CLI #Powershell

Overview of Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell

PowerShell in the Azure Portal… Almost!

Join #Microsoft Community Event of the Year #ExpertsLive2016 Register Now!

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National and International community experts talk with visitors fully with latest Microsoft technologies in one day. Through the years, well-known speakers and MVPs are associated with this event.
This year find Experts Live on Tuesday 22nd November. Experts Live 2016 offers more than 40 breakout sessions, an opening and closing keynote !

Go to the Website of Experts Live and Register to Join the Microsoft Community world Experts Live 2016 Event

Hope to meet your there 😉

#NanoServer TP5 IaaS Image in the #Azure Gallery

Select Windows Server 2016  Technical Preview 5 NanoServer

Click Create

Choose your Server by clicking on view all

Configure your settings.

Here you find an awesome blogpost about Nano Server TP5 IaaS Image in the Azure Gallery and Powershell CMD’s

Exploring #NanoServer for Windows Server 2016 with @Jsnover #Powershell

Microsoft Chief Architect, Enterprise Cloud, Jeffrey Snover, takes a closer look at Nano server – the secure new headless deployment option for Windows Server 2016. He demonstrates how it gives you the lightest and fastest option with significantly fewer patches and reboots. Watch as he shows you how to customize Nano Server for your next generation apps and highlights your management options from PowerShell to remote management.

#Microsoft Windows Server 2016 TP4 Overview is Available #MSDN #TechNet #Hyperv #NanoServer #Winserv #AzureStack

Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview (TP4)

Storage Spaces Direct seamlessly integrates with the features you know today that make up the Windows Server software defined storage stack, including Scale-Out File Server, Clustered Shared Volume File System (CSVFS), Storage Spaces and Failover Clustering

Storage Replica Overview

What’s New in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4

• What’s New in Nano Server. Nano Server now supports the DNS Server and IIS server roles, as well as MPIO, VMM, SCOM, DSC push mode, DCB, Windows Server Installer, and the WMI provider for Windows Update. Its Recovery Console supports editing and repairing the network configuration. A Windows PowerShell module is now available to simplify building Nano Server images.

• Windows Containers: Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview now includes containers, which allow many isolated applications to run on one computer system. They build fast and are highly scalable and portable. Two different types of container runtime are included with the feature, each with a different degree of application isolation. Windows Server Containers achieve isolation through namespace and process isolation. Hyper-V Containers encapsulates each container in a light weight virtual machine. For some additional information on containers, see Containers: Docker, Windows and Trends.

• What’s new in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in Windows Server Technical Preview. Active Directory Domain Services includes improvements to help organizations secure Active Directory environments and provide better identity management experiences for both corporate and personal devices.
• What’s New in Active Directory Federation Services. Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview includes new features that enable you to configure AD FS to authenticate users stored in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories. For more information, see Active Directory Federation Services Overview [Role/Tech Overview].
• What’s New in Failover Clustering in Windows Server Technical Preview. This topic explains the new and changed functionality of Failover Clustering. A Hyper-V or Scale-out File Server failover cluster can now easily be upgraded without any downtime or need to build a new cluster with nodes that are running Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview.

• What’s new in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview. This topic explains the new and changed functionality of the Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, Client Hyper-V running on Windows 10, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server Technical Preview.

• Windows Defender Overview for Windows Server Technical Preview. Windows Server Antimalware is installed and enabled by default in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, but the user interface for Windows Server Antimalware is not installed. However, Windows Server Antimalware will update antimalware definitions and protect the computer without the user interface. If you need the user interface for Windows Server Antimalware, you can install it after the operating system installation by using the Add Roles and Features Wizard.
• What’s New in Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2016. For the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, the Remote Desktop Services team focused on improvements based on customer requests. We added support for OpenGL and OpenCL applications, and added MultiPoint Services as a new role in Windows Server.
• What’s New in File and Storage Services in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview. This topic explains the new and changed functionality of Storage Services. An update in storage quality of service now enables you to create storage QoS policies on a Scale-Out File Server and assign them to one or more virtual disks on Hyper-V virtual machines. Storage Replica is a new feature that enables synchronous replication between servers for disaster recovery, as well as stretching of a failover cluster for high availability..
• What’s New in Web Application Proxy in Windows Server Technical Preview. The latest version of Web Application Proxy focuses on new features that enable publishing and preauthentication for more applications and improved user experience. Check out the full list of new features that includes preauthentication for rich client apps such as Exchange ActiveSync and wildcard domains for easier publishing of SharePoint apps.
• What’s new in the Windows console. The underlying console host (Conhost.exe) has been updated in several ways, adding new and different functionality to the Windows command prompt, the Windows PowerShell prompt, and any other character-mode applications. For details, see What’s New in the Windows Console in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview and Console Improvements in the Windows 10 Technical Preview , but you should take note of these important changes:
  • The new console functionality is enabled by default. If an existing application doesn’t work properly with the new console, you can select Use legacy console on the Options tab and then restart your application. You can also control individual aspects of the new functionality with registry keys; see details at the linked topics.
  • Console windows can be resized dynamically with the mouse. This could cause issues with some console applications.
  • Quick Edit mode is enabled by default. If this conflicts with your application, you can disable it on the Options tab.
  • There are new keyboard shortcuts for copy, paste, and history navigation. If these conflict with your application, you can disable them on the Options tab (look for Enable CTRL key shortcuts and Extended test selection keys).
  • The default font type for new console windows is TrueType. You can still use raster fonts, but they won’t scale properly on some displays.
  • Text wraps and reflows by default when you resize a window. If necessary, you can disable this on the Layouts tab.
  • In some cases, after upgrade installation, fonts in the console window might be very small. To adjust this, use the Fonts tab.
• What’s New in Windows PowerShell 5.0. Windows PowerShell 5.0 includes significant new features—including support for developing with classes, and new security features—that extend its use, improve its usability, and allow you to control and manage Windows-based environments more easily and comprehensively. Multiple new features in Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) are also described in this topic.
• What’s New in Networking in Windows Server Technical Preview. The majority of what you’ll find for networking is new in TP3. We bring a scalable network controller for programming policies, an L4 load balancer for high availability and performance, enhanced gateways for hybrid connectivity, and an underlying network fabric that converges RDMA traffic together with tenant traffic, DNS policies that control how your DNS servers respond to incoming requests, and better integration of DNS and IPAM.

 

 

You can download Microsoft Windows Server 2016 TP4 via MSDN now

Or Download Windows Server 2016 TP4 here from Microsoft Technet

Ps. Awesome that Microsoft Windows Server 2016 TP4 was Public Available on the Dutch Community event  Experts Live 2015 🙂

#Microsoft Windows Containers Overview #Hyperv #Azure #Winserv

Windows containers provide operating system level virtualization that allow you to run multiple isolated applications on one container host.

Here you find the Microsoft MSDN website about Windows Containers

Quick Start: Windows Server Containers and PowerShell

This article will walk through the fundamentals of managing Windows Server Containers with PowerShell. Items covered will include creating Windows Server Containers and Windows Server Container Images, removing Windows Server Containers and Container Images and finally deploying an application into a Windows Server Container. The lessons learned in this walkthrough should enable you to begin exploring deployment and management of Windows Server Containers using PowerShell.

Here you can find the complete Quick Start for Windows Server Containers and Powershell

Here you can find the Complete Quick Start for Windows Server Containers and Docker

Windows Server containers, Docker, and an introduction to Azure Container Service Video

#Microsoft Windows Management Framework 5.0 Production Preview #Powershell #DSC #Winserv #WMF

This release includes new features and functionality in Windows Management Framework 5.0, including the following:

• Windows PowerShell 5.0
• Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment
• Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration
• Network Switch Cmdlets
• Package Management
• Software Inventory Logging

WMF 5.0 Production Preview differs from older previews of WMF 5.0 in the following ways:

• It is fully supported until three months after WMF 5.0 RTM. By fully supported, we mean we will investigate production-blocking issues, and provide workarounds or updates as necessary.
• All features in the Production Preview are production-ready. No experimental features are in this package.
• You must uninstall all previous releases of WMF 5.0 previews before installing the WMF 5.0 Production Preview.

Your feedback about Windows Management Framework 5.0 Production Preview is valuable to us; we invite you to provide feedback at all times. For important information about changes in behavior from Windows PowerShell 4.0, and a list of known issues with this release, be sure to read the release notes that are available for download with this package. You can log bugs and suggestions by using the Microsoft Connect website.

Windows Management Framework 5.0 makes updated management functionality available for installation on Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1 Pro, Windows 8.1 Enterprise, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Please read also the awesome Windows Management Framework 5.0 Production Preview Release Notes !

Here you can download the Windows Management Framework 5.0 Production Preview