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If you are actively using Azure VM workloads, you should probably enable Security Center now
With being able to bring up and tear down VMs in a matter of minutes in Azure, it’s easy to lose visibility of our VM workloads. This is where Azure Security Center fills that gap. When enabled, it constantly collects data and reports about your VM workloads and…
Enemy of the State? What you need to know about Dynamics CRM Plugins
I recently had a conversation with a highly experienced CRM developer, who did not understand why CRM plugins need to be stateless. He was trying to write a plugin in a stateful manner, and I had to show him the error of his ways. If such a senior developer can make a…
“Cannot open Sql Encryption Symmetric Key because Symmetric Key password does not exist in Config DB” in Dynamics CRM 2016 with Azure Service Bus Integration
Ran into this error with one of our customers while trying to register a service endpoint for Azure Service Bus integration with Dynamics CRM 2016 SP1 (on-prem.) We were using a shared access key (SAS) for authentication. Unhandled Exception:…
Failed to start virtual machine ‘vm-name’. Error: Handler ‘Microsoft.Azure.Security.Monitoring’ has reported failure for VM Extension ‘Monitoring’ with terminal error code ‘1007’
While I was changing diagnostics storage settings in Azure, I started getting error messages for some of my VMs while de-allocating them or powering them up and down. Failed to start virtual machine ‘vm-name’. Error: Handler ‘Microsoft.Azure.Security.Monitoring’ has…
Subscription Services in the Cloud Market
We’ve been getting a great response to our PartnerPass offering and we’re very excited by the conversations we’ve been having about how subscription services make sense for organizations that invest in cloud software. For customers that already have cloud systems and…
Microsoft Azure Advisor Enters Preview
Last month Microsoft released the preview for Azure Advisor in the resource manager portal. The app essentially scans your Azure subscription resources and looks for potential performance/security issues and recommendations. Below is screenshot of the application…
How to TRUNCATE a SQL Server Table from a SYNONYM Name
If you work in an environment where your SQL Server database procedures need to frequently reference data in other databases or on other servers, it can be difficult to implement development, test, and production environments while still maintaining a single code-base…
Using RAISERROR with THROW to Throw a SQL Server System Error
THROW replaces RAISERROR in SQL Server and it’s the preferred method going forward to raise error messages and push them to the calling code. THROW is actually a lot more intuitive than RAISERROR as far as how your code responds to it. THROW was created as a means to…
Microsoft targets the High Performance Computing (HPC) market with the introduction of the H series VM SKUs
Microsoft has described the H series VM as “a new family specifically designed to handle high performance computing workloads such as financial risk modeling, seismic and reservoir simulation, molecular modeling and genomic research. They are based on the Intel Xeon…
Azure Storage Performance Results with Encryption at Rest Enabled
In September, Microsoft finally announced Azure encryption support for data at rest, a long awaited feature by many companies which are bound by regulation and requirements. The great thing about this is you can easily enable encryption by toggling it to ‘On’ in the…
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