Following on from my previous blog post showing how to configure PHP 8.1 based NGINX Azure App Services, another common change is wanting to update PHP.ini config to do things such as increase the max upload file size and timezone etc. When using Apache, PHP options can be set in the .htaccess file at a … Read more
As of 28th November 2022 PHP 7.4 will no longer be supported and as such users must migrate onto the latest supported version PHP 8.1. NOTE: Windows based Azure app services do not support PHP 8.1 and as such will no longer be supporting PHP after this date. So, in the various environments I manage … Read more
Having deployed a large Azure VMWare Solution (AVS) environment last year with just under 300 VMs and x7 nodes, we started seeing issues with our backup infrastructure not performing and in some cases failing completely. Before I detail my findings and the solution I will give a brief overview of how AVS backups work. Microsoft … Read more
Recently it was brought to my attention that one of our Azure SQL managed instances was not sending SMTP mail via our on prem SMTP server, with an error suggesting it could not make a network connection. But, surely not… I had checked the outbound NSG rules and on prem firewall rules, in both cases … Read more
I recently came across a problem where a couple of our Azure SQL VMs (Yeah, I know.) were failing their differential backups because of a broken backup chain. The order of backups was as follows: SQL full backup taken Sunday 8pm – Successful SQL differential backup taken Monday 8pm – Successful Azure VM backup taken … Read more