Often it can be useful for other teams and departments to edit and run their own Azure automation runbooks, however, this creates a challenge – permissions. Runbooks live and are managed from within Azure Automation accounts which are in turn connected to log analytics workspaces and their associated agents. Both automation accounts and log analytics … Read more
Recently I was tasked with migrating an ageing Ubuntu 14.04 server up to Azure with the chosen method being ASR (Azure Site Recovery). I was led to use ASR due to failed Azure migrate attempts with lots of undesirable results. One undesirable result that was consistent with both methods however was the serial console connection … Read more
First, I must start off with a confession here. I totally borked the file permissions I am about to show you the first time I did this and was subsequently up until 5am rebuilding the server. Do this at your own risk and as with all production changes be careful! Recently I was tasked with … Read more