As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

Managed Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platform Microsoft has reported ...

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Last month we looked at how to set up nested VMs in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016. Azure, of course, runs on Hyper-V and some regions already have some of their hosts upgraded to Windows Server 2016.

Using Azure's "virtual machine agent," you can reset the local administrator password without even hitting the Windows OS itself. Here's how. When a Windows server is located on-premises and you ...

It’s time to get off Windows and SQL Server 2012 (or run them on Azure) Your email has been sent The release of Windows Server 2022 is a good reminder that older ...

With Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ending in July 2019, to be followed six months later by the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020 ...