Hey folks I recently deployed a NetScaler 12 VPX appliance onto a vSphere 6.5 environment and came across an issue where the appliance seemed to be running at 100% CPU even though it wasn’t doing anything. This didn’t seem right so I did a big of digging and it turns out it is a …
VMware Workstation 14 upgrade failed to start the VMware Authorization Service
I recently upgraded my VMware Workstation to 14.1.2 build-8497320 so it was fully supported on the latest build of Windows 10. When attempting to power on a VM after the upgrade and reboot I received the following error: “VMware Workstation failed to start the VMware Authorization Service” After doing a quick Google (that’s how we …
Deploying Citrix PVS 7.17
One of my favourite Citrix products is Citrix PVS aka Provisioning Services. I first came across this product back in 2012 when it was being used for deploying a Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 Farm. This was back in my tech support days and I didn’t really take much notice. Roll forward 2 years and I …
Configuring Azure Site-to-Site VPN with Draytek 2860 router
To keep the costs of my Azure subscription down I still wanted to run some resources on my existing home lab rather than shift everything into AWS or Azure as I found this would be quite an expensive thing to do!! The solution I have put in place is to extend my home lab into …
Connecting to Azure App MySQL Instance remotely
I recently made a mistake on my WordPress site which left me unable to let me into the Admin console. Big boo boo!! After a bit of research I found the solution which was to go into the MySQL Database and edit some fields on the WordPress database. Now, on a normal WordPress hosted site …
Configuring SSL on Azure Web App custom URL
In my previous post I went through the steps to configure WordPress on Azure. In this post I will configure a SSL Certificate for the custom URL that was configured. This is a multistep process which involves: Creating the certificate Creating a Keyvault Importing the certificate into the Keyvault Assigning the certificate to the App …
Migrating WordPress to Azure App
I recently migrated my WordPress blog over to Azure as I was getting frustrated with the lack of control and there was a issue with PHP versioning that my hosting provider couldn’t seem to resolve. The process was ridiculously easy so I thought I would document the steps here if somebody is thinking about doing …
2017–A year in review
As 2017 comes to a close I like to sit and think what I have achieved this year and what can be done better looking forward to 2018. It has been a pretty busy and good year. The following things happened for me: I passed the following Microsoft exams to achieve MCSE Solutions Export Cloud …
Azure Backups
One of the most common use cases for Azure is the Backup facility. The Azure Backup service enables multiple resources to be backed up and stored in the Azure cloud. There are multiple benefits of this including: Security – Data is encrypted and stored within Microsoft’s secure data centers. Ease of use – As you …
Azure Availability Zones
In my previous post(https://itsolutionsdirect.com/designing-vm-deployments-by-leveraging-availability-sets-fault-domains-and-update-domains-in-azure/904/) we discussed the theory behind Azure Availability Sets and how to implement them. Whilst Azure Availability Set’s protect you from host maintenance/failure within the datacentre, they do not protect you from a complete datacentre failure. This is where Azure Availability Zones come into play. When you deploy an VM’s into an …