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Comment on Azure SQL Data Sync by Brian J Hoskins

Brian J Hoskins — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 17:18:47 +0000

Thank you for sharing this information. I am relatively new to Azure database sync and I was confused as to why schema changes at the member side would result in sync errors on the Azure side.

Now I understand that the schema change has to be manually implemented at each end point. A pain, to be honest, but it works and that’s the main thing!

Comment on Creating And Restoring Azure Virtual Machine Snapshots For Managed Disks by Francois Delport

Francois Delport — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 22:38:08 +0000

In reply to Ralph Herold. Thanks for pointing it out, I updated the post.

Comment on Creating And Restoring Azure Virtual Machine Snapshots For Managed Disks by Ralph Herold

Ralph Herold — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:53:17 +0000

Hi, since a couple of weeks there is a Swap OS Disk function for managed disks. This together with the Swap Data Disk function should make it possible to have an easy way to restore a VM snapshot without all the hassle of re-creating the whole VM. @Francois, can you please update your script so we can have true VM snapshot functionality in Azure? Many thnx

Comment on Azure Blob Cache And Disk Performance by Francois Delport

Francois Delport — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:45:27 +0000

In reply to Jonathan Boarman. I used IOMeter but I don't have the test files/config any more.

Comment on Azure Blob Cache And Disk Performance by Jonathan Boarman

Jonathan Boarman — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:50:07 +0000

Can you share any of your code that you used for testing?

Comment on Adding Custom Log Files To OMS Log Analytics by Francois Delport

Francois Delport — Sat, 26 May 2018 11:24:54 +0000

In reply to Brandon. Hi Brandon, I never tried it before but I don't think it is possible with ARM templates. The Custom Log resources are not showing in the ARM reference documentation. You can do it with PowerShell it that helps link.

Comment on Release From Visual Studio Team Services To On-Premise Servers Using Web Deploy by Francois Delport

Francois Delport — Sat, 26 May 2018 09:22:54 +0000

In reply to RB. Yes you need the VSTS agent installed on a machine inside your network. To use that agent to build it is easiest to install Visual Studio instead of installing individual components.

Comment on Adding Custom Log Files To OMS Log Analytics by Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 25 May 2018 16:50:55 +0000

Hi Francois,

Do you know if it is possible to configure custom log collection via an ARM template or something similar. I would love to configure settings in a JSON format versus having to use the OMS Custom Log setup wizard, especially when I have several different Custom Logs to setup.

Thanks in advance.

Comment on Release From Visual Studio Team Services To On-Premise Servers Using Web Deploy by RB

RB — Wed, 23 May 2018 21:10:39 +0000

Wont this require Visual Studio or at least the Build Tools installed on the server where the private agent is located?

Comment on Adding Custom Log Files To OMS Log Analytics by Francois Delport

Francois Delport — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 01:53:35 +0000

In reply to Lalitha. Yes, you don't specify the VM name only the path to the logfiles. The agent will be collecting the logs in that path on all VMs.