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John Savill is a Windows technical specialist, an 11-time MVP, and an MCSE for Private Cloud and Server Infrastructure 2012. He's also Azure certified, ITIL certified and a CISSP. John is the author of the popular FAQ for Windows and a senior contributing editor to Windows IT Pro, as well as the author of Mastering Hyper-V 2012 R2 with System Center and Azure (Wiley) and Mastering Azure Infrastructure Services (Wiley). John's blog is available at Savilltech.com.

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Does an Azure co-administrator have rights over Azure AD

Understand how co-administrator rights of a subscription impact rights on Azure AD instances.

Can you mix Storage Spaces Direct and shared storage in a cluster?

Learn about what storage can be mixed in a 2016 cluster

Check for a switch with PowerShell script

Uses switches with your PowerShell scripts

If I am a Office 365 Global Admin am I Azure AD Global Admin?

Learn about roles between Azure AD and Office 365

Change Azure resource tag values

Easily check tag values of Azure resources uses PowerShell

Requirements for Azure AD Connect Health usage

Understand what you need to use Azure AD Connect

Understand why passwords cannot be changed in Azure AD sometimes

Understand requirements to change passwords in Azure AD especially when replicating from on-premises AD.

Check if a user or group exists in AD using PowerShell

Easily check if user or group exists with PowerShell

Deploy highly available RADIUS services with Windows Server

Learn how to make RADIUS with NPS highly available.

DPM and Resilient Change Tracking

What is required to use Resilient Change Tracking with DPM 2016? Find out.

How can I move an ARM VM between availability sets

Learn about the options to moving VMs between availability sets.

Using nested virtualization with Windows 10

Understand nested virtualization availability with Windows 10

TrimEnd with a string not doing what you expect!

TrimEnd with a string trimming more than you expected with PowerShell? Find out why.

Licenses required for containers with Windows Server

Find out licensing requirements for containers on windows server

Comments

Why is scaling out preferred over scaling up?

November 23, 2016

Martin - Agree. That is why I said generally. If you look at most modern operating systems they charge by core rather than OS instance and most clouds charge the same way. For...

Understand virtual network peering in Azure

August 29, 2016

good catch, fixed Tim :-)

Q. Can I use the same storage account for all the VMs in an availability set?

May 18, 2016

I agree its not guaranteed to be different stamps but it may be which may give some additional resiliency. I wasn't saying it as an iron guarantee :-) ZRS/GRS gives additional...

Configure a Service to Run in its Own svchost Process

December 15, 2014

updated :-)

PowerShell Storage Space Creation Tips

October 7, 2014

This is expected. You are using an environment based on Windows Server 2012 R2 to create (Windows PE 5) then trying to read on a prior version, Windows Server 2012.

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