
Operations Management Suite agent deployment with Powershell for Azure VMs
This post was originally published to Martynas' personal cloud blog MagicMarty.eu. You can read it here. Azure provides easy way to deploy Operations Management Suite (OMS) agents on Azure VMs. All you need to do is to navigate to Log Analytics blade, choose Virtual Machines from Data Sources and select which VMs you want to add to OMS workspace by clicking Connect on the VM. But what if you have hundreds or even thousands of VMs running on Azure? This is not going to be an e

Hosting your SQL Server in Azure: What are my Options?
Hosting your SQL Server databases in Azure has to be one the biggest success stories of Microsoft's cloud platform. Currently there are in excess of 1.7 million instances of Azure SQL Database, Microsoft's Platform-as-a-Service offering. Microsoft also allow you to host your SQL Server databases using Infrastructure-as-a-Service, or SQL-in-a-VM, both of which are viable options for business. However, one of the most common things we get asked when talking to customers about t