While the Hyper-V management console is cozy and can certainly get the job done, I think there are a handful of PowerShell cmdlets that can make your life easier. In our environment, we have a bunch of Windows Server 2012 R2 core Edition as hyper-v host with 5o odd VMs running on them. If you are in similar sort of situation and wondering how to quickly restore them if there is a problem, then think about a strategy which meet your needs. It's important to have onsite or offs

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