We’ve taken to deploying a Cloud Witness for almost all of our Windows Server based clusters whether Hyper-V, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), or Scale-Out File Server. When logging on to the Azure Portal this morning we were prompted to check out a number of different areas by the Azure Advisor. […]
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We started getting alerts from JetPack that our WordPress site, https://blog.mpecsinc.com, was offline. Sure enough, browsing to the site lead to a “This site is experiencing technical difficulties.” white page. Since our WordPress site is hosted in Azure, we logged on to the portal and clicked into the AppService blade […]
We’re in the process of digging in to the methodology for securing our Office 365 (O365) and Azure resources. One of the things we are doing is building an on-boarding checklist for setting up O365 and Azure tenants as we sign them up. The first place to start is the […]
The following were drawn up during a mentoring session this morning. How do I start? The first thing we need to do is get the business essentials in place. A business identity and a professional presentation are very important. An @Hotmail.Com address, or other such generic e-mail services, is definitely […]
We have a need to set up SSL certificates for a number of the WordPress sites we have set up as an Azure Web App. The simplest way to do this, at least for us, is to use the built-in CSR certificate request mechanism as we just happen to have […]
We set up some resources initially for a client setup. But, in the end we need to have several small Web Apps in the same Resource Group so we went to rename it. There is _no_ way to rename an Azure Resource Group in the portal. :S So, we click […]
A quick at-a-glance way to get an idea of just how much traffic is flowing in an Azure Web App is to pin the statistics to the Dashboard. Azure Web App: Server requests statistics To do so is a fairly simple process. Log on to the Azure Portal Click on […]
When setting up the Azure Web App for WordPress we had already set up the DNS A and TXT records needed to get the custom domain URL going. Or so we thought. Domain ownership: To verify domain ownership create TXT and A records with your DNS provider using the configuration […]