Last month we looked at how to set up nested VMs in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016. Azure, of course, runs on Hyper-V and some regions already have some of their hosts upgraded to Windows Server 2016.

Here's what to do (and what not to do) when you want to move a workload to the cloud using a virtual machine on someone else's metal. There are many reasons to move workloads to the cloud and there ...

How to create and deploy a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure Your email has been sent One of the primary functions of cloud computing services like Microsoft Azure is the creation, deployment, and ...

How to create a Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure Your email has been sent In an era when millions of employees in the global workforce have been compelled to work from remote locations as a ...

Uploading a Hyper-V virtual machine to Microsoft Azure is surprisingly easy to do, but there is a lot of prep work that must be done in order to get the virtual machine ready to upload. Much of this ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

There are various benefits to creating a cloud VM; however, we have noticed that in many circumstances, we cannot connect to the VM (Azure VDI VM) using RDP or Remote Desktop Protocol. This issue can ...

Using Azure's "virtual machine agent," you can reset the local administrator password without even hitting the Windows OS itself. Here's how. When a Windows server is located on-premises and you ...

Introduced with PowerShell v4, Desired State Configuration (DSC) was a significant shift in the way that changes are made with PowerShell. Administrators now could declare configuration declaratively ...