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.

Using Azure's 'virtual machine agent,' you can reset the local administrator password without even hitting the Windows OS itself. Here's how.

Enable Hotpatch for Azure Edition virtual machines built from ISO When using Hotpatch for your ISO-deployed machine on Azure Stack HCI, the Hotpatch experience differs.

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 ...

To begin the process, it’s necessary to have an Azure account with an active subscription and an existing Azure Virtual Machine. By default, Azure assigns a dynamic private IP address to VMs ...

Azure does not use Live Migration; this means if you house a business-critical service in a single VM in Azure IaaS, it will be restarted regularly (about every two to three months, in my experience) ...

More than a third of virtual machines running on Azure are Linux VMs. Here's what's available.

Cloud Azure VM users have just over 90 days to prepare for Internet access overhaul The clock is ticking on requirements for VMs to use an explicit outbound connectivity method June 25, 2025 By ...