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 ...

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 ...

Azure virtual machine users: Be prepared, as there are less than three months before Microsoft fundamentally changes how VMs connect to the Internet, with default outbound access set to be retired.

Cloud and virtualisation are related ideas, but they're not the same thing. To Microsoft the real benefit of its Azure cloud service is more than elasticity and scaling and economies of scale; it's ...

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.

When you need to ensure your agency’s Azure virtual machines are backed up and can be restored at a moment’s notice, Azure Backup is your best friend. If you’ve already created a VM backup in an Azure ...

In a world of constant innovation and technological advances — and also increasingly sophisticated security threats — modernization is key for any business looking to stay competitive. Having ...

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 ...

Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Bastion, a managed PaaS service designed to provide RDP and SSH access via a web browser to Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) on an Azure Virtual Network (VNet) ...