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Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Monday, January 3, 2022
Azure Files: Moving Shared Storage to the Cloud
We are converting our On-Prem shared departmental storage to Azure Files. This has many of the same benefits of Azure virtual servers without the server itself. Azure Files is just pure storage. All of the access permissions for each directory can be kept intact when converting to Azure Files and drive mappings can also be maintained as long as DNS is being used for the path instead of the IP address. Click the images for more details...
OneDrive Known Folder Move(KFM)
We are in the process of converting all of our Faculty and Staff from local "Folder Redirection" to OneDrive KFM. This will provide many advantages and is definitely a win-win for all of us. Moving away from an aging local server to the cloud, user's data available from anywhere, making use of our free 1TB of data per user that is included with our O365 license. Click image for detailed instructions.....
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Switching Office365 to MFA
Very detailed methods of converting your O365 to Multi-Factor Auth. We are using Conditional Policies in Azure as our method of choice.
Guidelines for Assiging CPU and RAM for Azure VMs
Assigning resources (cpu and ram) to virtual servers in Azure. Always start as low as possible because this can get very expensive! Try to find the least amount of resources that will get the job done and not cause issues. Detailed Instructions
Monday, December 27, 2021
Using Azure to Backup your On-Prem Servers
You can use Azure to back up your On-Prem Servers. I'm backing up all of our remaining On-Prem Servers with Azure via MARS. Here's more information and setup instructions.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/tutorial-backup-windows-server-to-azure