This post will offer some insights on how to index popular document formats like Word, PDF, and JPG’s when using the Azure Search offering. Azure Search is currently in preview and therefore evolving rapidly. However, as for now, indexing documents isn’t supported. Hence my search for alternative ways of extracting document data and metadata.
Within this post, I will focus on the basics of Availability and Performance monitoring within the Azure preview portal. This includes the creation of custom dashboards, adding and altering charts, enabling diagnostics and creating alerts.
Recently discovered the option to reset the username and password for the local administrator account for Azure VMs. I found this in Michael Washam’s, Automating Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services, which is a pretty interesting book, however more on that later.
Probably one of the most exciting features included within PowerShell 4 is the option to create configuration scripts, also known as DSC. Yes, this is something new – unless you are familiar with Chef and Puppet. And no, this isn’t the same as executing a large provisioning script.
Recently I had to move a couple of Windows Azures Virtual Machines from West Europe to Southeast Asia. This process wasn’t as easy as expected, so therefore I’m sharing the steps on how to move a Virtual Machine to a different data center.
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