The complexity of deploying and managing server workloads is a major challenge facing IT organizations. Although these issues have existed since the dawn of servers and the datacenter, IT pros are ...

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...

Windows Azure Platform is the cloud offering from Microsoft that encompasses many independent services for compute, storage, networking, monitoring and reporting among others. IT professionals ...

Developers and administrators have many ways to deploy resources to Microsoft Azure. But when deploying many resources at once that consist of a full "stack" of resources, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) ...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of tools that let customers with virtual machines manage them through the Azure Resource Manager rather than through older APIs — and with no VM ...