Connect your System Center 2012 to Windows Azure subscription

Microsoft just launched their Azure availability zone in Australia which will open new Cloud computing chapter in Australia. End of June post will be how to connect your Windows Azure subscription to your existing System Center 2012 App Controller. You need to have Windows Azure account and subscription as well as App Controller installed on … Continue reading Connect your System Center 2012 to Windows Azure subscription →

How to redirect http to https using IIS7.0

Thinking of migrating your IIS 7.0 Engine to Cloud ? Previous post We have discussed regarding IIS Migration. Today post will be redirecting our http traffic to https. This will ensure your users always accessing the site securely. There are many ways to redirect http to https, however I believe in below ideal principle : … Continue reading How to redirect http to https using IIS7.0 →

Migrating SQL dbase to Amazon RDS

Today post will be discussing more into Amazon RDS ( Relational Database Service ). How do We migrate our existing SQL Server database to Amazon RDS. Assuming You already have SQL Server Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS) database up and running. Next You will need following: 1. Your RDS Endpoint: “yyyy.xxxxxxxxxx.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com” for example 2. Your … Continue reading Migrating SQL dbase to Amazon RDS →

Migrating IIS 7.0 or 7.5

Today Post topic will be migrating IIS 7.0 from a server to another server. I have a scenario where a client is migrating to AWS which I installed Server 2008R2 EC2 Instance with IIS 7.0. I have ELB on top of instances. Previous environment has Load Balancer which it will be a lot of work … Continue reading Migrating IIS 7.0 or 7.5 →

Bees with Machine Guns on AWS EC2

As promised, this post will explain in more details how to set up 'Bees with Machine Guns'. This tool is invaluable on my arsenal for testing web server or cluster of web servers handling load in the form bunch or swarm I can say HTTP requests. I am using this tool the test ELB, Auto … Continue reading Bees with Machine Guns on AWS EC2 →

New Provisioned IOPS up to 4000 means to Us

Few days ago AWS announced their new tweak for EBS ( Elastic Block Store ). Now We can provision EBS up to 4000 IOPS. This is fourfold increase from the original EBS Provisioned IOPS Volume. Means You can hit it up to 4000 IOPS and up to 1TB of storage provisioned IOPS. Means You do … Continue reading New Provisioned IOPS up to 4000 means to Us →

Export Emails from OWA to Office 365

This post will discuss prerequisite, how to and link for the PowerShell scripts as your main tool. Office 365 gains popularity and pay as you go model suits businesses. The questions raise, how to migrate my emails which sitting from OWA to Office 365. Microsoft Outlook allows you to export email messages very … Continue reading Export Emails from OWA to Office 365 →

Granulate access to your S3 bucket

Granulate access to your S3 bucket Previously, I have posted how to create S3 bucket and how to alias a domain / sub-domain to S3. This post will guide You how to create single access to your S3 bucket. AWS console can be daunting sometimes. AWS console has provided good foundation to interact with all … Continue reading Granulate access to your S3 bucket →

Alias a Domain / Sub Domain Name to your S3 Bucket

Jump Start our Journey to the Kloud. Amazon clearly provides simple Storage and cheap bandwidth for their S3 services, not mentioning their other features and scalability they offer. There are few requirements before this Journey : First of all, obviously, you need your own domain name and your own Amazon S3 account Second, You need … Continue reading Alias a Domain / Sub Domain Name to your S3 Bucket →