Finally the AzureStack TP1 bits have arrived!

Yesterday the AzureStack TP1 PoC files was released and now you can play around and create your own Azure. Now I just need a decent hardware to run this!

If you have some issues with the requirements my friend Daniel have made a blog about how you can try to install it with less memory!

Shown below is the diagram of the PoC setup and here you can see all the different roles included for your Azure on premises 🙂

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On this page you can read more about it and learn how to deploy it to your environment!

Cool Stuff happening!

So 2016 have started and fun stuff will happen in the near future!

Last week me and the family was in the ski mountains Idre and the rest of the family was skiing but I had a achilles tendon rupture in the christmas weekend so I had to be in the cabin most of the time! Although one evening I got to do some sightseeing on the mountain B-)

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Pretty amazing stuff going with a large piste caterpillar and seeing the result!

But more importantly what is happening in the near future:

DevOps Hackathon in CopenHagen 20-21/1

I will be one of the proctors on Rasmus Hald´s DevOps Hackathon that will take place in Microsoft´s office in Copenhagen Denmark. During two days we will do workshops in DevOps stuff.

NIC in Oslo 4-5/2

Me and Fredrik will do two sessions on DevOps and automation with Chef/Azure/PowerShell/ARM during the Nordic Infrastructure Conference

Want to join? sign up here and book your flights

TechXAzure Microsoft Sweden 15-16/2

During the two-day event at Microsoft Sweden´s TechXAzure me self and Fredrik Nilsson will talk about AzureStack,OMS,Chef and Azure

Sign up here

DevOps day Microsoft Sweden 24/2

In this one-day event I will be with some MVP friends Jacob and Mathias and also Fredrik Nilsson where the Swedish Devs and Ops will learn how to become DevOps with Microsoft solutions.

Please join us! this one is free!!

Azure Automation – Hybrid job with custom runas account

Microsoft and the Azure Automation team has made it possible to use a custom account when running a job on a hybrid worker and that is awesome! Originally the jobs runs under the Microsoft Management Agent´s service account context and that is not always wanted.

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As I described in a post that I did some time ago I used a parameter -PScredential with the inlinescript but now I can with the new functionality get the whole job in the right user context, the user should be saved as a credential asset in your automation account! Last year also the possibility to use PowerShell scripts runbooks besides Workflow runbooks!

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Happy automating!

MVP 2016 – Cloud and Datacenter Management

The year of 2016 started in the best of ways when I got the mail every technical community fellow waits for with the subject:

Congratulations 2016 Microsoft MVP!

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Dear Niklas Akerlund,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2016 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Cloud and Datacenter Management technical communities during the past year.

I am very thankful and happy that I get this for the third year!

And thank you IT-fellow out there that read and follow my content!

The year of 2015 could though have ended in a better way, I played some badminton after christmas and had the unfortunate luck to get a achilles tendon rupture so the first half of 2016 I will be recovering from this..  (typical injury for a male in his 40ies ? )

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//Niklas