Nick Eales’ blog

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Install highly available SCVMM 2016 using SQL Always On

One of my customers recently had a frustrating time installing a VMM 2016 in a highly available...

Author: NickEales-MSFT Date: 02/14/2018

Create VMM template for Ubuntu 16.04

There seems to be a lot of guidance - but none of it was clear enough for me.. these are my quick...

Author: NickEales-MSFT Date: 01/23/2018

Getting a private certificate from Key Vault

Getting a certificate from key vault using PowerShell – while it isn’t obvious also isn’t hard. I’m...

Author: NickEales-MSFT Date: 06/26/2017

OAuth using PowerShell and certificate Service Principal to Azure Function App

Hi, Recently I needed a way to write PowerShell code to use a certificate backed service principal...

Author: NickEales-MSFT Date: 06/19/2017

Use a Custom Script Extension to Sysprep an Azure VM

Hi All, I’ve been in a situation where I want to run sysprep on a Azure VM to create an image,...

Author: NickEales-MSFT Date: 03/13/2017

Azure Automation Webhook parameter passing

Hi All, Recently I was exploring the use of webhooks & needed to troubleshoot the parameters...

Author: NickEales-MSFT Date: 02/14/2017

Hyper-V Performance - Networking

This is a continuation of a series on Hyper-V performance monitoring. The previous posts covered...

Author: NickEales-MSFT Date: 01/24/2017

Hyper-V Performance – Memory

This is a continuation of a series on Hyper-V performance monitoring. The previous posts covered CPU...

Author: NickEales-MSFT Date: 11/22/2016

Hyper-V Performance - Storage

This is a continuation of a series on Hyper-V performance monitoring. The previous post covered CPU...

Author: NickEales-MSFT Date: 11/07/2016

Hyper-V Performance - CPU

Hi - I'm Nick Eales from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team, based in Sydney Australia. I...

Author: NickEales-MSFT Date: 10/24/2016