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Moving website to Hugo & Azure
Hello and welcome to my “new and improved” (I hope!) blog site, powered by Hugo and Azure Static Web Apps. My final post on WordPress has the same URL but different content. What is Hugo? Hugo is a framework for building static site websites. There are several “static site generators”, but I happened to land…
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Backups from within Dynamics GP
This is my second post in the Did You Know series, tying into Pam Misialek’s series. This feature allows users to create a one-off backup of a database from within Dynamics GP and save it either locally or on Azure storage. Originally introduced in GP 9, the Backup to Azure was added to this feature…
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More Azure – Part 3
I made the rookie mistake of forgetting I left my VM on earlier this week and now I’m out of credits and have to wait another few days to use it again. Drag! Before that, I had taken some screenshots to demonstrate how to find and use some settings around IP addresses and DNS names.…
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More Azure – Part 2
Last year I wrote about what happens when you forget to turn your machine off. Well, I did it again. The good news is, this time the message is a lot less cryptic! Here’s the email I received this morning! DOH! Warning about services being disabled because I’d reached my spending limit. I logged into…
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More Azure – part 1
In early May 2016, we saw the introduction of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 and the general availability of the first two Canadian Azure data centres in Toronto and Quebec City. That combination gave me a chance to roll up my sleeves again and work with Azure a little more, as I want to ultimately host any of…
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Azure – when you forget to turn your VM off!
An update on my Azure experiences… apparently I forgot to turn off my Azure VM one day last month. I say apparently because I don’t recall using Azure to turn it on, but perhaps I did, anticipating doing something, then forgot. It happens. Here is exactly what happened when I forgot! First, I got an…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Wrap-Up
This is officially the last post, for the foreseeable future, on my experiences with Azure. There isn’t a ton of meat in this one, as it’s more of a “what’s happened since the last post” type of post. Since the last post I’ve done everything I said I would do at the end of my…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 6
Pretty soon I’ll have to be more creative with the blog post titles! Part 193 …. geez. More stuff I’m learning: it’s way easier to install and configure Active Directory Domain Services on Azure than installing SQL Server 2014 fresh on a Windows-only VM. Seriously… I’m on my 3rd attempt to install SQL Server! In…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 5
One month has been completed, and my Azure experience cost me $18.80 for a month. So far, I haven’t left the machine running outside of when I am using it yet… hence the extremely low cost to date. And of course, it didn’t *actually* cost me anything because I was using my MPN credits. Costs…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 4
This post is a continuation of my little series of learning about Azure. Part 1 is here Part 2 is here Part 3 is here. In this post, I’m going to correct a couple of things I’ve written in the previous posts, update the costs of running this so far, and add a few more general…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 3
Day 3 of using Microsoft Azure and things are becoming a little more clear. I haven’t *done* much with actually using apps on the VM yet, more messing around with installs and configuration. This is a continuation of my first two posts on learning Azure in the context of upgrading to GP2015 for testing. Part…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 2
As I sat up til nearly 1:00 am last night (er, this morning) playing with the new Azure VM, I was thinking “This is going SO smoothly!”. I should have known it wasn’t going to be that easy. 😄 See yesterday’s “Part 1” post for the introduction to this journey I’m on, which covers why…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 1
I feel that I’m a bit behind the curve… I haven’t installed GP 2015 in my environment yet, I haven’t tried anything on Microsoft Azure yet, and I figure it is about time I started to look at both. There has been a lot of press and information about Azure, but I haven’t had the time…
