I set out to migrate a few of my old virtual machines to Azure a few months ago. That didn’t end well, as I was lacking a real server – I run all my VMs on Windows 10, and most… Read More »Getting started with Azure Migrate: Migrating an on-premises Hyper-V Virtual Machine to Azure
I’ve been a Dropbox user for 10 years. During this time, I think I’ve paid about $1400 in subscription fees. I’ve used the service through the Plus plan, and I’ve also had the Unlimited (Packrat) version history for half of… Read More »Saying goodbye to Dropbox
Microsoft Inspire (formerly Worldwide Partner Conference, or WPC) was held in Las Vegas in mid-July. I didn’t attend, as the event overlaps heavily with the Finnish summer holiday season, where Finland practically shuts down between midsummer’s eve (late June) to… Read More »Thoughts from Microsoft Inspire 2019 announcements
“This is a quick one”, I thought. A customer asked me to have a look at their old CRM environment, that was running in a local physical server in their datacenter. The plan was to decommission the server, but rescue… Read More »Migrating SQL Server 2008 databases to Azure SQL
SharePoint Server 2016 Release Candidate and Project Server 2016 Release Candidate versions were released today, January 19th. I’ve been fortunate enough to have been working with SharePoint since the earliest versions in around year 2000, so after so many generations… Read More »SharePoint Server 2016 Release Candidate and Project Server 2016 Release Candidate are now available
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 mainstream support ends October 10, 2015. You can verify this on Microsoft’s Lifecycle page for SharePoint 2010. Weeks go by so fast nowadays, that I actually had to stop for a moment… Read More »Goodbye, SharePoint 2010 and thanks for everything