Dan Patrick

Dan Patrick is the Chief Infrastructure Architect for Solliance and a 15 year veteran at Microsoft. He has an extensive background in IT Infrastructure and Operations. Dan has both architected and lead teams building and supporting some of the largest service providers in North America with as many 15,000 Windows Servers and 120 million endpoints. Dan has worked with Azure IaaS solutions extensively since 2012. He has a passion for Virtualization with deep experience leveraging Hyper-V, Vmware, and Citrix. He is also a Clustering specialist focusing on large host clusters and SQL Always On Availability Groups. Recently Dan, authored the Networking, Azure Active Directory and Containers portion of the 70-533 Exam Reference for Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter @deltadan

Docker development VM in Azure

by Dan Patrick | May 14, 2020 | Development, Azure CLI Kung Fu, Containers, Featured Articles

Ever wish you had a Docker dev workstation in Azure? About two months ago, we introduced the Azure Kung Fu VM, and judging by the views of that article many of you gave it a try. Today, I wanted to share a different version of that VM running Docker Desktop. You can...

Saving Money with Azure Dev/Test Subscriptions

by Dan Patrick | May 12, 2020 | Infrastructure, Featured Articles, Offer

Did you know that you can have significant savings on Dev/Test environments in Azure? I’m working with the Azure Dev/Test team on a project right now, and I didn’t realize exactly how much you can save. They have an offer for Dev/Test where you only pay...

Bulk add work items into Azure DevOps

by Dan Patrick | May 5, 2020 | DevOps, Training

Enjoy, @deltadan

Jumpstart: Open the Network Connections Tab in Windows

by Dan Patrick | Apr 28, 2020 | Azure CLI Kung Fu, Featured Articles, Infrastructure

TLDR: Start–>Run–>ncpa.cpl Have you ever lost 6 minutes of your life trying to find a network adapter in Windows? Yeah, me too. Windows really started to mess with everyone’s mind back in Windows 8 when they moved stuff around with that...

Policy-Based Routing on Unifi USG PRO 4

by Dan Patrick | Apr 16, 2020 | Infrastructure, Architecture, Featured Articles

As an Azure MVP, I spent a lot of time teaching and giving webinars on the topic of moving to the cloud. A few months ago, I started to experience issues with my internet service provider (ISP), where I would lose connection, and this was very painful during large...