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
by Dan Patrick | Feb 22, 2020 | Infrastructure, Azure CLI Kung Fu, Featured Articles
Have you ever spent hours building a machine to use as an admin workstation for Azure? What about installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux? Well, have we have something for you! It’s always a pain to get going with a good VM to use for admin tasks with Azure....
by Dan Patrick | Jan 30, 2020 | Azure CLI Kung Fu, DevOps, Featured Articles
UPDATE: more scripts from this post have been added – here: https://github.com/deltadan/az-cli-kung-fu The last week has been a blur because I didn’t sleep. I spent days helping a client restore every single VM that had running in Azure (about 250). ...
by Dan Patrick | Jan 10, 2020 | Infrastructure, Featured Articles
Over the past couple of months, Chris and I have been working with Microsoft on a whitepaper focusing on helping customers get ready for a migration to Azure. This paper focuses on the many different areas that are critical to the success of a project. These include...
by Dan Patrick | Nov 29, 2018 | Azure CLI Kung Fu, DevOps, Featured Articles, portal
Today I’m doing an Azure Migration and consolidation for a client and they wanted to tag everything within the existing Resource Group where is it deployed before we started moving things around to other Resource Groups and Subscriptions. Two important...
by Dan Patrick | Nov 8, 2018 | DevOps, portal
With one simple tweet, Buck Hodges of Microsoft gave us what we have all been waiting for: less eye strain. Microsoft pushed changes to Azure DevOps, late today which introduced themes to the portal. Now you can change to a black background which many...
