Microsoft MVP Award
Last week I have been awarded with the Microsoft MVP Award. So what is an MVP award? From the MVP site: Technical communities play a vital role in the adoption and advancement of technology—and in helping our customers do great things with our products and services. For more than two…
Changed my website hostname to me
Some of you may have recognized this blog under https://sysctr.nl. I wanted to change the blog url to something not tight to a product or a brand. So I decided to reserve my own name as a domain name. So I can blog on every topic, on every brand and…
Imagine what you could do with Powershell Direct
Building / Configuring Nano Server Cluster
Azure Pack – Recover from a disaster
VM Usage not updated in Azure Pack

One of our customers was building a billing solution for their Azure Pack environment. We just finished the implementation of the fabric and the configuration of Azure Pack. We started testing and all worked fine. We also configured the integration between SCOM and VMM for usage and configured usage in…
Installing and configuring HA Azure Pack Websites – part IV
Welcome back on part 4 of the blog series for installing highly available Azure Pack Websites Cloud. Part I: Introduction and installing the first servers Part II Adding secondary Website Controller Part III: Adding Website Front Ends and Publishers Part IV: Adding Website Worker Roles Part V: Post configuring Azure…
Hyper-V NVGRE Gateway Toolkit
Hyper-V NVGRE Gateways are used to allow Virtual Networks in Hyper-V to connect to the internet or establish a VPN connection to the tenant’s on premise environment. An NVGRE Gateway Cluster is configured as a 2 node cluster. You can download a Service Template in VMM to deploy the Gateway’s…
New way to connect to AzurePack Powershell
I was struggling with the PowerShell API for Azure Pack. I imported the publishsettingsfile as described in this post. In the past when I wanted to get all the VM’s I could simply run: Get-WAPackSubscription "Mark Scholman" | Select-WAPackSubscription Get-WAPackVM And that would give me all my VM’s running on the Azure Pack Subscription. But…