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Tech geek, Microsoft enthusiast (and now Apple!)
Driving Azure FinOps Adoption 🚀
As part of enhancing our internal Azure standards, we’ve been making great progress implementing Azure FinOps using the Azure FinOps Toolkit.
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As part of enhancing our internal Azure standards, we’ve been making great progress implementing Azure FinOps using the Azure FinOps Toolkit.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Driving Azure FinOps Adoption 🚀
As part of enhancing our internal Azure standards, we’ve been making great progress implementing Azure FinOps using the Azure FinOps Toolkit.
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As part of enhancing our internal Azure standards, we’ve been making great progress implementing Azure FinOps using the Azure FinOps Toolkit.
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🚀 Standardising Our Azure Deployments with Bicep & AVM 💪
As part of standardising our Azure support offering, my colleague and I have been working hard developing Bicep deployment templates.
As part of standardising our Azure support offering, my colleague and I have been working hard developing Bicep deployment templates.
July 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
🚀 Standardising Our Azure Deployments with Bicep & AVM 💪
As part of standardising our Azure support offering, my colleague and I have been working hard developing Bicep deployment templates.
As part of standardising our Azure support offering, my colleague and I have been working hard developing Bicep deployment templates.
Today I have been improving some Azure standards that I have been meaning to do for weeks. I have standardised our Azure support offering, with an easy to understand pricing structure.
July 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Today I have been improving some Azure standards that I have been meaning to do for weeks. I have standardised our Azure support offering, with an easy to understand pricing structure.
Today I helped a customer out with what looked like an Active Directory issue with authentications failing when users log into an in-house developed web app. But I completely blanked on what dcdiag and repadmin command I should use!
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July 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today I helped a customer out with what looked like an Active Directory issue with authentications failing when users log into an in-house developed web app. But I completely blanked on what dcdiag and repadmin command I should use!
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What else is more stressful than buying/moving house…? I’m not sure if I will make it to the end of Dry January at this rate with what is going wrong with our house purchase 😅, but I’m sure others have horror stories as well!
January 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
What else is more stressful than buying/moving house…? I’m not sure if I will make it to the end of Dry January at this rate with what is going wrong with our house purchase 😅, but I’m sure others have horror stories as well!
Looks like Teams participants can change their display name??!
January 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Looks like Teams participants can change their display name??!
Why not invest the £20–£40bn set aside for nuclear into home solar + batteries? Households could go self-sufficient, feed surplus back to the grid, and lower everyone’s bills. Thoughts? www.bbc.com/news/article...
EDF reject claims Suffolk Sizewell C nuclear site will cost £40bn
EDF and the government say they do not recognise the £40bn figure and it is "not accurate".
www.bbc.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Why not invest the £20–£40bn set aside for nuclear into home solar + batteries? Households could go self-sufficient, feed surplus back to the grid, and lower everyone’s bills. Thoughts? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Who else would buy this?! 🤩
Nintendo announces next console (made out of Lego). Lego and Nintendo are preparing a Game Boy Lego console kit for release this fall www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/243...
Nintendo announces next console (made out of Lego)
Your Switch 2 announcement is in another castle.
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Who else would buy this?! 🤩
I'm starting the New Year with a renewal! This year, I'm planning on doing AZ-500 and then the CompTIA Linux+ certification as a starter for this year!
January 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I'm starting the New Year with a renewal! This year, I'm planning on doing AZ-500 and then the CompTIA Linux+ certification as a starter for this year!
I have been taking some time off over Xmas with the family, and back to the world on the 2nd. Hope everyone has had a great break so far, and I hope you have managed to spend time with the people that you love…
December 29, 2024 at 8:33 PM
I have been taking some time off over Xmas with the family, and back to the world on the 2nd. Hope everyone has had a great break so far, and I hope you have managed to spend time with the people that you love…
So I have built a very simple GPT chat bot which I published to the GPT store. I wanted to have a quick way of having the required Azure WAF guidance to hand and it’s great to ask it some taxing questions. If you are interested, give it a try: chatgpt.com/g/g-676453f7...
ChatGPT - Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) Guide
Guides users through Azure Well-Architected Framework principles.
chatgpt.com
December 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
So I have built a very simple GPT chat bot which I published to the GPT store. I wanted to have a quick way of having the required Azure WAF guidance to hand and it’s great to ask it some taxing questions. If you are interested, give it a try: chatgpt.com/g/g-676453f7...
Looks like Azure Charts is offline again 😭. Is there anyone at Microsoft that can give this guy some funding?! azurecharts.com
Azure Charts is off
azurecharts.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Looks like Azure Charts is offline again 😭. Is there anyone at Microsoft that can give this guy some funding?! azurecharts.com
Been off work for past two days - high temperature / fever and a bad cough. Looks like Covid might be going around again. Apple Watch alerted me on Sunday morning after my sleep when it said my body temperature was higher than usual. Today its nearly 3 degrees higher than what it should be
December 17, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Been off work for past two days - high temperature / fever and a bad cough. Looks like Covid might be going around again. Apple Watch alerted me on Sunday morning after my sleep when it said my body temperature was higher than usual. Today its nearly 3 degrees higher than what it should be
iOS 18.2 has been released. Excited to see if Apple Intelligence has finally been enabled in the UK!
December 11, 2024 at 9:32 PM
iOS 18.2 has been released. Excited to see if Apple Intelligence has finally been enabled in the UK!
First post in a series around the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). This post focuses on the first part, Strategy: remilner.co.uk/cloud...
Cloud Adoption Framework Series - Part 1: Strategy
Welcome to the first installment of our multi-part series on the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, moving to the cloud is no longer a question of "if" but "when" and "how." The CAF provides a structured approach to help organisations navigate this transition smoothly. In
remilner.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 9:05 PM
First post in a series around the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). This post focuses on the first part, Strategy: remilner.co.uk/cloud...
Was chatting with a customer today and I mentioned that Server 2025 will have hotpatching for on-prem… BUT it will need Azure Arc and presumably Azure Update Manager, which will cost $5/server/month. Still seemed to be interested for some critical on-prem workloads. Anyone else looking at this?
November 28, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Was chatting with a customer today and I mentioned that Server 2025 will have hotpatching for on-prem… BUT it will need Azure Arc and presumably Azure Update Manager, which will cost $5/server/month. Still seemed to be interested for some critical on-prem workloads. Anyone else looking at this?
Today we have been doing some good testing with replacing PRTG with Zabbix. However, I am still very much getting to grips with Nix which our engineer has used to automate the deploy and config.
November 27, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Today we have been doing some good testing with replacing PRTG with Zabbix. However, I am still very much getting to grips with Nix which our engineer has used to automate the deploy and config.
Next year I may have to go to Ignite. I saved all the to my agenda planner, and I still haven’t had chance to watch any sessions. Taking a week out and having time to focus is key to be able to learn and grow.
November 27, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Next year I may have to go to Ignite. I saved all the to my agenda planner, and I still haven’t had chance to watch any sessions. Taking a week out and having time to focus is key to be able to learn and grow.
Microsoft Ignite Book of News is live: news.microsoft.com/ignite-2024-...
Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News
The Book of News is your guide to all key items being announced at Microsoft Ignite 2024.
news.microsoft.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Microsoft Ignite Book of News is live: news.microsoft.com/ignite-2024-...
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If you ask anyone I absolutely love Xmas, but why oh why are people putting their Xmas trees up already? Surely it takes the enjoyment and excitement out of Xmas if they are up for 6+ weeks? Neighbour has had theirs up for 3 weeks already which I just can’t comprehend 🙃
November 17, 2024 at 3:09 PM
If you ask anyone I absolutely love Xmas, but why oh why are people putting their Xmas trees up already? Surely it takes the enjoyment and excitement out of Xmas if they are up for 6+ weeks? Neighbour has had theirs up for 3 weeks already which I just can’t comprehend 🙃
Bluesky handle updated to custom domain. Really easy to do, and great way to show to everyone that you are not some random bot!
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Bluesky handle updated to custom domain. Really easy to do, and great way to show to everyone that you are not some random bot!
Did my very first park run this morning! Loved every minute of it, and will definitely be doing it again! strava.app.link/rfz9GDpXzOb
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November 16, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Did my very first park run this morning! Loved every minute of it, and will definitely be doing it again! strava.app.link/rfz9GDpXzOb