Shane Bartholomeusz

Geek and lover of all things tech related

Month: July 2016

Azure – Scheduled VM Stop/Start

Overview

One of the most common Azure administration tasks is scheduling an auto stop & start of your Azure VM’s to save you a few $$$.

Here’s a quick post showing how you can do this.

UPDATE: Azure now provides the ability to auto start and shutdown ARM based VM’s. If you are however still using a Classic VM, you can follow the below guide.

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RDP – Bypass Max Connection Limit

The Scenario

Ok so you’ve got a critical Production issue . You try to remotely connect to your Windows server using Remote Desktop and instead you get the following error – Ahhhhhh!

The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections

What do you do?

Error Screenshot
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