Installing the AWS Command Line Interface

The primary distribution method for the AWS CLI on Linux, Windows, and macOS is pip, a package manager for Python that provides an easy way to install, upgrade, and remove Python packages and their dependencies.

If you already have pip and a supported version of Python, you can install the AWS CLI with the following command:

$ pip install awscli --upgrade --user

The --upgrade option tells pip to upgrade any requirements that are already installed. The --user option tells pip to install the program to a subdirectory of your user directory to avoid modifying libraries used by your operating system.

If you encounter issues when you attempt to install the AWS CLI with pip, you can install the AWS CLI in a virtual environment to isolate the tool and its dependencies, or use a different version of Python than you normally do.

After you install the AWS CLI, you may need to add the path to the executable file to your PATH variable. For platform specific instructions, see the following topics:

Verify that the AWS CLI installed correctly by running aws --version.

$ aws --version
aws-cli/1.11.84 Python/3.6.2 Linux/4.4.0-59-generic botocore/1.5.47

The AWS CLI is updated regularly to add support for new services and commands. To update to the latest version of the AWS CLI, run the installation command again.

$ pip install awscli --upgrade --user

If you need to uninstall the AWS CLI, use pip uninstall.

$ pip uninstall awscli

If you don’t have Python and pip, use the procedure for your operating system:

$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
Default region name [None]: us-west-2
Default output format [None]: json

$ aws configure --profile user2
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: je7MtGbClwBF/2Zp9Utk/h3yCo8nvbEXAMPLEKEY
Default region name [None]: us-east-1
Default output format [None]: text

I test to display two 360 panorama photo on web using VR-View plugin in wordpress, as below two picture:

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Remote Control

Tips 1. How to find password of wordpress logon

• The default user account of wordpress in Azure is ‘user’.
• The application password is randomly generated during the first boot. This password can be viewed as follows:
  • Log in to the Microsoft Azure management console.
  • Click the “Virtual machines” icon in the toolbar and select your server from the resulting list.

In the “Support + Troubleshooting” menu, select the “Boot diagnostics” option.

Review the system log until you find the application password.

Tips 1. How to Setup Nested Virtualization in Azure

Deploy Azure VM

To setup Nested Virtualization inside an Azure Virtual Machine, you first need to create a new Virtual Machines using one of the new instance sizes like Ev3 or Dv3 and Windows Server 2016.I also recommend to install all the latest Windows Server patches to the system.

Optional: Optimize Azure VM Storage

This step is optional, but if you want to better performance and more storage for your Nested Virtual Machines to run on, this makes sense.

In my case I attached 2 additional data disks to the Azure VM. Of course you can choose more or different sizes. Now you can see 2 new data disk inside your Azure Virtual Machine. Do not format them, because we gonna create a new storage spaces pool and a simple virtual disk, so we get the performance form both disks at the same time. In the past this was called disk striping.

With that you can create a new Storage Spaces Storage Pool and a new Virtual Disk inside the VM using the storage layout “Simple” which basically configures it as striping.

I also formatted the disk and set the drive letter to V:, this will be the volume where I will place my nested virtual machines.

Install Hyper-V inside the Azure VM

The next step would be to install the Hyper-V role in your Azure Virtual Machine. You can use PowerShell to do this since this is a regular Windows Server 2016.This command will install Hyper-V and restart the virtual machine.

After the installation you have Hyper-V installed and enabled inside your Azure Virtual Machine, now you need to configure the networking for the Hyper-V virtual machines. For this we will use NAT networking.

Configure Networking for the Nested Environment

To allow the nested virtual machine to access the internet, we need to setup Hyper-V networking in the right why. For this we use the Hyper-V internal VM Switch and NAT networking. I described this here: Set up a Hyper-V Virtual Switch using a NAT Network

Create a new Hyper-V Virtual Switch

First create a internal Hyper-V VM Switch

Configure the NAT Gateway IP Address

The Internal Hyper-V VM Switch creates a virtual network adapter on the host (Azure Virtual Machine), this network adapter will be used for the NAT Gateway. Configure the NAT gateway IP Address using New-NetIPAddress cmdlet.

Configure the NAT rule

After that you have finally created your NAT network and you can now use that network to connect your virtual machines and use IP Address from 172.21.21.2-172.21.21.254.

Now you can use these IP Addresses to assign this to the nested virtual machines. You can also setup a DHCP server in one of the nested VMs to assign IP addresses automatically to new VMs.

Optional: Create NAT forwards inside Nested Virtual Machines

To forward specific ports from the Host to the guest VMs you can use the following commands.

This example creates a mapping between port 80 of the host to port 80 of a Virtual Machine with an IP address of 172.21.21.2.

This example creates a mapping between port 82 of the Virtual Machine host to port 80 of a Virtual Machine with an IP address of 172.21.21.3.

Optional: Configure default Virtual Machine path

Since I have created an extra volume for my nested virtual machines, I configure this as the default path for Virtual Machines and Virtual Hard Disks.

Create Nested Virtual Machines inside the Azure VM

Now you can basically start to create Virtual Machines inside the Azure VM. You can for example use an existing VHD/VHDX or create a new VM using an ISO file as you would do on a hardware Hyper-V host.

Some crazy stuff to do

There is a lot more you could do, not all of it makes sense for everyone, but it could help in some cases.

• Running Azure Stack Development Kit – Yes Microsoft released the Azure Stack Development Kit, you could use a large enough Azure virtual machine and run it in there.
• Configure Hyper-V Replica and replicate Hyper-V VMs to your Azure VM running Hyper-V.
• Nested a Nested Virtual Machine in a Azure VM – You could enable nesting on a VM running inside the Azure VM so you could do a VM inside a VM inside a VM. Just follow my blog post to created a nested Virtual Machine: Nested Virtualization in Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10

In my opinion Nested Virtualization is mostly help full if you run Hyper-V Containers, but it also works great, if you want to run some Virtual Machines inside a Azure VM, for example to run a lab or test something.

info source: https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/07/how-to-setup-nested-virtualization-in-microsoft-azure/

The main steps you perform for a cutover migration are shown in the following illustration.

1. The administrator communicates upcoming changes to users and verifies domain ownership with the domain registrar.
2. The administrator prepares the servers for a cutover migration and creates empty mail-enabled security groups in Office 365.
3. The administrator connects Office 365 to the on-premises email system (this is called creating a migration endpoint).
4. The administrator migrates the mailboxes and then verifies the migration.
5. Grant Office 365 licences to your users.
6. The administrator configures the domain to begin routing email directly to Office 365.
7. The administrator verifies that routing has changed, and then deletes the cutover migration batch.
8. The administrator completes post-migration tasks in Office 365 (assigns licenses to users and creates an Autodiscover Domain Name System (DNS) record), and optionally decommissions the on-premises Exchange servers.

9. The administrator sends a welcome letter to users to tell them about Office 365 and to describe how to sign in to their new mailboxes.

Exam Target Audience

One of the recent hot IT topic is cloud technology. Microsoft and Amaze are two most active providers for cloud service. Microsoft’s Azure solution is very popular now. Learning Azure and obtain its cert will be very useful. The 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions exam is targeted towards a Developer candidate. Candidates who are experienced in designing, programming, implementing, automating, and monitoring Microsoft Azure solutions. Candidates are also proficient with development tools, techniques, and approaches used to build scalable and resilient solutions.If you’re an experienced .NET developer, then you’ll likely have an easier time preparing for this exam. As a result, the exam will assume you are proficient with development tools, techniques and have experience developing scalable and resilient solutions.

Skills Measured

Here’s a high level break down of the exam objectives:

• Design and implement websites (15-20%)
• Create and manage virtual machines (20-25%)
• Design and implement cloud services (20-25%)
• Design and implement a storage strategy (20-25%)
• Manage application and network services (15-20%)

Note: The percentage next to each is the approximate break out of how much of the exam focuses on each objective area. As you can see it’s pretty evenly distributed across the 5 areas.

The full exam objectives are listed on the official page for the 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions exam.

Free Video Courses / Training

There are many video training courses available for the 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions exam. The courses top on my list are over at the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA), but there are many more. Here’s a list of video courses I used while studying for this exam with the approximate length of the training courses.

• Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (~9 hrs) via MVA
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (~6.5 hrs) via MVA
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: WebSites (~9 hrs) via MVA
• Exam Prep Session for Exam 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (~1.5 hrs) via Channel9 from Microsoft Ignite
• Azure Friday videos – there are MANY short videos hosted by Scott Hanselman. This is an excellent archive to go through!
• Channel9 Microsoft Azure videos – there are MANY videos on Channel9. This is an excellent archive to go through!

Another video training option that’s not Free, but there is a Free Trial available is Opsgility on-demand Azure training.

Books

There are a number of books on Microsoft Azure. The one geared towards studying for the exam is the “Exam Ref 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions” from Microsoft Press. This book is an excellent study resource to accompany all the other materials, as it’s condensed to cover the exam objectives list.

Note: Do NOT rely to heavily on any single study resources, even books.

Here a list of some Free eBooks available for download:

• “Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure” Free eBook via Microsoft Press
• “Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure” Free eBook via Microsoft Press

Documentation

The documentation for Azure is an excellent study resource too! It’s been built out pretty heavily and even accepts contributions from the community via GitHub. I really encourage you to browse around the documentation and read, read, read in addition to all of your other study efforts.

Practice Tests

The typical practice test vendors do not currently offer any practice exams for the 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions exam. Due to this fact, I actually developed some of my own practice test questions to help me prepare for the exam, and I put them up free for anyone to use!

Take the practice tests: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-532) Practice Test

While the list of questions I put together is not an exhaustive list, this offers yet another tool you can use to help prepare for the exam. Please don’t complain about the quality or the extensiveness of the questions. It takes a lot of time to write test questions! Also, I put these up on GitHub so feel free to browse the source code, fork it or whatever.

Play Time

It’s fine to get “book smart”, but there certainly is no substitute for just getting in there, playing around and practicing. Something Microsoft offers to encourage this is a Free Trial with $200 to spend on all Azure Services. So go dig in and experiment with how this stuff all works, and get some real world experience that will help you pass the exam. This is not just useful if you’re new to Azure. It’s also very useful if you’ve already been developing on Azure but just haven’t done much with certain features yet. Additionally, if you have an MSDN Subscription, then you already have some free monthly credits to use Azure available to you too.

Exam Study Tips

Here’s a few tips of techniques I use when studying and preparing for certification exams:

• Make sure to go through each exam objective category and study until you’re comfortable with that topic.
• Use at minimum 3 study resources on each topic. The variety and repetition will help you retain everything.
• Play with stuff. “Book smarts” are good, but practical hands-on experience is better.
• Make flash cards and/or practice test questions to help memorizing the stuff that can be memorized.
• Don’t be afraid to fail an exam. You will learn what areas you need to focus on better and can always take it again.
• Give yourself a deadline. Once you’re in a comfortable study pace, estimate when you’ll be ready for the exam and schedule it.
• Get your family on board to support you spending a significant amount of time outside of work to study.
• Choose the online proctored exam option when scheduling the exam. This way you can take the exam in a less stressful environment that is the comfort of your own home.

By using the above info, hope I can pass the exam and earn your Azure certification !

info source: http://pietschsoft.com/post/2015/06/06/How-I-passed-the-70-532-Developing-Microsoft-Azure-Solutions-certification-exam

Cheers that I got a MCSA Windows Server 2016 certification which I passed the exam in one take yesterday. I just needed to take one Microsoft exam # 70-743 to upgrade my MCITP window server 2008 to MCSA. If anyone want to get info to pass the 70-743, feel free to contact me. Moreover, I have a spare Microsoft exam coupon which will be expired in end of Sept 2017; I can sell it to you in great discount, feel free to contact me.

Although I knew this cert did not have any benefit to my career path, it was just the responsibility of IT guy to update his knowledge as well as academic qualification. IT field updates very fast, and it is very hard for to trace the technology. Let’s keep on learning…

十年前開始流行的的Project Management Professional (PMP) 和 PRINCE2 項目管理認證，現時有新的競爭者叫 Certified Scrum Master (CSM)認證，現已開始越來越多人留意了。

Scrum是一種新的項目管理的架構，通常為Agile (敏捷)方式的開發工具，而且通常用於軟件開發項目上。Agile/Scrum能夠處理複雜問題，將它們分拆，及優先考慮到單獨的任務中，然後將這些任務委託給最適合解決每個任務的專門團隊成員，所以它被認為較有效率。

以下是兩編bloger文章，很好地介紹Agile/Scrum的應用，值得參考：
Scrum 是什麼（1）：雙重回饋機制 –> http://teddy-chen-tw.blogspot.hk/2011/12/scrum-1.html
Scrum 是什麼（2）：Scrum 的內涵 –> http://teddy-chen-tw.blogspot.hk/2011/12/scrum-2.html

Recently, FDA conducted audit to my company. FDA is known as Food and Drug Administration whereas US has FDA organization and China also has CFDA organization. Its official web site is https://www.fda.gov.

I would like to post their 3 days inspection agenda for your reference. To pass FDA audit is essential for export medical product; let’s well prepare for it.

生产中预防和纠正，主要是针对生产中出现的偏差，在分析是重大偏差还是微小偏差，一般重大偏差就要启动CAPA即预防和纠正程序，如微小偏差就无需启动CAPA程序.