Vault cannot be deleted as there are existing resources within the vault – Azure

If you get the following error:

Error Description: Vault cannot be deleted as there are existing resources within the vault. : xxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx Unregister all containers from the vault and then retry to delete vault. For instructions, see https://aka.ms/AB-AA4ecq5 Code: ServiceResourceNotEmptyWithContainerDetails
To make it so you can delete the Recovery Services Vault. Open the Storage Accounts under “Backup Infrastructure” by navigating to, Recovery Vault >- Backup Infrastructure -> Storage Accounts
Then hit the three dots & select delete. Now you will be able to delete the vault that you were trying to delete.

 

 

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Azure Files – Azures answer to the on-premise file share

Azure Files is Microsoft’s answer to the typical on premise file server file share.

Using the SMB 3 protocol to connect your computers, laptops and servers to a file “serverless” file share in the cloud.

I have been using Azure Files to connect sites together for large data migrations, where I used to use a VPN, I now just use an file share straight from Azure which has been really easy to manage, just map the network drive and once your done un-map the drive.

I haven’t actually used this in production yet, and I am not sure how it will perform with a lot of users connected but it is an interesting concept. I’m also not sure about how to keep this secure, I need to look into that further because if you have say 30 computers with a mapped network drive and they are all using the same credentials what happens if one of them gets compromised?

Does that then mean that someone has the key to access all of your files? Something that I still need to look into… Either way once I do I will update this post. If anyone reads this and does know I would be interested so leave a comment or touch base with me on LinkedIn or email.

More info on Azure files can be found here:

How to Make an Azure Files File Share

This video shows you how to make a new Storage account, create a file share and connect it to a computer using a mapped network drive. I also show you how to download and install the Azure Storage Explorer and use it to browse your newly created file share.

 

A Note on Azure Storage Explorer: I did some testing and it turns out you cannot look at your on premise network locations in the program, just (as the name suggests) Azure Storage.

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Azure – Vault Deletion Error – Cannot perform delete operation because the scope is locked

This issue occurs because there has been a lock placed on the Azure resource you are trying to delete.

Azure sometimes places locks on linked resources or you or another administrator of the system may have put a lock on the resource.

What is a resource lock?

Basically the resource locks stop you from acidentily deleting an Azure resource, it i good practice to put resource locks on production Azure resources to protect from accidential deletion & you can also put notes on the lock so who ever is trying to delete it can see why the lock was put on initially.

How to remove Azure Resource lock so you can delete the Azure resource?

Open the resource you want to delete and select Locks – This is in the settings part of the blade.

Read the comment on the Resource Lock to see why it is applied, if it is safe to delete then you can click the three dots on the right of the Lock and click delete.

Now the resource lock is removed from the Azure Resource, you will be able to delete it.

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As you might know with the release of Windows 10 Microsoft gave the ability to join your computer to Azure Active Directory to manage the devices from the cloud.

The main benefit to connecting your computer to Azure AD is that you get Single Sign On(SSO) to all of your Office 365 apps and as Office 365 uses Azure AD for to store all of its user information if you have Office 365 you have Azure AD.

To enroll your device into Azure AD follow these steps

Open the settings

Windows settings

From the settings app open the System settings

System settings azure ad

Select the about tab and click the Join Azure AD button

join azure ad domain

Type in your Azure AD Credentials and hit the sign in button

type in your azure ad credentials
Once you have finished joining AD on Azure then you will need to restart the computer and log in using the Azure AD credentials.
Now you are enrolled into your organisation.

 

 

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How to work out Azure Pricing

When you are first looking at taking the dive and using Microsoft Azure you will want to be able to figure out how much it is going to cost. There is the Azure Pricing Calculator that you can use to get pricing but this calculator is not 100% accurate.

The acutal price of Azure services changes depending on where you are going to store the servers(meaning which data center or data centers). If you want completely accurate pricing you can look at the Azure Pricing Pages for a more accurate picture of how much your cloud solution will cost.

Watch this video where I show you how to figure out how much azure actually costs.

When you are tying to figure out how much Azure costs make sure you have the solution you want to achieve clearly defined, you will need to know:

  • Where you want your services stored
  • What services you want to use(servers, web hosting, app services, storage, backup, etc)
  • How much data you are going to store
  • Estimate of the bandwidth requirments
  • How are you going to connect to these services(open ports, VPN, etc)
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