This week I got into a discussion around Data Centre strategy. The institution in question, where this happened are presently defining a new strategy on datacenters. The institution is pres… Read More
Available this week there is a new simplified and optimized storage option for your Azure virtual machine called managed disks.
There are several advantages of managed disks vs… Read More
The Azure platform SLA applies to virtual machines running the Linux OS only when one of the endorsed distributions is used. All Linux distributions that are provided in the Azure image ga… Read More
This post is just tips for Azure programming. (One of frequently asked questions by customers)
A long ago, I introduced how to use Azure REST API (in resource manager mode) and role model ca… Read More
So you are thinking about writing the 534 exam, Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions.
There are plenty of exam prep resources and courses out there from UdemyPluralsight courses, books, gu… Read More
If you’re building a cloud service with just a few of your closest friends, you can forgiven for not thinking about securing your resources—allowing everyone in the team to do an… Read More
There have been a number of recent high profile data exposures related to storage of data within cloud services. Often times data isn't properly secured in these services, leaving sensitive… Read More
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With the masses of information coming out of Ignite 2017 last week, I thought i'd throw together a quick summary of the key Azure AD announcements for your perusal. Some really great ann… Read More
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Recently, I wrote a short blog post on how to provision Azure Active Directory (AAD) Apps in a highly controlled way, so I will not repeat all I said there, but it a nutshell, the idea… Read More
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I spent some time with a customer yesterday who had a particular requirement around securing access to Office 365. After a quick discussion it emerged they had paid for Azure AD Pr… Read More
This blog is part 2 of a series that covers relevant Azure fundamentals - concepts/terminology you need to know, in the context of Hadoop. Much off the content is a copy of Azure docum… Read More
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This blog is part 3 of a series that covers relevant Azure fundamentals - concepts/terminology that you need to know, in the context of Hadoop. Much off the content… Read More
This blog is part 4 of a series that covers relevant Azure fundamentals - concepts/terminology you need to know, in the context of Hadoop. While the first three touched on Azure infras… Read More
Azure Stack
Building an end-to-end validation environment
Part 3: Subscriptions
By Paul Appleby, Kath McBride, and Joel Yoker. Edited by Derek Gamlyn and RoAnn Corbisier.
Azure Customer Advi… Read More
In my previous blog post I walked through a scenario leveraging Azure Functions and Event Grid to handle blob replication between storage accounts. There was one piece of that solution that… Read More
Or the alternative title - combining ADFS w/SAML and Azure AD w/OAuth in the same authentication request just because it is possible
A few days ago I was asked to look into how the Power BI… Read More
PIM for Azure Resources provides Just in Time (JIT) and Temporary access capabilities for Azure Resources. See more at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/privileged-iden… Read More
Scenario:
You need to allow researchers the flexibility to create storage accounts in Azure but you want to ensure they're using security best practices. Specifically, you would like t… Read More
This post is provided by App Dev Managers Latha Natarajan and Sujith Nair who explore the critical aspect of protecting personal information and the impact of data security failures. This po… Read More
I recently took the 70-533, Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam. Each Microsoft exam page has a Skills Measured section. This section clearly outlines the knowledge th… Read More
With Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management (PIM), you can now manage, control, and monitor access to Azure Resources within your organization. To learn more, see https://docs… Read More
This Post is in continuation of Post :Web App Instance Name and ARR affinity Mapping using Function App – Part-2
as Part 3 Our next step is Creating and Setting up Service Princ… Read More
Overview
There are lots of ways to do things in Azure. I could not find a current end to end sample of setting up and getting an Access Token using SSH on a Linux box. I chose th… Read More
Azure offers many different options for deploying cloud workloads. You can deploy Virtual Machines or use Azure App Service. You can even use App Service in a virtual network by deploying Az… Read More
In previous blog posts I have discussed how to deploy Kubernetes clusters in Azure Government and configure an Ingress Controller to allow SSL termination, etc. In those previous scenarios… Read More
App Dev Manager Mariusz Kolodziej kicks off this multi-part series covering the deployment of an Internal Load Balancer with an App Services Environment via ARM templates and PowerShell.Infr… Read More
In my not so distant past, I started an Open Source project called the Gadgetron. There is a scientific publication that lays out the motivation and use cases. It is a medical image reconstr… Read More
Main article is over here, and do check them out from time to time because things change very freuqently.
After reading the article above, I thought I could (maybe) everyone a favor by expla… Read More
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Webhooks are a very convenient way to integrate APIs in general and to call Azure Automation runbooks but while they are very useful and easy to work with, they raise some security conc… Read More
Consider that you have configured the LTR Backup for your Azure SQL Database and you are not able to view it on the Portal.
Figure 1: LTR configure policies pane
And when you click on avail… Read More
One of the many great features of Azure SQL Database is the ability to scale up or down depending on the amount of workload an instance is processing, which means there is greater control of… Read More
This 3-part blog series on security in Azure Government was co-authored by Robert Jaffe, Sr. Program Manager, and Diego Lapiduz, Chief Information Security Architect, with Microsoft Azure Gl… Read More