According to Microsoft, Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using various tools and frameworks.
From DevOps to business analytics to the Internet of Things, Azure is designed to have users up and running quickly with a scalable, cost-effective solution that works with your existing investments.
This cloud computing service is a big part of Microsoft’s business, and it competes with similar services from Amazon and Google.
Therefore, our Azure Category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
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In this article, I will show you how to create an Azure Function to merge PDF files stored in SharePoint. The Function will be a generic service, which receives a list of file paths to merge. This means that you can trigger a request from SPFx, Power Automate, Logic Apps… Or anything else really. we… READ MORE
Conditional Access is great. However, when it comes to managed devices it only allows to check for Hybrid Azure AD join and Intune compliance. With Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS), we can also require a certificate to be present on the client to get access. In this post I’ll show you how to do that.… READ MORE
Join Pascal Strassl, Miba AG, Austria for this short ‘How To Set up Infrastructure with Azure Pipeline + Terraform’ video.
Terraform-based deployment of almost all Azure Data Services (default deployment settings are in the parenthesis): Azure Service Bus (Standard, namespace,topic,subscription, auth. rules) Azure Data Lake Storage (ZRS, Hot, Secured, StandardV2) Azure Data Factory (w/Git or without) Azure Data Factory linked with Data Lake Storage Azure Data Factory Pipeline Azure DataBricks WorkSpace (Standard) Azure EventHub (Standard, namespace) Azure Functions (Dynamic, LRS storage, Python, w/App.Insights or without) Azure Data Explorer (Kusto, Standard_D11_v2, 2 nodes) Azure Analysis Server (backup-enabled, S0, LRS, Standard) Azure Event Grid (domain, EventGridSchema) Azure SQL Server (version 12.0) Azure SQL Database (ElasticPool SKU name, 5 GB max data size) Azure SQL Elastic Pool (StandardPool, LicenseIncluded, 50 eDTU/50GB) Properties and content… READ MORE
Accessing data in different data sources is one of the main tasks in machine learning model development life cycle. Let’s discuss one of the most common data accessing scenarios. Scenario : We have to set of relational data points stored in a Azure SQL server to develop a machine learning model using Azure Machine Learning.… READ MORE
Monitoring the ‘Elevate Access Activity’ by Global Admin is a bit tricky operation and so far I have only found it possible with the Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS). Last year, I wrote about how you can do it with MCAS. The ultimate solution would be to monitor the activity in Azure Sentinel and, in this blog… READ MORE
Azure offers different ways to build & run your microservices ranging from Service Fabric to Azure Kubernetes Service to App Services to Azure Spring Cloud to even running Docker Enterprise and Apache Mesos in IAAS mode on Azure — the choice of compute depends on a lot of factors not excluding the affinity and knowledge of these services, the market hype (especially in case of Kubernetes), compatibility… READ MORE
In this blog post, you will learn how to use the Rust programming language to interact with Redis using the redis-rs client. We will walk through commonly used Redis data structures such as String, Hash, List etc. The Redis client used in the sample code exposes both high and low-level APIs and you will see both these styles in action. Code… READ MORE
Many organizations use Azure AD Connect Sync to synchronize hybrid identities from Windows AD to Azure AD DS. Microsoft recently announces a new service, Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync, that also synchronizes Windows AD identities to Azure AD. In this video, we go over how they are similar, features that are different, and when to… READ MORE
