Category: Azure

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.

Azure Key Vault and Power Automate
Azure Key Vault and Power Automate
Blog Posts

Can you keep a secret? Have you tried using Azure Key Vault with Power Automate? here is an overview of the Azure Key Vault connector. The Azure Key Vault Table of Contents The Azure Key Vault The Azure Key Vault Connector Decrypt and Encrypt data I’ve create an Azure Key vault to keep hold of my secrets. The… READ MORE

DevSecOps on Microsoft Azure
DevSecOps on Microsoft Azure
Webinars

In this session we not only look at how to enable security tools in Microsoft Azure but look at what is required to build a successful DevSecOps function, how to get high fidelity feedback from security events, structure your team and recap the fundamentals of good security practices. This webinar is part of Azure Week.… READ MORE

Azure ML DataStores and Datasets
Azure ML DataStores and Datasets
Blog Posts

DataStores In Azure ML, datastores are references to storage locations, such as Azure Storage blob containers. Every workspace has a default datastore – usually the Azure storage blob container that was created with the workspace. When data is uploaded into the datastore through the following code we can see the files in the Azure Storage… READ MORE

How to use Integrated Cache feature of Azure Cosmos DB
How to use Integrated Cache feature of Azure Cosmos DB
Blog Posts

First, you need to be sure that you have the latest version of Cosmos SDK in your solution. Currently, preview version has the integrated cache options.  Other versions will work too as long as you use Eventual Consistency for you request. You can not change Integrated Cache options with the older versions of SDK. Next,… READ MORE

Azure App Services with Private Link
Azure App Services with Private Link
Blog Posts

In one of my videos on my YouTube channel, I discuss Azure App Services with Private Link. The video describes how it works and provides an example of deploying the infrastructure with Bicep. The Bicep templates are on GitHub. If you want to jump straight to the video, here it is:https://www.youtube.com/embed/yRIC2U-Vnts?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent In the rest of this blog post, I… READ MORE

Azure Artifacts - External Authentication
Azure Artifacts – External Authentication
Blog Posts

Hello everyone, These days I came across an interesting situation that took me a few hours to resolve and I will document it here for future reference and to help others. In one of the projects I work on we have some packages in a private feed in Azure Artifacts , when we use Azure Devops pipelines… READ MORE

Working with CosmosClient in Azure Functions
Working with CosmosClient in Azure Functions
Blog Posts

Azure Functions allows you to inject an instance of the DocumentClient class to perform, read or write operations on your CosmosDB. This concept is known as input binding and there are multiple bindings available for various Azure resources (See Azure Functions triggers and bindings concepts). Unfortunately, there is no input binding for the new CosmosClient class that is part of the .NET SDK v3. In… READ MORE

Auditing and Security Monitoring of Azure Active Directory
Auditing and Security Monitoring of Azure Active Directory
Blog Posts

In a cloud-based world, both for end-users and operator access to management layers the identity provider plays an important part to provide authentication/authorization/accounting and secure authentication mechanisms. Many organizations today use Azure Active Directory to provide these identity mechanisms for both end-users such as accessing Office 365 but also other SaaS based applications. Many also… READ MORE

Symbolic Link to an Azure File Share
Symbolic Link to an Azure File Share
Blog Posts

We recently used a symbolic link to an Azure file share to transparently replace a local folder in which data sets are cached for download. That means that the existing service transparently copies the data sets to an Azure file share without having to change anything in the code to do so. With a small… READ MORE