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.
A customer had asked me the last few days to help him optimize a SQL server on an Azure VM. The customer always had slight performance problems with this SQL server, so he first asked the application manufacturer or supervisor, but they didn’t want to or could help. The only answer they received was that… READ MORE
In this post, I wanted to highlight the key benefits of using Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure. These have been in general availability for a while now but from my own experience I don’t see too many Gen2 virtual machine deployments in the wild yet. If you have a Hyper-V background like myself, then… READ MORE
As part of Microsoft’s Zero Trust strategy, Conditional Access has been the central control mechanism in Azure AD to define which kind of access controls must be fulfilled to access cloud apps that are integrated with Azure AD. However, until now it was not possible to define more granular controls. With Conditional Access Authentication Context… READ MORE
Azure PowerShell functions are a great option for all your Azure administration, event driven scripts and interaction with data in storage accounts or databases. But how do you use them? In this talk, We will take a look at the possibilities, structures and connections with some real-world examples as our guide. After that, let’s see… READ MORE
If you have been following me on Twitter or my blog, it’s no secret that I absolutely love Azure Sentinel. It’s on the fastest moving product within the Microsoft Security stack and provides some awesome capabilities. But unfortunately, a lot of people seem to be afraid of it. When you start talking about a ‘SIEM’… READ MORE
The Backup feature in Azure App Service allows us to easily create app backups manually or on a schedule. You can restore the app to a snapshot of a previous state by overwriting the existing app or restoring to another app. Refer the below steps to schedule your backup: 1. Go to your App service… READ MORE
In the scope of this article I will be using the term Data Architecture to refer to the use cases where enterprises plan to bring together data from various transactional stores for analytical needs like Business Intelligence, Reporting and Machine Learning source for Data Scientists. Data Architecture can consist of Data Lake, Data Warehouse or… READ MORE
In this article, we will create an Azure Pipeline for an Ionic app using the new Azure pipelines YAML templates. We will also cover signing a release build of the published artifacts (APK signing). I have summarised the goals of this blog post in the diagram below. A picture is worth a thousand words. Any… READ MORE
Microsoft Azure is multiplying and updating very frequently with several new services. You can see releases of new Azure services very often. Old Azure services are getting updated with new features. And, many services are moving from public preview to general availability, and there are a lot more. Sometimes, this information is overwhelming when you are just getting… READ MORE
Last year I managed to get Microsoft.Identity.Web running with Azure Functions. During the time, Microsoft released a new model for hosting Functions on .NET called out-of-process . This is used to run Functions in .NET 5.0, will be available with 6.0 and will be the only model available since .NET 7.0 as per roadmap. The out-of-process model comes with… READ MORE
