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.

Migrate SQL Server Database to an Azure SQL Database
Migrate SQL Server Database to an Azure SQL Database
Blog Posts

You can use Azure Database Migration Service to migrate the databases from an on-premises SQL Server instance to Azure SQL Database. In this example, we will move the SQL Server 2008 database on on-premises Windows Server 2008 R2 to Azure SQL. As seen in the image below, there is a database called “DCOInsurance” on SQL… READ MORE

Getting Started with Containers in Azure
Getting Started with Containers in Azure
Ebooks

Deploy and execute Microsoft Azure container and containerized applications on Azure. This is the second book in Shimon Ifrah’s series on containers that will help you manage and scale containers along with their applications, tools and services. Download Chapter 2: Store and Manage Docker Container Images on Azure Container Registry (ACR). This chapter will cover… READ MORE

Azure Cloud CLI PowerShell Bash AZ RM… what? :-)
Azure Cloud CLI PowerShell Bash AZ RM… what? :-)
Blog Posts

Can you imagine your job without the seemingly never-ending stream of new buzz words, terms and abbreviations? No to mention Azure Cloud CLI!I can, easily. 🙂 Regarding Azure command-line administration and automation there are a few important terms, which can be easily confused and therefore can make things seem more complicated than they really are… READ MORE

Site 2 Site VPN FortiGate to Azure Stack
Site 2 Site VPN FortiGate to Azure Stack
Blog Posts

Connecting Azure Stack to my FortiGate Firewall I wanted to connect my new local Firewall to my Azure Stack vNet. As I described later this year I did it with my old firewall which was a virtual pfSense Firewall. It was very good to learn the real parameters and to proof that against a commercial product. Things… READ MORE

Azure Function to Store csv Data in Cosmos DB
Azure Function to Store csv Data in Cosmos DB
Blog Posts

This is a http trigger function written in C# – .NET Core 3.1. It processed a csv file and store the data on Cosmos DB GitHub repo : https://github.com/hansamaligamage/fncsvdatastore Technology stack .NET Core 3.1 on Visual Studio 2019 Azure functions v3 and Azure Cosmos DB table API Some code snippets Retrieve the database storage account Create… READ MORE

Use Azure to Store SQL Server Backups Offsite
Use Azure to Store SQL Server Backups Offsite
Blog Posts

You always think your environment is setup correctly and that you’re able to recover in case of a disaster. You make backups, test your backups, setup DR solutions and in the end test the DR plan (very important). But, is your SQL Server Backups usable? But have you ever considered a situation where all your… READ MORE