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.
Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure covers all that you need to extract useful insights from your data. You’ll explore the power of data with big data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, artificial intelligence, and DataOps. With this book you can learn: Explore the concepts of modern data warehouses and data pipelines Discover… READ MORE
Join Sander Stad, MVP, the Netherlands for this video on How To build Azure DevOps with Databases in 15 Minutes.
It might be an edge case, or you are creating your own integration. But chances are, after fiddling around with Azure Monitor Rest API, you encounter a situation where you would have work with its API.Personally, I have numerous situations over the last years, that required me to integrate directly with Azure Management APIs In this… READ MORE
It is recognized that privileged access and management of IT services needs particularly protection and high security policies. There are already some concepts for securing privileged access that has been proven very useful in management of an on-premises infrastructure. Some of them can be adopted to hybrid or cloud-native environments as well. However, it seems… READ MORE
Information Security Principle is a critical part of your IT operations. Cyberattacks and carelessness can harm the operations and reputation of your business, possibly threatening its survival. Via your systems and data, attackers can also do damage to your customers and business partners. On the other hand, good information security can help you maintain the… READ MORE
Instead of pure lift-and-shift migrations to the cloud, we often encounter lift-shift-tinker migrations. Azure AD Seamless Single Sign-On (Seamless SSO) automatically signs in users when they are on their PCs or devices that are connected to their organisation network. In such a migration, you modify some of the application components to take advantage of cloud… READ MORE
Plan In the previous section, we talked about the first phase of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework. In the next phase we will deal with the development of a cloud adoption plan. Cloud adoption plans convert the aspirational goals of a cloud adoption strategy into an actionable plan. Digital Estate Digital estate is an important… READ MORE
In this article, I´ll show you how to effective operationalize containers technology to build your apps faster and easier so you can deploy docker container to Azure. Operationalizing containers has its challenges. Organizations are looking for guidance on a seamless handoff of the container technology from development to production and on the management of its… READ MORE
Azure AD always had a big advanced over on-premises Active Directory: a very granular RBAC approach when it come to administration. However, there is also a downside – roles can only be applied globally without a limited scope. This has changed now. Being in a PowerShell based preview for quite some time, Azure AD Administrative… READ MORE
The first time I heard about JSON and Azure ARM templates together with Azure in the same sentence, was in Chicago at Microsoft Ignite back in 2015. My first thought was, what are they all talking about? This was of course during the shift from Azure “classic” which was based on XML, to Azure “Resource… READ MORE
