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.
I had a situation recently where I wanted to shuffle my labs around as I’ve changed jobs and also got access to a new Azure subscription as part of my MVP award. I decided to bite the bullet and just start again as it had been a while since I changed my lab around and… READ MORE
Azure Log Analytics can help you to audit security breaches not only in the cloud but also in onprem Windows Active Directory environments. With this article I give you an idea on how custom views in Azure Log Analytics can help you to see changes at a glance. I’ve recently been asked to analyze admin… READ MORE
This post comes after spending two days working with some customers that have started to move all their on-premise infrastructure to IaaS on the Azure cloud. They have used Azure VMs for hosting their Microsoft Dynamics NAV databases and servers and they have sized the VMs by starting from my suggestion and increasing the size… READ MORE
This is part 2 of a two parts blog series (Read Part 1 here) which explains briefly how to use Azure machine learning to auto classify SharePoint documents. In part one, we covered the end to end solution skeleton, which relies on using Microsoft flow. The flow is set to be triggered whenever a new document… READ MORE
In 2017, ShareGate spent $250,000 on Azure. Even with an Azure MVP on our team helping us keep costs as low as possible, our bill still increased by 45% in under 12 months. The main culprit, of course, was cloud sprawl. We knew that massive savings were possible, so we asked our experts to build… READ MORE
Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Cluster Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. Service Fabric also addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud native applications. Developers and administrators can avoid complex infrastructure problems and focus on implementing mission-critical, demanding… READ MORE
Are you already running Workloads in the Azure Cloud? I think that almost everyone in IT nowadays uses Cloud in some other way, whether it’s Office 365, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Compute (IaaS) or when you’re just at the beginning at the drawing table – designing phase. Microsoft Azure is dominating in the number of… READ MORE
In this SharePoint online tutorial, I am going to explain what is a provider hosted add-in (previously known as SharePoint hosted Apps)? How we can we develop a provider hosted add-in using visual studio 2017 and how we can deploy to Microsoft Azure. And then we will discuss how we can access provider hosted add-in… READ MORE
I was trying to figure out a way to get the text representation of documents stored either in OneDrive or SharePoint Online to execute some text analysis techniques using Azure machine learning studio. I know for sure (not really just guessing) that SharePoint search index store text representation of the document but I guess this… READ MORE
The future of Azure is more Azure. Much, much, much more Azure. Microsoft is trying to create a world where every computing, mobile and smart device connects to with Azure, where Azure becomes the cloud computing backbone used by a worldwide network of partners supporting the digital transformation Microsoft believes is changing every industry. This… READ MORE
