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.
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
We had a need to create a site-to-site VPN tunnel for a POC from Azure Stack to Azure. It seemed pretty straight forward. Spoiler alert, obviously I’m writing this because it wasn’t. The tunnel was created okay, but each morning it would no longer allow traffic to travel across it. The tunnel would show connected… READ MORE
A few days ago Microsoft announced a new public preview feature for Azure Storage called Static website. It enables you to host a static web app using Azure Storage which is multiple times cheaper then a traditional required Web App. Reason enough to give it a try. Create a Storage account To use the Static website feature we need… READ MORE
Developing an API requires a balance between standardisation and implementation, mostly developers either get drowned in the details of various standards or miss the standards and begin the development in a non-uniform way. This chapter provides the information which has the balance between standards and implementation by providing the minimum set of guidelines covering the… READ MORE
When it comes to automation, there are number of scenarios which come to your mind. It may be simply using PowerShell to manage your Azure Firewall (e.g. getting Azure Firewall resources information, retrieving rule collection, adding a new rule or so on). More advanced, it can be a scheduled automation job running to continuously maintain Azure Firewall.… READ MORE
Sharing access across different tenants in one of the key benefits of Azure AD. My customers appreciate that they can provide azure-based solution to their cooperated users and to guest users as well. Cooperated users include users from the group and subsidiaries. They all can access resources with one identity – on-premises and in the… READ MORE
Microsoft has a great solution for persisting your local data collected by the IoT Edge. It’s up to you to get the data in and out of your database. But you have a convenient way of storing your precious information into some kind of persistent storage. As seen in my previous blog, it’s not that hard to deploy… READ MORE
