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.

Implementing DirectAccess with Windows Server 2016- Configure DirectAccess with the Getting Started Wizard
Implementing DirectAccess with Windows Server 2016- Configure DirectAccess with the Getting Started Wizard
Ebooks

Implementing DirectAccess with Windows Server 2016 by Richard M. Hicks focuses on configuring DirectAccess with the Getting Started Wizard – an exclusive free chapter from his new book DirectAccess provides seamless and transparent, always-on remote access for managed Windows clients. In addition to providing unparalleled ease-of-use for remote workers, it allows IT administrators to better… READ MORE

An Overview of Office 365 Service Assurance Resources
An Overview of Office 365 Service Assurance Resources
Blog Posts

Service Assurance is a primary goal This is particularly important in understanding how Office 365 protects your data, especially since it concerns email access, team communication, collaboration, content storage and specifically content viewed and edited in a browser. Service Delivery includes Service assurance, which is an organisational primary goal, and is directly aligned to the… READ MORE

Store Twitter mentions on blog posts in Azure database using Azure Logic App and Azure API App
Store Twitter mentions on blog posts in Azure database using Azure Logic App and Azure API App
Blog Posts

As blogger it fancies me when people react on the post with comments. But the first thing you do with your post is placing it on a social platform like twitter. Instead of reacting on the blog itself, readers mostly react via twitter. Wouldn’t it be cool to have those twitter comments at your blog post? This article describes a technique using Azure Logic Apps to get the mentions on your blog posts into an Azure database.

Exporting an Azure Database to On-Premises SQL Server
Exporting an Azure Database to On-Premises SQL Server
Blog Posts

Hi, I’m going to show you easily can export “any” SQL Server database from Microsoft Azure to an On-Premises platform. I don’t think this steps are valid for a SharePoint Infrastructure (as the Content as Configuration Databases are stored in SQL Server itself), but it’s always a nice to know. In the meantime we don’t know what the vNext of SharePoint Online is, so it’s always good to know an export procedure fromMicrosoft Azure!

Visual guide to Azure Access Controls Services authentication with SharePoint 2010 - Index Post
Visual guide to Azure Access Controls Services authentication with SharePoint 2010 – Index Post
Blog Posts

This post serves as an index for all the articles in the Visual guide to Azure Access Controls Services authentication with SharePoint 2010.

This series is a set [not yet determined amount] of articles where I show you how to leverage the Azure Access Controls Services (ACS) in combination with SharePoint 2010 to make it easier for you to use identity providers such as Google ID, Windows Live ID, Facebook AuthN etc.

Issue with Azure SDK on a SharePoint Server
Issue with Azure SDK on a SharePoint Server
Blog Posts

Few weeks ago I and Hilton Giesenow prepared togheter a SharePoint & Azure session for the TechEd Africa and the European SharePoint conference. During the preparation we discovered an issue running the Azure Compute Emulator on a SharePoint box (Azure SDK 1.5 and 1.6). First it seemed that the user profile service screwed up after you had started the emulator for the first time, but further investigations had shown that many service applications didn’t work properly anymore. The problem was, that the emulator sets the IIS anonymous user account to the application pool’s identity. Many thanks to Wictor Wilen for telling us which IIS setting has been affected ( we owe you a pint=>summit 2011 🙂