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.
In this post we’ll walk through the steps you can take to give a Service Principal a role with “Least Privilege” in Azure. After reading this article you will have a very practical method that you can use over and over again. You will be able to create roles for your Service Principals that will… READ MORE
There’s a newer feature in Log Analytics that you may have missed. This feature makes it much, much easier to share your fantastic KQL query creations with the world and puts the real work on the folks at Microsoft. In the Logs blade in any Log Analytics workspace, under the Share option, there’s a new Share to community option.… READ MORE
Are you looking to leave Oracle behind? Join us to find out how to accelerate the migration journey by automating Oracle migrations to SQL Server using 1st party tools such as SQL Server Migration Assistant and Data Access Migration Tool.
In this article, I will show you how to create an Azure Function to merge PDF files stored in SharePoint. The Function will be a generic service, which receives a list of file paths to merge. This means that you can trigger a request from SPFx, Power Automate, Logic Apps… Or anything else really. we… READ MORE
Conditional Access is great. However, when it comes to managed devices it only allows to check for Hybrid Azure AD join and Intune compliance. With Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS), we can also require a certificate to be present on the client to get access. In this post I’ll show you how to do that.… READ MORE
Join Pascal Strassl, Miba AG, Austria for this short ‘How To Set up Infrastructure with Azure Pipeline + Terraform’ video.
Terraform-based deployment of almost all Azure Data Services (default deployment settings are in the parenthesis): Azure Service Bus (Standard, namespace,topic,subscription, auth. rules) Azure Data Lake Storage (ZRS, Hot, Secured, StandardV2) Azure Data Factory (w/Git or without) Azure Data Factory linked with Data Lake Storage Azure Data Factory Pipeline Azure DataBricks WorkSpace (Standard) Azure EventHub (Standard, namespace) Azure Functions (Dynamic, LRS storage, Python, w/App.Insights or without) Azure Data Explorer (Kusto, Standard_D11_v2, 2 nodes) Azure Analysis Server (backup-enabled, S0, LRS, Standard) Azure Event Grid (domain, EventGridSchema) Azure SQL Server (version 12.0) Azure SQL Database (ElasticPool SKU name, 5 GB max data size) Azure SQL Elastic Pool (StandardPool, LicenseIncluded, 50 eDTU/50GB) Properties and content… READ MORE
Accessing data in different data sources is one of the main tasks in machine learning model development life cycle. Let’s discuss one of the most common data accessing scenarios. Scenario : We have to set of relational data points stored in a Azure SQL server to develop a machine learning model using Azure Machine Learning.… READ MORE
Monitoring the ‘Elevate Access Activity’ by Global Admin is a bit tricky operation and so far I have only found it possible with the Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS). Last year, I wrote about how you can do it with MCAS. The ultimate solution would be to monitor the activity in Azure Sentinel and, in this blog… READ MORE
Azure offers different ways to build & run your microservices ranging from Service Fabric to Azure Kubernetes Service to App Services to Azure Spring Cloud to even running Docker Enterprise and Apache Mesos in IAAS mode on Azure — the choice of compute depends on a lot of factors not excluding the affinity and knowledge of these services, the market hype (especially in case of Kubernetes), compatibility… READ MORE
