Many organizations use Azure AD Connect Sync to synchronize hybrid identities from Windows AD to Azure AD DS. Microsoft recently announces a new service, Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync, that also synchronizes Windows AD identities to Azure AD. In this video, we go over how they are similar, features that are different, and when to… READ MORE
Can you keep a secret? Have you tried using Azure Key Vault with Power Automate? here is an overview of the Azure Key Vault connector. The Azure Key Vault Table of Contents The Azure Key Vault The Azure Key Vault Connector Decrypt and Encrypt data I’ve create an Azure Key vault to keep hold of my secrets. The… READ MORE
In this session we not only look at how to enable security tools in Microsoft Azure but look at what is required to build a successful DevSecOps function, how to get high fidelity feedback from security events, structure your team and recap the fundamentals of good security practices. This webinar is part of Azure Week.… READ MORE
DataStores In Azure ML, datastores are references to storage locations, such as Azure Storage blob containers. Every workspace has a default datastore – usually the Azure storage blob container that was created with the workspace. When data is uploaded into the datastore through the following code we can see the files in the Azure Storage… READ MORE
What are we trying to do We will build a very simple recommendation engine using Text Data. To demostrate this we would use a case study approach and build a recommendation engine for a non profit organization Career Village. I have detailed post on the methodology of the recommendation engine in the post here. In this post… READ MORE
First, you need to be sure that you have the latest version of Cosmos SDK in your solution. Currently, preview version has the integrated cache options. Other versions will work too as long as you use Eventual Consistency for you request. You can not change Integrated Cache options with the older versions of SDK. Next,… READ MORE
Hello everyone, These days I came across an interesting situation that took me a few hours to resolve and I will document it here for future reference and to help others. In one of the projects I work on we have some packages in a private feed in Azure Artifacts , when we use Azure Devops pipelines… READ MORE
Azure Functions allows you to inject an instance of the DocumentClient class to perform, read or write operations on your CosmosDB. This concept is known as input binding and there are multiple bindings available for various Azure resources (See Azure Functions triggers and bindings concepts). Unfortunately, there is no input binding for the new CosmosClient class that is part of the .NET SDK v3. In… READ MORE
In a cloud-based world, both for end-users and operator access to management layers the identity provider plays an important part to provide authentication/authorization/accounting and secure authentication mechanisms. Many organizations today use Azure Active Directory to provide these identity mechanisms for both end-users such as accessing Office 365 but also other SaaS based applications. Many also… READ MORE
We recently used a symbolic link to an Azure file share to transparently replace a local folder in which data sets are cached for download. That means that the existing service transparently copies the data sets to an Azure file share without having to change anything in the code to do so. With a small… READ MORE
