Prudential Financial Controls Microsoft Teams Sprawl with Cloud Governance Critical Needs Control over Microsoft Teams and site sprawl Mitigation of IT burden Quick reports on Group ownership and permissions COMPANY NAME: Prudential CUSTOMER LOCATION: Newark, NJ INDUSTRY: Financial Services PLATFORM: Office 365 AVEPOINT SOLUTIONS: Cloud Governance We tried about four other companies with a whole… READ MORE
In this session you will understand what should be the strategic approach for a Cloud Migration or Initiation project, at a solution level or at an enterprise level. There are multiple things to consider, not all technical, including Financials, HR, Commercial aspects, and this is not a walk in the park.
You’re a cloud operator for an Azure Stack Integrated system and for whatever reason you have the task of deploying the App Services Resource provider… In this blog series, I’m going to take you through the considerations and deployment processes I went through for the App Services resource provider on an Azure Stack Integrated System.… READ MORE
You’re a cloud operator for an Azure Stack Integrated system and for whatever reason you have the task of deploying the App Services Resource provider… In this blog series, I’m going to take you through the considerations and deployment process of the App Services resource provider on an Azure Stack Integrated System. This should work… READ MORE
Azure Event Grid is an awesome service in Azure, which connects applications together through event messaging. This way of working decouples application components, which enables more scalability, maintainability and extensibility. The image below illustrates this. Orders are written in an Azure Cosmos DB database. Event Grid reacts to each new order and publishes that as an event and… READ MORE
If you have followed the previous 3 parts (part 1, part 2, part 3) you have a full CI/CD pipeline that allows you to deploy your own private agents based on the official Microsoft configuration for the VSTS Hosted Agent Pool. One of the steps was importing the GitHub repository containing the Packer configuration in your own… READ MORE
In the previous posts (part 1, part 2) I introduced Packer and showed the build and release scripts that I use to create my own VSTS Agent pool in Azure. In this post, I’ll tie everything together and show you the Git repositories and Build and Release definitions I use to automate my Agent Pool. Setting… READ MORE
In Part 1 you’ve seen how to use Packer to build a custom image based on a Packer configuration file with an Azure builder and create a new VM from the portal. In this blog post I’ll show you how to script a build and deployment based on your custom image and how to deploy the VSTS… READ MORE
I love Visual Studio Team Services. VSTS allows me to focus on building my CI/CD pipeline, running tests and managing my project without having to worry about installing updates or applying patches to the platform. VSTS is always on, always up to date. An important part of VSTS is the Hosted Agent Pool. Agents are used… 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
