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For the last few years, Microsoft has stated during event keynotes and in other places that Linux is a rapidly growing operating system (OS) being…
Microsoft has begun a 3-month long Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge to find security vulnerabilities in its Azure Sphere OS for building Internet of Things…
Earlier this week, GitHub hosted their annual GitHub Satellite event. The GitHub Satellite 2020 event this year was completely virtual, and free for all to…
There are several ways to upgrade a Linux installation. With Ubuntu, the recommended upgrade method is to use the do-release-upgrade command. This command is the…
Pi-hole is free and open source software for setting up a DNS (Domain Name Service) and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server with built-in functionality…
Microsoft’s web-based development environment, Visual Studio Online, has been rebranded to Visual Studio Codespaces. This is a web-based development environment (IDE) based on the popular…
When working with GitHub Repositories, the Github.com website provides an excellent interface for working with Issues, Pull Requests, and Repositories. Of course, when committing file…
TLDR: Start–>Run–>ncpa.cpl Have you ever lost 6 minutes of your life trying to find a network adapter in Windows? Yeah, me too. Windows really started…
When working with any command-line tool, like Git, it can be easy to forget some of the commands you don’t use very often. This is…
As an Azure MVP, I spent a lot of time teaching and giving webinars on the topic of moving to the cloud. A few months…
When an application needs to authenticate with Azure AD you can’t really just give it a username and password. To authenticate and authorize an application…
Back in November 2019, Amazon filed a lawsuit, basically claiming that the DoD JEDI contract being awarded to Microsoft was unjustly influenced by President Donald…
The Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty certification (and exam AZ-220) is now LIVE and out of Beta. This is the first cloud-based Internet of…
One of the core services within Microsoft Azure is the Storage Account service. There are many service that utilize Storage Accounts for storing data, such…
In the current time of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic many more people are working and meeting online. Many of those people have moved to using…
Getting to know what Azure PowerShell cmdlets to use for different functions and provisioning services can be difficult to remember. However, just like standard PowerShell,…
Welcome to Az Kung Fu, grasshopper! Scripting is the only way to ensure that your environments are the same every time and remove the risk…
A common conversion that’s done when setting storage size is to calculate the correct number of Bytes and other values from the base, desired Kilobytes,…
There are 2 options to “shutdown” a Virtual Machine (VM) running in Microsoft Azure. Each of the two methods have different affects on the cost…
