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Azure Hybrid

Microsoft Azure Stack is ready to Purchase!

In the early days of Microsoft Azure, back in 2010 when it was called Windows Azure, Microsoft had announced plans to make the Azure services…

Jul 11, 2017 • 2 min read
Azure Containers

Azure Service Fabric Powers Azure PaaS

Microsoft uses their own products to build and host their own products. This is done from the development platform level, all the way into the…

Jun 15, 2017 • 6 min read
Azure CLI

Azure CLI: Quickly Start / Stop ALL VMs

You can easily Start and Stop Virtual Machines (VMs) through the Azure Portal. Previously, I’ve written about the importance of Stopping unused VMs to save money…

Jun 7, 2017 • 5 min read
Azure CLI

Azure CLI 2.0: Make Bash Output More Readable

It can be extremely useful to use the Azure CLI to manage / manipulate your Azure resources from the command-line. However, many of the commands…

Jun 1, 2017 • 2 min read
Azure CLI

Install Azure CLI on macOS

The Azure CLI is the cross-platform, command-line tool for managing and automating cloud resources in Microsoft Azure. The tool is supported across macOS, Linux, Windows,…

May 25, 2017 • 2 min read
Internet of Things

Setup Raspberry Pi with Windows 10 IoT Core

Windows 10 IoT Core is Microsoft’s version of the Windows 10 operating system being built to run Internet of Things (IoT) devices. There are a…

May 24, 2017 • 4 min read
Azure IoT

Microsoft IoT Central Enables SaaS-based IoT Solutions

Many software systems can become fairly complex with many different interconnected and communicating components. Internet of Things (IoT) solutions can especially become complex. Instead of…

May 18, 2017 • 2 min read
Azure CLI

Azure CLI: Reset Azure SQL Database Password

The Azure SQL Database service allows you to set an Admin login and password when you provision a database server in the service. However, if…

May 18, 2017 • 2 min read
Azure CLI

Azure CLI: Create and Manage Resource Groups

All cloud resources created / provisioned in Microsoft Azure need to be associated with Resource Groups. This is one of the basic features of the…

May 17, 2017 • 5 min read