by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 5, 2020 | Infrastructure, Featured Articles, Open Source
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 Free services like Zoom and others; however those solutions have been prone to something called...
by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 5, 2020 | Internet of Things, Certification
For some time now, Tim Warner, a fellow Microsoft MVP, has been posting short videos that methodically go over all the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals certification exam objectives and skill areas. This is a pretty great free series of training/study content geared towards...
by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 2, 2020 | DevOps, Featured Articles, PowerShell
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, the Azure PowerShell cmdlets have been created with a specific naming convention. By memorizing...
by Dan Patrick | Mar 31, 2020 | Azure CLI Kung Fu, DevOps, Featured Articles, Infrastructure
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 of human error. We write scripts all the time using the Azure CLI, but it feels like we always having to figure out the same...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 31, 2020 | Infrastructure, database
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, Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes, or even Petabytes. The calculator below enables you to enter your desired...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 30, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 27, 2020 | Development, Featured Articles, serverless
Azure Functions is the Serverless compute option within the Microsoft Azure platform. One of the biggest benefits of Azure Functions, and Serverless compute, is that you only pay when your code is actually executing. However, there has been a limitation of Azure...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 27, 2020 | Infrastructure, Featured Articles
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 of your Azure subscription. One way you will still get charged for the compute resources, and the other will...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 27, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles
In a response to the quarantine and lockdown restrictions due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Microsoft has announced they are delaying retiring the MCSA, MCSE, and MCSD certifications and exams. These certifications are now going to be retired January 31,...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 25, 2020 | Azure CLI Kung Fu, Featured Articles, Internet of Things
One of the services within Microsoft Azure for building out IoT solutions is the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (DPS). Just as with other services in Azure, the Azure CLI (cross-platform command-line tool) includes several commands that can be used to...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 23, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 19, 2020 | DevOps, Development, Featured Articles
GitHub keeps on innovating in the source control management and collaboration space. There have been great new features like GitHub Actions recently, as well as GitHub’s announcement of acquiring npm. One of the latest things to come out of GitHub is the release...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 16, 2020 | Open Source, Development, Featured Articles
Nat Friedman, the CEO of GitHub, announced that GitHub has signed an agreement to acquire npm. “npm, inc.” is the company behind the extremely popular Node package manager, the npm Registry, and npm CLI. Through these tools and services offered by npm,...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 16, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 15, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles
I’ve been seeing lots of questions about earning the MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA certifications before their exams are retired on June 30, 2020. With the recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and all the quarantines and travel restrictions, I’ve also been...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 9, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 8, 2020 | Architecture, database, Featured Articles
Microsoft has announced that a FREE pricing tier of Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL, cloud-scale database engine) is now available. This new free tier is offering the ability to create a new Azure Cosmos DB Account with 400 RU/s and 5 GB storage for free for the lifetime of...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 8, 2020 | Infrastructure, Linux
Microsoft’s first WSLConf Linux Conference is being held this week, March 10 – 11, 2020. Originally, it was going to be an onsite event at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. However, with the recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, Microsoft has turned...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 2, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 28, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles, Infrastructure
Embedded within Microsoft’s announcement of retiring ALL of the MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA certifications (and their associated exams) is the fact that certifications for Windows Server and SQL Server products are gone. As the older technology-based certifications are...
