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Microsoft Build Cloud Skills Challenge – May 2022
Skills challenges to encourage learning and certification is a regular thing that Microsoft has done in the past around the Microsoft Build conference. This year is not different! We now have the Microsoft Build 2022 Cloud Skills Challenge that gives you 8 learning...
Azure CLI: Delete Public IP from Existing NIC / VM
So you have already created a Virtual Machine in Azure that is provisioned with a Public IP address and you need to remove it. Don't worry, you do NOT need to delete the VM. You can disassociate the Public IP from the Network Interface connected to the VM, and then...
Azure CLI: Delete All Resources Within Resource Group
There are times when you want to delete all the resources within a specific Azure Resource Group, but you do not want to delete the resource group. Sure, deleting the entire resource group might be easier, but at this time that's not an option. You can use the az...
Top 15 Security Certifications for your Job Role in 2022
Are you looking at security certifications? Certification in the areas of Cybersecurity, IT Security, and Computer Security do not have as many straight forward options in comparison to Windows or Linux certifications, or even cloud certifications with Microsoft...
Start Creating Azure Bicep Modules for Code Reuse
The upcoming Module feature for Azure Bicep really enhances the new ARM Template alternative language in a way that ARM JSON never did. Using Azure Bicep Modules you can easily create reusable bicep code that will eliminate copy/paste of bicep code across multiple...
Top 5 IoT Messaging Protocols
Internet of Things (IoT) solutions employ some kind of messaging protocol for each individual IoT device to communicate in the system. These messaging protocols are used to transmit device telemetry (or messages) from the IoT devices to the IoT Messaging Hub (or...
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate DevOps / SRE Certification
The popularity of HashiCorp Terraform has really taken off in the last couple of years. Terraform has become an extremely popular tool for writing declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) used to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure across one or even multiple...
We are back live for a conference!
It's been a long year and then some! We really can't wait to connect together again with friends old and new in person. This June, in sunny Orlando, Florida, the Microsoft Azure + AI Conference is taking the first steps towards that goal of training, networking, and...
How my passion for BCDR saved my life
I have been working in technology since 1995. My first real job was working for Citibank Mortgage as a Novell Netware administrator. As a new member of the team, I was given the job no one wanted: Continuity of Business (COB) Lead. This meant that I was responsible...
Stopping Azure subdomain takeovers
Have you ever created an Azure web application, created a DNS record from your domain, and then deleted the web app without deleting the DNS record? Then you have just created a major security risk! I came across a fantastic article the other day on the Azure Security...
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