Azure Resource Naming Conventions and Best Practices
One of the most difficult things in IT is naming things. The same goes for choosing the correct naming convention to use when naming cloud…
Azure Management
Microsoft Azure offers a variety of services to help automate and optimize the management and compliance of your resources in the cloud. This includes Microsoft Purview, Azure Portal, Cloud Shell, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, and more!
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Python Scripting in the Azure Cloud Shell
Did you know the Azure Cloud Shell includes support for Python? You can write Python scripts, save then, upload, and run them directly within the…
Microsoft Azure is Multiple Clouds – Public, US Gov, China and Germany
Did you know that Microsoft Azure is not just one public cloud? Most of us only interact with the Public Azure Cloud, but this isn’t…
Azure Cloud Shell Tips and Tricks
The Azure Cloud Shell offers the ability to manage cloud resources, virtual machines, run scripts and other tasks directly from within the browser or Azure…
Azure Kung Fu Toolkit
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…
Az Kung Fu VM – Master Tools for Azure Administrators
Have you ever spent hours building a machine to use as an admin workstation for Azure? What about installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux? Well,…
Azure Portal App for Windows in Preview
If you've been waiting for an Azure Portal Desktop App, then you'll be happy to learn that Microsoft now has an Azure Portal App for Windows in Preview. It's unclear when this first became available, but a quick search reveals it's been available for a few months now. This Azure Portal App allows you to install a desktop experience for the Azure Portal on a Windows machine. It seems to be framing in the Azure Portal website into a desktop app window, but it does feel more native than the browser experience. Plus, it provides all the same features of the Azure Portal; including the Azure Cloud Shell experience!
Azure Bastion: VM RDP & SSH Access within Azure Portal
Recently, a new Remote Desktop (RDP) and SSH remote access service in Microsoft Azure came to my attention. In short, Azure Bastion enables the Azure…
Azure Icon Downloader Chrome Extension
I’ve written previously about the zip download of the Azure Icons available from Microsoft. That download has .png, .svg, and some other formats of many…
Introducing the Azure Cloud Shell
The Azure Cloud Shell has been out for some time now, as an embedded Bash and PowerShell command-line shell / terminal within the Azure Portal.…
Azure Regions and Availability Zones
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]For a long time, since the beginning of Microsoft Azure, the most granular control you could have for choosing…
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…
Azure Portal goes Native on iOS and Android
Since the beginning of Microsoft Azure with the initial General Availability in February 2010, then Azure Portal has always been a Web Application. It’s gone…
Azure Cloud Shell with Azure CLI inside Azure Portal
Here’s a short introduction to the Azure Cloud Shell; a new feature recently released into the Microsoft Azure Portal as part of the many announcements…
Create Azure SQL Database in the Azure Portal
Here’s a short video that shows you how to create an Azure SQL Database in the Azure Portal. It also explains how to connect to…
Create Ubuntu Linux VM in the Azure Portal
This is a short video that shows how to create an Ubuntu Linux Virtual Machine (VM) in the Microsoft Azure Management Portal. It also explains…
Create Azure Web App in the Azure Portal
Here’s a short video introduction to creating an Azure Web App within the Azure Portal. It also shows how to select the pricing tier to…
Manage Azure Resource Policies in the Azure Portal
Here’s a short video I recorded that goes over how to manage Azure Resource Policies in the Azure Portal. Before the “how to” showing the…
Introduction to the Azure Portal
Here’s a short video I recorded that goes over how to access the Azure Portal (the Current Azure Management Portal). I cover an overview of…
New Azure Preview Portal Grants Early Access to Features
With the “current” Azure Portal (http://portal.azure.com) in full force and Microsoft deprecating services / features within the “classic” Azure Portal, they have now made available…