Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
With Cybersecurity an extremely important aspect, and ever so increasing in importance, of any organization and their computer infrastructure and software solutions, Microsoft has introduced…
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and service provided by Microsoft. It offers a wide range of cloud services, including computing, analytics, storage, and networking. Azure enables businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft’s global network of data centers. With support for various programming languages, tools, and frameworks, Azure provides solutions for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Known for its strong integration with Microsoft products and services, Azure is designed to provide secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions for enterprises of all sizes.
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Top 10 Azure Cosmos DB Planned Features Coming Soon as of July 2022
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s scalable, fully managed, serverless NoSQL database as a service offering. The service provides a lot of really great features for…
Azure Functions: Copy Blob Between Azure Storage Accounts in C#
I recently worked on a project where I was required to write an Azure Function that would watch for newly stored files in Azure Blob…
Azure CLI: Add/Remove IP Addresses on Azure Synapse Firewall
Recently, I performed a lot of work as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer on a project that utilizes Azure Synapse for a…
Azure Functions: Extend Execution Timeout Past 5 Minutes
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…
Azure IoT Development Tools for Visual Studio Code
You can use Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to develop Azure Internet of Things solutions using Azure services; like Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Edge, and…
Microsoft Azure Certification: Where to Start?
The question of “Where to start with Microsoft Azure Certification?” is a common one. Navigating the gauntlet of certification paths and exams can seem a…
Deploy C# Script Function App using Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline
A powerful way to write and build Azure Functions is to use C# Script. This allows you to easily write function directly within the Azure…
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…
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…
Fix Kubernetes Dashboard Strange 401 Unauthorized, 503 Service Unavailable Errors
When working with Kubernetes (K8s) using a kubectl proxy, or even in Azure with the az aks browse command using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). There…
Microsoft Azure Space – Innovation on Earth and Beyond
Microsoft is advancing cloud datacenters where no cloud datacenter has gone before; into Space! They have brought together a team of renowned space industry veterans…
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…
Azure TLS certificate changes
Microsoft is making changes to their certificates and it is important to understand how these changes will impact your deployments. Azure will be changed to…
Azure Outages with Azure Front Door and Internal Azure WAN (October 6 – 7, 2020)
It seems Microsoft is having quite a few outages lately. With last weeks Azure AD outage, Microsoft has continued to have some service disruptions this…
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…
Is Azure Active Directory Microsoft’s weakest link?
How can there be a single point of failure in a service that runs the entire Microsoft cloud? Yesterday, there was a global outage of…
Azure AD is Down Blocking Access to Azure, Teams, and more! – September 28, 2020 Microsoft Azure Outage
At approximately 21:25 UTC on September 28, 2020, the Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) started experiencing a global outage causing many users to be…
Top Azure IoT Announcements and Sessions from Microsoft Ignite 2020
There have been a few great Azure IoT announcements and session made available by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Ignite 2020 virtual conference. With…
Migrate to Azure DevTest Labs
Earlier this year I wrote a few new articles for the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). One of the docs I was excited about is…