The Humble Application Gateway

Azure Application Gateways offer an easy way to present web based applications without exposing your systems or content to the public Internet. Additionally, the App Gateway also provides a number of pretty advanced features such as URL based traffic routing, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and the traditional stability of a rock solid Layer 4 Load Balancer for web traffic….

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Posted on 9:19 am
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Azure File Shares - Serverless File Shares

Create an Azure File Share – Server-less File Sharing

There has been a shift towards server-less computing happening for some time now. What does it mean for storage, files, and how we access data such as files? I’ve had the good fortune to work with some amazing technical people over the years and I’ve recently had a couple of colleagues ask me about what it may mean for their career with this shift to server-less computing…

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Posted on 11:22 am
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Azure Resource Lock to Prevent Accidental Delete

Delete a Resource Group with a Lock

Here I am spending a Sunday afternoon writing articles to share with the Azure community and as I start to rush through things a bit I notice the dreaded red X in my Azure notifications tray. I thought that today, I’d share how I’m just a regular human that rushes through things on occasion. So, I forgot to remove my Resource Lock on my Demo subscription and now….

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Posted on 6:39 pm
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Promote a Member Server to Domain Controller

Promote a Windows Server to a Domain Controller

Today, we’re going to promote a domain controller in Windows Server Active Directory from being a member server of the domain into a leadership role — the Domain Controller. If you missed the last article on domain joining a Windows Server you can catch up right here. It’s important to have a domain controller placed in strategic places on your network (subnets) so that authentication of users and services can happen with the least latency and that there is some redundancy created between the domain controllers in your domain…

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Posted on 10:30 am
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Join a Windows Server Active Directory Domain

Domain Join a Windows Server

Why join a server to your Windows Server Active Directory domain? You would do this to unify service accounts, apply Group Policies, and unify your administrative accounts and management. There are still many organizations that debate the security advantages and disadvantages of domain memberships, but today we are here to join a server to an existing domain on your network. We will join the server to the domain, then promote the server to an Active Directory Domain Controller…

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Posted on 8:32 pm
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Cleanup of Azure Resources

Create an Azure Virtual Environment – Cleanup

This article is the last in a mini-series that has shown you how to build out an Azure virtual environment to do learning and testing with. If you already have a subscription that’s awesome! You can get the first 30 days for free with a Microsoft Azure trial account right here. Check out the first steps for getting logged into Azure Portal and creating a resource group here. Today we are going to look at what cleanup we should do once we are done testing….

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Posted on 7:56 am
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Microsoft Azure

Azure Backup – Selective Disk Backup and Restore

Azure Preview announced that Selective disk backup and restore will be available upon request in Preview.

This is a great step towards making your Azure subscriptions more cost effective and reducing duplicated backup services.

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Posted on 11:55 am