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Azure Invoice and Detailed Billing Downloads

Azure Billing – Where’s My Invoice?

In today’s post I’ve done a quick video to show you how to find, download, and preview your invoices in PDF format. You also get the option to download a detailed billing CSV file (comma separated values) that provides the ability for you to sort…

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Posted on 5:09 pm
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Cost Analysis Projected Cost of Tagged Resources

Using Resource Tags in Cost Managment

Today we dive into pulling the cost breakdowns so we can bill back costs to other departments by using Azure tags attached to different resources. Last week we discussed how tags can be used for different reasons and walked through setting tags up for a resource….

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Posted on 11:26 am
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Azure Resource Tags

How to Use Tags to Identify Resources

In Azure, we can use tags attached to different resources to help us classify them for lots of different reasons. The most common are uses for tags are security, management, and billing. Today we’ll take a short look at how to…

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Posted on 7:29 am
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Commercial Printer

Azure Universal Print

The long-awaited cloud printing solution from Microsoft is on the way and available now in Preview for specific customers in Commercial and Education tracks. You must be also be a Microsoft 365…

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Posted on 7:24 am

Application Gateway – The Listener

Application Gateways provide a secure way to load balance and route incoming web requests to your Azure resources. Today we will look at getting HTTPS requests to come inbound from a browser to your App Gateway, then get sent to the correct server to handle secure requests. A configuration may use this design if you are using an insecure site on port 80 on HTTP to support usage of an internal web….

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Posted on 1:12 pm

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