Author: Andrew

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Storage Account Deployment

Azure Storage – Keep Your Data inside Azure

Why would you want to keep data inside Azure? Don’t users need to get their files? Let’s talk about data security and data charges as part of our Azure design. When you create a file server, file share out of an Azure Storage Account, or otherwise allow users to access their data, it often can move through your Azure virtual networks through the Internet. Today, we will look at selecting build options to keep your data inside Azure on the Azure backbone, and as a result of that we will limit Internet access and decrease data egress.

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Posted on 6:33 pm
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Storage Account Options

Azure Storage – Restrict Storage Accounts to a Virtual Network

Today, we will restrict the access to the storage account to a single virtual network to ensure that it is more secure and not accessible over the internet directly. This is something to consider when designing your Azure storage as there are specific use cases where the design should be more secure. This does not mean it is harder for users to get data! It just means that we as Azure builders need to build our systems thoughtfully. In this case, your file servers or an application server would be segregated onto a single VNET (virtual network) and would be the only systems able to freely…

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Posted on 6:54 pm
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Cloud Concepts

Azure Readiness – Fundamentals Skills

Why would a manager or supervisor, or even the CFO need to understand Azure Fundamentals? Isn’t that type of knowledge handled by the technical people and why would our managers need this knowledge? These are questions that I come across regularly; and my answer is always the same. As a business moves towards cloud adoption, it’s important that all stakeholders understand the basics, terminologies, and have a foundational understanding of the platforms. Now, I’m not suggesting that a CFO is going to be setting up your Azure subscriptions; but wouldn’t it be great if they understood all the concepts and could help you communicate technical changes to other non-technical leaders? When ideas are understood…
See the full article for more discussion on Azure Fundamental concepts.

Posted on 10:38 am
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Azure CLI in VS Code

Create an RDP file for your Azure Virtual Machine in PowerShell

Ever need to quickly connect to one of your virtual machines in Azure? You can use CLI or Azure PowerShell module and the Get-AzRemoteDesktopFile cmdlet to create an RDP file to use for your connection! This is not a widely known method, but it can save you loads of time!
See how to use RDP files from Azure CLI by reading on…

Posted on 6:49 am
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Azure CLI in VSCode

How to Use VS Code for Azure CLI

To keep as much flexibility in my connection and administration work as possible, I like to take advantage of all the hard work of the teams that have given us (the general public) tools like PowerShell, VS Code, and Azure CLI. My clients know that my love of PowerShell is almost equal to that of my mountain biking, but let’s stay focused today! We will walk through getting you setup to use Azure CLI from inside VS Code. This will only take about 15 minutes for you to get up and running, so let’s get started!
Read on to get VSCode setup…

Posted on 7:59 am
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Microsoft Azure Infrastructure

Azure Naming Conventions

Most Admins are aware why we should use a standardized naming convention across all your resources, but sometimes we have to explain it to business members or new admins that have not considered this before. It can be a contentious topic sometimes, but Microsoft Docs guides us through this process….

For examples and explanations of naming conventions read on…

Posted on 6:29 am
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Azure Speed Test 2.0

Azure Readiness – Let’s Talk Network Latency

Understanding your network latency between you and your favourite Azure Region is important.  It can be the difference between responsive services hosted inside Azure, and a negative user experience.  Especially if you are using Azure VPN and not Express Route services.

To understand what region is likely better for you to be working out of, host your primary resources in (because I know you would want to use geographically balanced services for redundancy — right?) and has the ‘best’ overall speed between that Azure datacenter and your network; let’s take a closer look at how to easily test this out.

Keep reading to find out more about your own speeds between you and your Azure datacenters…

Posted on 4:10 am
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Log Analytics Azure Monitoring Alerting Rules

Log Analytics Alerting

Why is alerting from Azure Log Analytics important? We need to be able to create alerts so that administrators can be made aware of potential problems so that they can be investigated and corrected quickly. Sounds simple right? Well, thanks to Azure Log Analytics and Monitoring Alerts in Azure, it is.

Keep reading to learn more about alerting driven through log analytics conditional triggers in Azure…

Posted on 6:49 am