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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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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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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
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Securing and mapping Azure File Share

Create an Azure Virtual Environment – Accessing Storage Account File Shares

This article is the fifth in a mini-series that will show 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 how to access our file share inside the storage account remotely from a workstation not inside Azure….

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Azure File Share Demo

Create an Azure Virtual Environment – Accessing Storage Accounts

This article is the fourth in a mini-series that will show 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 how to access our storage account within the resource group we created in the…

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Posted on 11:20 am
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Storage Account

Create an Azure Virtual Environment – Storage Accounts

… that will show 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 deploy a storage account within the resource group….

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Posted on 1:09 pm
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Azure Create a Resource

Create an Azure Virtual Environment – Resource Group

If you’re reading about Azure and you’ve already done some reading, maybe used some free Microsoft training resources and you are curious about learning more; you’re in the right place! Today, we will cover some of the first steps as you begin your Azure journey. It’s a great day to get started with some hands-on learning so let’s begin by…

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Posted on 4:23 pm
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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