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  • Azure Updates – Number 4 – Feb 27, 2021

    Azure Updates – Number 4 – Feb 27, 2021

    A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes. Released Feb 27th, 2021. End of life dates, sentinel false positives, new isolated hardware skus & more!

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  • Azure Tags – Why Use Tagging?

    Azure Tags – Why Use Tagging?

    Today, we will talk about why we should use tags in Azure, and start expanding on the idea and see what tagging can do to improve our subscriptions. We look at cost monitoring, app owner improvements, security, and data classification…

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  • Azure Updates – Number 3 – Feb 13, 2021

    Azure Updates – Number 3 – Feb 13, 2021

    A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes. Released Feb 13th

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  • How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 5 – PowerShell Templates

    How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 5 – PowerShell Templates

    Using PowerShell to deploy a JSON template via GitHub is our final stop on deployment of Microsoft Azure virtual machines. We’ve looked at 4 other ways to deploy a VM in Azure so far and today we look at…

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  • How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 4 – JSON Templates

    How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 4 – JSON Templates

    Today we continue our deployment of Microsoft Azure virtual machines and start exploring JSON and ARM templates. There are a lot of ways to do deployment as we continue our look at the options. Let’s look at templates in JSON for creating VM infrastructure.

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  • Azure Updates – Number 2 – January 30, 2021

    Azure Updates – Number 2 – January 30, 2021

    A summary update on Azure News that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. I’ll provide links to all the resource updates with each item. Hopefully this will save you some time digging around to find recent releases and changes. Updates will include….

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  • How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 3 – PowerShell in Cloud Shell

    How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 3 – PowerShell in Cloud Shell

    Today we continue our deployment of Microsoft Azure virtual machines. There are many ways to do this – some manual – and some that support automation; we’ll continue our look at the options. Still a great way to get started with your Azure Infrastructure deployments is right in the Azure Portal, let’s take a look…

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  • How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 2 – CLI in Cloud Shell

    How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 2 – CLI in Cloud Shell

    Today we continue our deployment of Microsoft Azure virtual machines. There are many ways to do this – some manual – and some that support automation; we’ll continue our look at the options. Let’s take a look at CLI for creating VM infrastructure…

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  • How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines

    How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines

    Let’s talk about how to deploy a Microsoft Azure virtual machine. There are many ways to do this – some manual – and some that support automation; we’ll look at quite a few of the options starting with some simpler ones first. A great way to get started with your Azure Infrastructure deployments is right…

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  • Managing Azure Resources – A Primer – Controlling Costs with Automation

    Managing Azure Resources – A Primer – Controlling Costs with Automation

    Last time we looked at some different ways of getting started with managing your Azure resources. Today I’d like to introduce you a little bit to Azure Automation – this time for saving money in shutting down unused resources – and also starting them on a schedule. Last article we created a demo resource group…

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