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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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  • Managing Azure Resources – A Primer

    Managing Azure Resources – A Primer

    Let’s take a ground-level look at managing your resources in Azure. I want to introduce a few different methods to control your resources such as virtual machines, storage accounts, and anything that you keep within a resource group really. Let’s dive right in and find some different ways to work with and control our resources!

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  • Video – Setting up for a Demo with Azure CLI

    Video – Setting up for a Demo with Azure CLI

    Join me for a start to finish Azure CLI walk-through of creating resources to use for testing or doing a demonstration in Azure. I create a Debian and Windows Server VM in about 5 minutes then we clean everything up when we’re done. Let’s build some Azure resources together and see just how easy and…

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  • Setting up for a Demo with Azure CLI

    Setting up for a Demo with Azure CLI

    I’ve been asked a few times to share how I setup for doing a demo using different Azure resources. So, I’ll share my first way of setting up — Azure CLI. Today, we’ll walk through some of the steps I run and how to save it to do it all again next time. This is…

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  • Create an RDP file for your Azure Virtual Machine in PowerShell

    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…

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  • How to Use VS Code for Azure CLI

    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…

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