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  • Microsoft Ignite 2025: Compute, Security, Architecture & AzureTracks Highlights

    Microsoft Ignite 2025: Compute, Security, Architecture & AzureTracks Highlights

    Microsoft Ignite 2025 delivered transformative updates across cloud computing, security, and architectural best practices. This year’s announcements emphasize AI-driven optimization, zero-trust security, and hybrid cloud strategies, alongside AzureTracks, a structured learning initiative for cloud professionals. An incredible week for Microsoft Cloud yet again this year!

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  • Azure Updates – Number 6 – March 13, 2021

    Azure Updates – Number 6 – March 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 March 13th. Great updates and sunny days on the way!

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  • Azure Updates – Number 5 – March 6, 2021 – Ignite Special

    Azure Updates – Number 5 – March 6, 2021 – Ignite Special

    A summary update on Ignite March 2021 Azure News that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Links to all the resource updates with each item. Hopefully this will save you some time digging around to find recent releases and changes. There was so many releases this past…

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  • Move Azure Resources to a Different Region – Azure Resource Mover – Part 2

    Move Azure Resources to a Different Region – Azure Resource Mover – Part 2

    Continuing our Azure Resource Mover tutorial, we will pick up at the Initiate Move stage. This is Part 2 of 2 articles using Resource Mover to move a VM and associated bits to a new region. We are moving our demo VM from West Europe to East US, and it’s been going really well! We…

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  • Move Azure Resources to a Different Region – Azure Resource Mover

    Move Azure Resources to a Different Region – Azure Resource Mover

    Today we’ll take a look at how to use Azure Resource Mover to move a virtual machine with some supporting resources to a different region. Reasons to do this are to reduce cost of resources, move a VM to a region where other services it connects to are located, or because you need to have…

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  • Adding Layers of Azure – Azure Arc – Manage Hybrid and Multi-Cloud

    Adding Layers of Azure – Azure Arc – Manage Hybrid and Multi-Cloud

    Azure Arc extends Azure management across your hybrid and on-premises environments, extends to multi-cloud, helps to manage deployment to nearly any infrastructure, and simplifies complex infrastructure environments. In short, Azure Arc allows you to use Azure services and management tools to manage your complex distributed infra…

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  • Can you Enable SMBv1 on Azure VMs?

    Can you Enable SMBv1 on Azure VMs?

    Occasionally an enterprise environment will have a requirement to retain legacy authentication systems that may need to use SMBv1. What are the options when you move your services and infrastructure to Azure… When first looking at this challenge we really (really!) need to acknowledge the dangers and risks that when dealing with SMBv1… Read the…

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  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets – What are they for anyways?

    Virtual Machine Scale Sets – What are they for anyways?

    Today we’re going to talk a little bit about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. What they do for us and why we would want to deploy VMs using scale sets. I’ve encountered a few situations where a business has deployed multiple systems to try and handle the growth of their systems during peak demand times……

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  • Create an Azure Virtual Environment – Accessing Storage Account File Shares

    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…

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  • Create an Azure Virtual Environment – Accessing Storage Accounts

    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…

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