Category: Pre-Migration

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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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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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Posted on 1:36 pm
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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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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…
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Posted on 10:38 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