#storage
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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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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…
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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…
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Azure Storage – Create a Storage Account
Let’s take a look at how to create a storage account in Azure that you can use for storing your files. This will be the first in a series of articles that will show you how to create, secure, and then optimize usage on the Azure internal backbone for your storage account data. First, let’s…
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Azure Storage Diagnostics
What is a diagnostic log? A diagnostic log provides information about the operations of a resource – in this case a storage account inside Azure.