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Ignite Azure Update – Day 1
As expected, day 1 of Microsoft’s Ignite conference saw a large number of announcements across all products, including Azure. Below you’ll find my summary of Azure announcements I pulled in
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Virtual Network Service Endpoints
It didn’t make it into todays Ignite Keynote, but today Microsoft released a preview of a new Azure service, Service Endpoints. It is now possible to take Azure services that
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Building Azure Scale Set Images with Packer and DSC
Virtual Machines in a Scale Set provide a great way to spin up many identical machines in parralell. Thes VMs are all based on a common VM image and so
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Azure AD Connect and The Trouble With Expired Passwords
In an on premises world, with Active Directory, password expiry is easy. Set the required policy for your domain, make sure it’s applied and forget about it, AD will take
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Dynamic ARM Templates with Inline Logic Operators
A while back I wrote an article talking about the new “Condition” option in Azure Resource Manger (ARM) templates. This was the first step into conditional logic in ARM templates
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Introduction to Azure Container Instances
Microsoft today released a public preview of a new service, Azure Container Instances. This may seem confusing initially, Azure already has a container service called Azure Container Services (ACS), but
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Azure Resource Policies Part 1 – Built in Policies
As your Azure usage increased you will inevitably need to grant rights to other users to create and manage resources. Often you need to apply limits to what these user can
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Setup Storage Replica in Azure
In my last article we discussed the various different options for providing SMB shares in Azure given the lack of shared storage. One of the options we discussed for this was
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SMB File Sharing in Azure
In an ideal world, all our cloud applications would be designed from the ground up to work with the cloud, they would be designed to work with cloud principals, make
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Azure Resource Manger Snippets for VSCode
I previously wrote about using VS Code for authoring Azure Resource Manger templates, in particular about using the snippets from the cross platform toolkit to create skeletons for many ARM
