Azure news below from the latest Need to Know podcast, episode 160. Announcing the new and improved Azure Log Analytics The Azure Log Analytics service is rolling out an upgrade to existing customers – offering powerful search, smart analytics and even deeper insights. This upgrade provides an interactive query language and an advanced analytics portal,…
Azure Connectivity Check, Azure ISO certifications, Azure Container Instances, Accelerated Networking, App Service Domains and more on the latest edition of the Need to Know podcast. Wow, it’s week 31 already, where is time going, time is getting away from us. The Networking Watcher team is excited to announce connectivity check in Public preview! You…
Something that was announced recently at Microsoft Build 2017 in the US was all the new features released part of Azure Resource Manager deployment using JSON templates. Property Iteration – copying of properties within resources Resource Iteration – parallel or serial copying of resources in CopySet constructs Cross Resource Group Deployment Conditions The video of…
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I had a requirement recently in my adventures with Azure JSON/DSC VM deployment, I needed a way to store source files and software in a repository in a publicly accessible Azure blob storage container. So that post deployment, my VM could use DSC and pull down the source files, decrypt them and work with them.…
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If you wanted to ever setup a service account to use for Azure administration that uses a password for authentication, setup a Service Principal in AAD. Use this to use for things like Azure automation or any of those other Azure PowerShell admin scripts you have. See my other post on how to setup an Azure…
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Azure is a leader, Azure Certificate changes, Azure Roadmap, Managed Applications, free PluralSight courses and much more on the Need to Know podcast. Gartner has recognised Microsoft as a leader Gartner has recognised Microsoft as a leader in their Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) MQ for the fourth consecutive year. More than 90 percent…
Azure Backup Server v2, Azure Site Recovery Azure-2-Azure, Machine Groups in Service Map plus more on Episode 157 of the Need to Know podcast. Consolidating our mobile management tools under Azure We have consolidated our Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) suite of products under the new Azure portal, combining the Intune mobile application management tools, Azure Active Directory…
Azure News as heard on the Need to Know podcast. New faster VPN Gateways, Larger Azure disks, plus more…. New Azure VPN Gateways now 6x faster There are a whole bunch of new generation of VPN gateways with better performance, better reliability and backed by an even stricter SLA – at the same price as our…
Did you ever wanted to automate everything in Azure? Using Azure Automation or using Remote PowerShell – pretty much anything automated in Azure, you should NOT be using a stock standard user account. Why? Because you can have all sorts of problems, for instance the password can expire and then it breaks everything and everything…
Azure News as heard on the Need to Know podcast. Episode 155 with both Rob and myself. Public preview of disaster recovery for Azure IaaS virtual machines You can now easily replicate and protect IaaS based applications running on Azure to a different Azure region of your choice within a geographical cluster without deploying any…
