Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - Index

An Easter Egg or hidden feature within the Azure Portal - Simplified View of all resources

How to create and use the Storage Event Trigger in Azure Data Factory

Azure Script Samples - Series Index

Capacity Reservations experience now available within Azure Site Recovery (ASR)

Understanding Capacity Reservations in Azure

Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - 11 Automating deployment

Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - 10 Troubleshooting common issues

Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - 9 Securing inbound connectivity

Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - 8 Caveats

Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - 7 Various Tools - Part 2

Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - 6 Various Tools - Part 1

Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - 5 Working with it

Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - 4 Connecting to it

Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - 3 Under the hood

Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - 2 Setting it up

Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal - 1 Intro to the Easiest Server Management

Protecting Recovery Services Vaults with Resource Guard and Multi-user authorizations

Mount point changes and Non-standard SWAP disk creation on Linux VMs in Azure

Finding certified VM SKUs in Microsoft Azure for SAP deployments

Enhanced Monitoring Agent for SAP workloads in Azure - Fix for a common issue

Troubleshooting & Validating - Enhanced Monitoring Agent for SAP workloads in Azure

Installing Enhanced Monitoring Agent for Multiple SAP workloads in Azure - Code Sample

Enhanced Monitoring Agent for SAP workloads in Azure - Details and Installation

Grant access to Azure Storage Accounts for Azure resource instances

Enabling Storage Account access to virtual networks in other regions

Quick Tip - Finding SLA of any Azure service

Quick Tip - Understanding uptime and downtime linked to any Cloud SLA numbers

Upgrade to Azure Storage account with Data Lake Gen2 easily with new feature

Finding the optimal Availability Zone for your Microsoft Azure subscription

Automate locking of all resources of a particular type - Code Sample

Automating the enabling of BYOS licensing for all SUSE VMs in Azure - Code Sample

Switching SUSE VMs from PAYG to BYOS model

Easily and automatically generate architecture diagrams in Azure with the Resource Visualizer

Automating the enabling of BYOS licensing for all Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) VMs in Azure - Code Sample

Switching Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) VMs from PAYG to BYOS model

Azure policies now let you customize non-compliance messages

Find all preview features that you can try now in Azure easily

Export all custom Azure Policies - Code Sample

Designing Tagging Strategy for Microsoft Azure - Index

Designing Tagging Strategy for Microsoft Azure - Part 7 - Enforcing tagging standards with Azure Policies

Moving an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) to an Availability Zone the automated way - with complete Code Sample

Designing Tagging Strategy for Microsoft Azure - Part 6 - Auto Calculate and Apply Tags

Designing Tagging Strategy for Microsoft Azure - Part 5 - Combining strategies

Designing Tagging Strategy for Microsoft Azure - Part 4 - Enforcing Tags at the Resource Group level and Inheriting on underlying resources

Designing Tagging Strategy for Microsoft Azure - Part 3 - Enforcing Tags at the Subscription level and Inheriting on underlying resources

Designing Tagging Strategy for Microsoft Azure - Part 2 - Enforcing Tags at the Resource level

Designing Tagging Strategy for Microsoft Azure - Part 1 - Basics

Azure Backup Series - Index

Azure Recovery Services Vaults vs Backup Vaults

New Feature Alert - Zone redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage and Azure Storage Accounts

Simplifying the Azure Backup Center - Part 2

Simplifying the Azure Backup Center - Part 1

Automatically trigger on-demand SAP HANA on Azure VM Backup for multiple Databases - Code Sample

Automatically trigger on-demand Azure VM Backup for multiple VMs - Code Sample

Automate Azure Route Table testing using Network Watcher and PowerShell scripting - Code Sample

Block all public access to Azure Storage Accounts - via Azure policy - with complete sample

Block all public access to Azure Storage Accounts - via manual setting

Getting a report for all VMs and it's related OS and Data Disks - Code Sample

Restricting resource types from creation in Azure via Azure Policy

Enforcing Naming Convention for Resource Group via Azure Policy

Enforcing resources to have the same location as the containing resource group via Azure Policy

Enforcing location restrictions in your environment via Azure Policy

Azure Key Vault service SLA raised to 99.99% from 99.9%

Azure Site Recovery now supports cross-continental disaster recovery - although only for 3 region pairs

Log analytics workspace name uniqueness is now per resource group

Azure Bastion Series - Index

Simplifying Azure Bastion - 8 Managing Azure Bastion - Session Management, Monitoring and Alerting

Simplifying Azure Bastion - 7 NSG and Firewall configurations

Simplifying Azure Bastion - 6 Clipboard access and going Full screen

Simplifying Azure Bastion - 5 Connecting to VM Scale Sets (VMSS) using Azure Bastion

Simplifying Azure Bastion - 4 Connecting to Linux VMs using Azure Bastion over SSH

Simplifying Azure Bastion - 3 Connecting to Windows VMs using Azure Bastion

Simplifying Azure Bastion - 2 Create an Azure Bastion Host

Simplifying Azure Bastion - 1 What is Azure Bastion

Service Tags are now supported for Defining Routes in Route Tables

Finding IP address ranges for SUSE Linux Enterprise images to work in Microsoft Azure behind Firewall or NSGs

How to Copy data from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Storage to Microsoft Azure Storage Block Blob

Simplified process for publishing VM Images to Azure Marketplace

Dynamic data masking granular permissions for Azure SQL and Azure Synapse Analytics

SQL insights in Azure Monitor

Creating alerts based on Azure Forecasts for spending

Configuring the Azure Route Server

Creating the Azure Route Server

Understanding the Azure Route Server

Azure Backup - Managing the backup-related alerts via the Azure Monitor

Auditing of Microsoft operations in an Azure SQL Database

Microsoft retiring many older services by 29 February 2024

Azure Backup - Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available

Enabling soft delete for blobs in an Azure Storage Account

Setting up the Routing Preferences in Azure

Azure Backup - Configuring Azure Backup for Azure File Shares

Connectivity Requirements for RDP Licensing Server Connectivity and Firewall Rules

Azure Backup - Troubleshooting the backup issues for SQL Server on Azure VM or SAP HANA on Azure VM (Database).

Azure Backup - Understanding the backup policy for SAP HANA in Azure VM (Database)

Azure Backup - Understanding the backup policy for SQL Server in Azure VM

Azure SQL - Sync to other databases - 4 - Configure sync group

Azure SQL - Sync to other databases - 3 - Add sync members

Azure SQL - Sync to other databases - 2 - Create sync group

Azure SQL - Sync to other databases - 1 - Overview

Azure Backup - Backup Center in Microsoft Azure

Azure Backup - Bring your own keys (BYOK) for recovery services vaults - 5 Assign the encryption key to the Recovery Services vault

Azure Backup - Bring your own keys (BYOK) for recovery services vaults - 4 Enable Soft Delete and purge protection on the Azure Key Vault

Azure Backup - Bring your own keys (BYOK) for recovery services vaults - 3 Assign permissions to the vault to access the encryption key in the Azure Key Vault

Azure Backup - Bring your own keys (BYOK) for recovery services vaults - 2 Enable managed identity for your Recovery Services vault

Azure Backup - Bring your own keys (BYOK) for recovery services vaults - 1 Overview

Azure Backup - Soft Delete for Recovery Services Vault

Azure Backup - Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Backup

Azure Backup - Set Storage Redundancy for Recovery Services Vault

How to get alerts based on your spending in Azure

Creating the Action Groups for alerts in Microsoft Azure

Understanding the Action Groups for alerts in Microsoft Azure

Azure for AWS professionals - Index

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - Azure - 06 Using Service Tags to define rules in NSGs

eBook - 6 Step Migration Strategy – Systematic Approach to Migrating your Workloads to Microsoft Azure

Data Factory Basics and Azure SQL Basics Series - Index

Azure SQL Basics - Setting up Private Endpoints on an Azure SQL Server

Troubleshooting Azure Networking - Using Network Watcher

Troubleshooting Azure Networking - Checking Allowed and Denied Traffic in Network Security Groups (NSGs) via Log Analytics Queries

Troubleshooting Azure Networking - Setting up Flow Logs Monitoring on Network Security Groups (NSGs)

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - Azure - 06 Geo Replication on Storage accounts

Leveraging Service Tags to define better rules in Network Security Groups

Azure Data Factory Basics - Creation of Azure SSIS Integration Runtime (IR) into Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory Basics - Exploring the Azure Data Factory layout

Expose an Azure Function App via API Management

Azure Data Factory Basics - Creating a Data Factory

Managing cost for both Microsoft Azure and AWS from within Azure

Azure SQL Basics - Restoring Azure SQL Database from the backup

Azure SQL Basics - Managing Backups for Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Basics - Azure Active Directory Admin - manage Azure SQL via AD Users

Azure SQL Basics - Creating Elastic Pool in Azure SQL Server

Azure SQL Basics - Automatic Tuning and Performance recommendation

Azure SQL Basics - Query Performance Insights

Azure SQL Basics - Advanced Data Security

Azure SQL Basics - Exploring the new Query Editor in the Azure Portal

Azure SQL Basics - Data Masking of sensitive information

Azure SQL Basics - Enabling Geo-Replication for Disaster Recovery

Azure SQL Basics - Connecting to Azure SQL DB using SSMS

Azure SQL Basics - Creating Azure SQL Databases

Azure SQL Basics - Finding Azure SQL Databases in the Azure Portal

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - Azure - 05 Creating rules in NSGs and assigning NSGs

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - Azure - 04 Creating Network Security Groups

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - Azure - 03 Service Endpoints

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - Azure - 02 Working with Virtual Networks (vNets) and Subnets

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - Azure - 01 Creating Virtual Network

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - AWS - 06 Network ACLs vs Security Groups

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - AWS - 05 Security Groups

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - AWS - 04 Network ACLs

Introducing Azure VMware Solutions

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - AWS - 03 Route Tables

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - AWS - 02 Working with VPCs and Subnets

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - AWS - 01 Creating Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Azure for AWS professionals - Networking - Azure Virtual Networks vs AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - AWS - 07 Setting up Access Points on S3 bucket

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - AWS - 06 Configuring replication on S3 buckets

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - AWS - 05 Adding Lifecycle Rules for S3 buckets

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - AWS - 04 Setting Permissions on S3 Bucket

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - AWS - 03 Configuring S3 Bucket Properties

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - AWS - 02 Working with S3 bucket and uploading files

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - AWS - 01 Creating Simple Storage Service or S3 buckets

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - Azure - 05 Configuring Firewall and vNet access on Storage accounts

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - Azure - 04 Securely Accessing Storage Accounts

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - Azure - 03 Event driven automation of Azure Storage accounts

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - Azure - 02 Data Transfer Options

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - Azure - 01 Creating Azure Storage Account

Azure for AWS professionals - Storage - Microsoft Azure Storage Accounts vs AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)

Azure for AWS professionals - Azure Managed Disks vs AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - AWS - 05 AWS Auto Scaling service

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - AWS - 04 Creating Auto Scaling Groups - Part 2

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - AWS - 04 Creating Auto Scaling Groups - Part 1

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - AWS - 03 Creating Launch Templates

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - AWS - 02 Creating Launch Configurations

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - AWS - 01 All Related Resources for Auto Scaling

Azure AD activity logs now integrated with Log Analytics in Azure Monitor

Azure SQL Database now has a Serverless Compute Tier

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - Azure - 04 Viewing the Run History of VMSS

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - Azure - 03 Updating the Scaling policies of VMSS

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - Azure - 02 View Running Instances in VMSS

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - Azure - 01 Creating VMSS - Part 2

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - Azure - 01 Creating VMSS - Part 1

Azure for AWS professionals - Auto Scaling - Azure VMSS vs AWS Auto Scaling

Azure for AWS professionals - Batch Services - AWS - Working with AWS Batch Service

Azure for AWS professionals - Batch Services - Azure - 4 Creating Tasks in a Batch Job

Azure App Service now has a free Linux tier and supports Python and Java

Azure for AWS professionals - Batch Services - Azure - 3 Creating Job in the Batch Pool

Azure for AWS professionals - Batch Services - Azure - 2 Creating Batch Pool in an Account

Azure for AWS professionals - Batch Services - Azure - 1 Creating Batch account

Azure for AWS professionals - Batch Services - Azure vs AWS

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 11 - Protecting Azure VMs

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 10 - Backing up Azure VMs

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 09 - Backing up EC2 instances Part 3

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 09 - Backing up EC2 instances Part 2

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 09 - Backing up EC2 instances Part 1

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 08 - Azure VM Insights

Azure App Configuration Service

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 07 - Boot Diagnostics of Azure VMs

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 06 - Monitoring of Azure VMs

New Tiers in Azure Application Gateway - Standard v2 and WAF v2 SKUs

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 05 - Monitoring of EC2 instances

Azure now supports GitHub identity single sign-on

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 04 - Differences in IOPS

PowerShell support in Azure Functions

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 03 - Creating Azure VMs

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 02 - Creating EC2 Instances

Azure Updates: Azure Front Door Service

Azure Updates: ExpressRoute Direct and Global Reach

Azure for AWS professionals - Virtual Machines vs EC2 instances - 01 - Finding resources

General Availability Alert - Azure AD Password Protection is now GA

Azure Awareness Month - Webinar #5 Video - How to Use Azure Site Recovery for Backup, Migration, and Disaster Recovery

Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure - Public Preview Alert

Azure Awareness Month - Webinar #4 Video - Security in Azure - How to Make Your Environment More Secure

Differences between Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps

Azure Awareness Month - Webinar #3 Video - ARM Template Basics: Automated & Repeatable Deployments in Microsoft Azure

Azure Awareness Month - Webinar #2 Video - Automate Your Azure Environment with Azure Automation and Azure Functions

Azure Awareness Month - Webinar #1 Video - Getting Started with Azure – Basics, Tips, and Tricks

Azure Tips & Tricks - Series Index

Azure Tips & Tricks - Quickly assign and check the Azure Policy and Initiative Compliance status of your resources with new Azure feature

Azure Updates - New VM-series for Confidential Computing

Azure Tips & Tricks - Quickly navigate Azure Portal and search documentation with ease

Azure Tips & Tricks - Find solutions to most common problems for any resource

Azure Tips & Tricks - Bootstrap Automation for Existing resources for repeated deployments in multiple environments

Azure Tips & Tricks - Bootstrap Automation for New resources for repeated deployments in multiple environments

Azure Tips & Tricks - Quickly run commands or script on an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) without logging into the VM

Script Sample - Disassociate and Associate Subnets to Route Tables

Script Sample - Generate Report for Route Tables with associated Subnets and related information

Script Sample - Removing Locks from Azure Resources

Script Sample - VM Operations - Working with VM Snapshots and moving the Managed VMs across subscriptions and regions

Script Sample - VM Operations - Export VM Configurations

Script Sample - VM Operations - Apply HUB Licensing to Existing VMs

Script Sample - VM Operations - Change Azure VM Size

Script Sample - VM Operations - Convert VM to Managed Disk VM

Script Sample - VM Operations - Setting up the VM Backup

Script Sample - Checking if the Prompt for current script is Elevated or not

Script Sample - Creating Multiple Resource Groups with RBAC Role Assignment

Script Sample - Set Tags on Azure Resources

Script Sample - Generate Azure Resources Report by Tags v3.0

Script Sample - Getting Azure Resource Reports

Script Sample - Apply RBAC Role to Users on Resources

Script Sample - Check for Pending Reboots on various VMs in your environment

Script Sample - Apply Locks on Various Azure Resources

Script Sample - Azure Automation - Check VM Availability

Script Sample - Azure Automation - Get VM Information from actual Azure Virtual Machine

Script Sample - Azure Automation - Sending Email Notification

Script Sample - Azure Automation - Get VM Information from ASR Recovery Plan Context

Script Sample - Azure Automation - Runbook for ASR Recovery Plan

Updating a Custom RBAC Role in Azure

Script Sample - Set Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Prerequisite Services

Script Sample - Check Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Prerequisite Services

Script Sample - Format EA Billing Usage Csv for Tags

Script Sample - Export All OMS Log Analytics Saved Searches

Script Sample - Export All Azure Automation Account Runbooks and Variables

Book published on Amazon - Quick and Practical Guide to ARM Templates

Getting Started with Virtual Machine Serial Console access

Demystifying Azure Security - Series Index

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) - Series Index

Demystifying Azure Security - Azure SQL Database - Dynamic Data Masking

Demystifying Azure Security - Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage - Service Endpoints on Virtual Network

Demystifying Azure Security - Azure SQL Database - Firewall Rule for Virtual Networks

Demystifying Azure Security - Azure SQL Database - Set Server Firewall

Resources - New Azure Log Analytics Language Cheat Sheets

Demystifying Azure Security - Azure SQL Database - Transparent Data Encryption

Demystifying Azure Security - Azure SQL Database - Auditing & Threat Detection

Demystifying Azure Security - Custom RBAC Roles

Demystifying Azure Security - Azure Policies - Initiative Definitions

Fixing the error - The subscription is not registered to use provider

Demystifying Azure Security - Creating a Custom Policy - Part 3 - Defining your Custom Policy

Demystifying Azure Security - Just In Time VM access

Troubleshooting Azure Site Recovery (ASR) - Data Replication Initiation Issues - Part 2

Demystifying Azure Security - Creating a Custom Policy - Part 2 - Understanding the Policy Structure

Demystifying Azure Security - Creating a Custom Policy - Part 1 - Viewing Definition of an existing Policy

Demystifying Azure Security - Azure Policies - 2 - Assigning a Policy

Demystifying Azure Security - RBAC Roles

Demystifying Azure Security - Azure Policies - 1 - Basics

Great Way to learn - 2018 Microsoft Azure Community Study Groups

Introducing the Harvesting Clouds YouTube channel

Video - Azure Automation - Introduction

Introducing Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs)

Why you should be using Azure Managed Disks now?

Azure Cloud Shell - Embedding Cloud Shell in your Websites

Azure Cloud Shell - Introduction

Script Sample - Generate Azure Resources Report by Tags

Azure Application Insights is now generally available

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) - New feature added to target Resource Groups

Troubleshooting Azure Site Recovery (ASR) - Data Replication Not Working

General Availability - Azure Active Directory (AD) Domain Services

Suspending and Resuming Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Replication on a single or multiple servers

Step by Step ARM Templates - Creating ASR Template from an existing Azure Infrastructure and Modifying It

Step by Step Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates - Index

Step by Step ARM Templates - Providing PowerShell Scripts to Run after VM deployment via ARM Template

Step by Step ARM Templates - Using Key Vault to Securely Provide Information in ARM Templates

Step by Step ARM Templates - Visualizing ARM Templates and Generating Diagrams

Step by Step ARM Templates - Deploying a Windows VM with OMS integration

Azure Automation Preview Solution - Start/Stop VMs during off-hours

Azure RemoteApp is going away. New Purchases in portal are now stopped

Step by Step ARM Templates - Iterating and creating multiple instances of a resource

Step by Step ARM Templates - Deploying ARM Templates using Visual Studio

Step by Step ARM Templates - Authoring ARM Templates using Visual Studio

Step by Step ARM Templates - Creating Parameters file for an ARM Template

Step by Step ARM Templates - Deploying Template Using Azure PowerShell

Step by Step ARM Templates - Deploying Template Using Azure Portal

Step by Step ARM Templates - Building your first ARM Template

Step by Step ARM Templates - Helper Functions

Step by Step ARM Templates - What is in an ARM Template - Understanding Components 5 - Outputs

Step by Step ARM Templates - What is in an ARM Template - Understanding Components 4 - Resources

Step by Step ARM Templates - What is in an ARM Template - Understanding Components 3 - Variables

Step by Step ARM Templates - What is in an ARM Template - Understanding Components 2 - Parameters

Step by Step ARM Templates - What is in an ARM Template - Understanding All Components

Step by Step ARM Templates - JSON 101 for IT Administrators

ASR Setup for VMs running in VMWare without VMware level User Access

Uploading and Downloading files securely from Azure Storage Blob via PowerShell

Azure comes to Canada (along with Office 365)

NEW Feature - Azure Cool Blob Storage

Taking Automatic Remediation Action on Azure VM Alert Generation

ROADMAP - Solutions to help with Migration from Azure ASM to ARM portal

Migrating from Azure ASM to ARM portal

PowerShell DSC - Partial Configurations

Azure Container Service hits General Availability

Azure Authentication - Authenticating any Azure API Request in your Application

Run Azure Automation Runbooks via PowerShell ISE

Various Options Added to Buy Microsoft Azure Active Directory Basic

Multiple Values In Grid.Mvc Single Column Filter via Checkboxes with Code Sample

Getting Started - Azure Site Recovery (ASR) In New Azure Portal

Coming Soon - Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Introducing Harvesting Clouds