Microsoft Azure

Aidan Finn shows you how to enforce or audit governance to Azure subscriptions or resource groups using Azure Policy.

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Server 2019 release improves its support for hybrid cloud scenarios.

Aidan Finn shows you how to use a new preview feature in Azure Backup to protect SQL Server databases that are hosted in Azure virtual machines.

Microsoft recently made Azure Policy generally available. This post will explain the role of Azure Policy and how you can use it to audit for or enforce governance.

Aidan Finn explains several ways that you can use Traffic Manager, Azure’s website redirection solution, that enables high availability, fault tolerance, and more between different application deployments.

Let’s discuss the Auto-Shutdown settings in the properties of an Azure virtual machine, how to configure them, and whether you should use this feature or not.

I predicted that the Build conference would give us lots of Azure news. In one respect, I was right; there was lots of news.

There are four kinds of storage account in Azure and it can be hard to decide on which one to use.

Aidan Finn explains how the new process for logging into Windows Server and Linux virtual machines works in the Azure Portal.

Aidan Finn discusses what Azure Active Directory Authentication for Azure Linux virtual machines is, how to configure it, and how to login.

Aidan Finn shows you how you can quickly deploy an Azure virtual machine for evaluation purposes.

Aidan Finn explains how you can replace the OS disk of an Azure virtual machine with managed disks without touching the data disks.

Because traveling is the worst, this week’s edition of Short Takes examines Microsoft Build 2018, Microsoft product demotions, Google I/O 2108, and much, much more.