Microsoft Azure

There’s no doubt that building disaster recovery (DR) plans for your organization can be tough. There are an amazing number of factors that you have to consider, plan for, and purchase.

Ahead of Ignite, a few new Azure features have started to show up.

Aidan shows you how to deploy application security groups to create granular (per-NIC) network security group rules in the Azure Portal.

Microsoft Ignite is coming – and that means there will be lots of cloud news coming out of Microsoft.

Aidan explains how you can easily synchronize folders between multiple file servers via Azure File Sync.

Microsoft has detailed the exact reasons why its data centers went offline earlier this month and why it took longer for some users to recover their data.

In the first part of this series, Russell showed you how to enroll Azure virtual machines to Azure Update Management. In the final part, Russell demonstrates scheduling updates, checking update compliance, and how to enable Update Management on non-Azure VMs.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell shows you how to enroll Azure virtual machines to Azure Update Management and provide a general overview of how the solution works.

Azure SQL Data Sync is useful where data needs to be unidirectionally or bidirectionally synchronized across several Azure SQL Databases or SQL Server databases.

Aidan explains how a lightning strike to one of Microsoft’s data centers in America affected Microsoft cloud customers around the world.