Cloud Computing

Aidan shows how you can speed up and automate the deployment of Azure RemoteApp, Microsoft’s managed Remote Desktop Services farm in the cloud, using PowerShell. He also shares how you can use PowerShell to publish applications in the app collection and assign users access to those applications.

Because in Paris *personne ne peut vous entendre crier*, this edition of Short Takes focuses on some important questions about Microsoft’s earnings and lack of transparency, the relative success of Surface Hub, Intel vs. Qualcomm, Eric Snowden’s new product offering, and more.

Russell provides a closer look at the recently released Azure Usage and Billing Portal.

Microsoft recently announced improvements to the storage options in the Azure Site Recovery (ASR) disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) solution in Azure. This post describes support for premium storage, encrypted storage, and support for locally redundant storage (LRS) accounts.

Russell demonstrates how to create and attach a new disk to an existing virtual machine in Azure.

Aidan provides an overview of Microsoft’s cloud-based security solutions: Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA), Microsoft Cloud App Security, Azure Rights Management Services (RMS), Azure Information Protection, Microsoft Online Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), and Azure Security Center (ASC).

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter: net income of $3.1 billion on revenues of $22.6 billion. For the full year, the software giant earned a net income of $16.8 billion on revenues of $85.3 billion.

Review Aiden’s steps in this article to verify that you are ready to start an Azure deployment using the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP). Currently, Azure V2 lacks features some companies consider critical.

Russell explains that Azure Automation Desired State Configuration (DSC) is comprised of Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC.

Aidan shows how to recover a virtual machine using the Azure Portal from a back up of your Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or CSP virtual machine.