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Free tools for your daily work with Microsoft Azure / Azure Stack
When you are working with Azure or Azure Stack you have to use additional tools to keep your work easy. I would like to present some free tools, I am using at my daily work with Azure and Azure...
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Set up the Azure Usage and Billing Insights Portal for demo purposes
Last week Microsoft announced the availability of the Azure Usage and Billing Insights (AUBI)...
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Start and stop Azure VMs without access to Microsoft Azure
Imagine you want to provide specific users with the ability to start and stop VMs, but you do not want to provide access for them to the Azure portal. Then you can use Azure Automation with...
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Using Veeam FastSCP with Azure VMs and self-signed certificates
When working with Azure VMs you have several options to copy files into your VMs. One tool I really like is Veeam FastSCP, because my Azure VMs are just dev / test machines and are neither part of an...
View ArticleMicrosoft Ignite 2017 Day 1 recap – Azure announcements
Today Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando kicked off. Microsoft announced a ton of new Azure capabilities. Have a look at the following selections of the official Azure blog announcements to get started...
View ArticleMicrosoft Ignite 2017 Day 2 and 3 recap – Azure announcements
During the last two days at Ignite in Orlando, Microsoft announced more new Azure capabilities. Have a look at the following selections of the official Azure blog announcements to get started with the...
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Adding value to your DevTest Labs users with additional Azure services
If you are working with Azure DevTest Labs you already know that all the nice things are built around to provide a test environment for Azure IaaS VMs. So far so good, but what can you do to provide...
View ArticleOptimize your Azure Function PowerShell run duration in the consumption plan
Since PowerShell is available on Azure Functions this is the way to go for automating things in Azure. Especially running the function in the consumption plan and with a managed identity enabled.Per...
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Azure Reservations and the RBAC dilemma
Cloud computing underlies a constant change. Things you take today for granted are different tomorrow. Surprisingly, even designs and implementations on the same platform can be different.Welcome to...
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Identify the max capacity of ephemeral OS disks for Azure VM sizes
Back in 2019 Microsoft introduced the ephemeral OS disk option for Azure VMs and VMSS.-> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-ephemeral-os-disk-now-generally-available/Instead of storing...
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