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Azure – You can now export your resources with Terraform (preview)

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As you know, you have been able to export your Azure deployment(s) or resource(s) into ARM templates using the Export template option. Well, good news as now you can also use Terraform export First thing first, you need to register the Microsoft.AzureTerraform provider either from the Azure portal, Azure Cli or PowerShell; you can also

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Windows – You can now use Windows Server 2025 in Pay As You Go

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As you know, when installing Windows operating systems (client or server) you need a valid product key to enable to corresponding Windows Edition, also known as perpetual licensing. For Windows Server, the editions covered by such product key are either Standard or Datacenter. Well, that was true until Windows Server 2025 was released, as now

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Azure – Get ready for Basic SKU retirement for public IP

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As announced quite some time ago, Microsoft is retiring the public IP address Basic SKU on March 2025. To prepare for this retirement, you need to upgrade any Basic public IP to the Standard SKU (see Public IP addresses in Azure – Azure Virtual Network | Microsoft Learn for SKU comparison). To help you identify

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Azure – Live data disk resize available for virtual machine

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When you deploy a new virtual machine, you can define the virtual disks size. From time to time, your initial disk sizing may be too short and you need to increase the disk size to provide more storage space. Until now, before being able to resize the disk you had to shutdown the virtual machine.

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Azure Virtual Desktop – Transitioning from remote desktop client to Windows App

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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop, you already know that there are multiple options to connect to your virtual desktop host: Azure Virtual Desktop client Azure Virtual Desktop (preview) application from Microsoft Store Web browser (Remote Desktop Web Client (microsoft.com)) and more recently (since November 2023) the Windows App (see Azure Virtual Desktop – A

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Azure – You can now use dashboard on Azure mobile application

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If you are using Microsoft Azure to host and run some workloads on cloud services, you know that you can create and use dashboards when accessing the Azure portal. Well, good news as you can now do the same when using the Azure mobile application (available at the bottom of the Azure mobile app home

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Azure – Deploy Azure Bastion as private (preview)

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By now I hope you know about Azure Bastion, the Azure solution allowing you to connect to your Azure virtual machine though the web browser rather than opening management ports or deploying a jump box virtual machine. Lately, Microsoft has introduced a free version of Azure Bastion (Bastion Developer – see Azure – New low

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Azure – You can now use ephemeral Cloud Shell

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If you use Microsoft Azure cloud services, you probably are already aware about the Cloud Shell functionality which allows you to run PowerShell or Bash scripts/commands directly from the web browser. This functionality requires to setup a storage account to store your scripts and user sessions. Well good news as now you can also use

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Azure – Windows 11 23H2 virtual machine requires a subscription with no spending limit

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As you know, we running workloads in the cloud cost management is an important part of your governance. In Azure, you have multiple ways to manage your spending (running) cost; one of them is setting up a spending limit at your subscription level (such as with developer subscription [aka Visual Studio subscription]). Well, if you

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