Good news if you are using both Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host your workloads in cloud services: you can now have both your Azure and AWS cost reporting in the Azure Cost Management blade. You need to know this is free during the preview and then a 1% fee will incur at […]
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A new capability has been added to Azure Cloud Shell, you can now use it to also connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell. To remind you as there are maybe few (lot?) of Exchange administrator who do not know what is Azure Cloud Shell, this is the ability to connect to cloud resources (in this
The virtual machine name is now getting set by the name you define when creating the virtual machine using the portal. This is a simple thing but can simplify a lot the life of IT guys
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An update which is going to make few things easier when working with virtual machine in the Azure portal has been deployed. You can now get the operating system running on the VM directly from the portal. Connect to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and reach out the Virtual Machines blade to select the VM you
You can now connect to your Azure Pipelines from Microsoft Teams. To do so, add the Azure Pipelines application in your Teams by accessing the Teams app catalog and search for Azure Pipelines (or Azure, or Pipelines) – you can also browse the Productivity category Then select the Teams where the Pipelines app will be
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Good new, the long awaited UEFI-based boot support for Azure virtual machine is now available in preview. The UEFI-based boot support was added to on-premises Hyper-V since Windows Server 2012 R2, quite long time ago and since then we have been waiting for this on Azure. The new generation (aka generation 2) of Azure virtual
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As you may know, Azure Active Directory (AAD) is not only used to manage corporate identity and access but you can also rely on Azure AD capabilities to manage your consumer identity when integrated with your applications or web sites. This is Azure AD B2C (Business to Consumer). Well good news, there are quite few
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You can now use the Fast Shutdown capability to turn off virtual machine on Azure. This option is available by using Azure Cli (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest) with the command az vm stop –resource-group MyResourceGroup –name MyVm –skip-shutdown As always you can use either the Azure Cli on your client or use the Azure Cloud Shell
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You can now use Ephemeral OS disk in Azure Virtual Machine (Azure VM) when you are concern on the time taken to deploy at scale or reimage a virtual machine while not concerned with data (aka stateless workloads). The good point with Ephemeral OS disk is there is no storage cost associate with and it
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4 new administration roles have been available (in preview) for Azure Active Directory (AAD) B2C: B2C User Flow Administrator: allows to delegate user flows in Azure AD B2C administration B2C User Flow Attribute Administrator: allows to delegate user attributes in Azure AD B2C administration B2C IEF Keyset Administrator: allows delegation for Azure AD B2C key
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