Microsoft Azure

As you may know, Microsoft has added access to Azure Shell (either PowerShell or Bash) directly from the portal; giving you the possibility to run shell commands directly from the web browser (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2017/09/27/azure-powershell-in-azure-cloud-shell-now-in-preview/) Now, you can have access to the same without logging on to the Azure portal – just go to https://shell.azure.com/ If […]

The general availability of the IT Service Manager Connector (ITSMC) has just been announced. You can now integrate Azure monitoring with your ITSM, like ServiceNow or System Center Service Manager, to automatically generates ticket and notification from your ITSM tool. More details on the pricing available here https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/monitor/ and the documentation to integrate your ITSM

Azure Backup is now being integrated with the virtual machine creation process. This means you can immediately apply a backup policy when creating your virtual machine on Azure. When you create a new virtual machine you will have the ability to define the backup policy; the option will be available when setting up the virtual

Setting up Conditional Access on Azure can be a little bit tricky and may result in loosing access to the resource. Off course you can (and should always) test the configuration before putting into production, but even then this is time consuming. Now, you can evaluate your Conditional Access configuration before testing it with the

This has been announced at the Ignite Conference earlier and in private preview for quite some time now. Today, Azure Migrate is launched in public preview – everybody can try it to migrate on-premises VM’s workloads to Azure VM’s. To start using Azure Migrate to help you identify if a workload can be migrated to

You already know you have access to the Azure Health Dashboard to have a look on all your Azure resource and if there is any incident or advisory. But this is more a reactive situation than pro active. You can now create a service alert to be notified immediately when an incident occurs. To create