If you are working with ARM templates to deploy Azure resources, this one is going to interest you as it is going to allow Fyou to visualize all dependencies related to your template. To be able to visualize the dependencies of the resource you are going to deploy in Azure, you need to connect to
Azure – You can now visualize your Azure resources when exporting as a template Read More »
Few years back, Microsoft has introduced a solution allowing Azure Joined device to use on-premises print services, named Hybrid Cloud Print. This solution requires an on-premises print services infrastructure, but what about customer with no more on-premises footprint? Well, good new, a new service called Universal Print is now available for cloud only customers (or
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As you know you can manage your Azure resources with different tools, PowerShell, Azure Cli, web browser or event the Azure Portal application. Well, when you use the Azure portal with your browser, you can now customized resource list view (when you add/remove or re order the columns/fields). NOTE 1 this is not available (yet?)
Azure – You can now save your own resource list view in the portal Read More »
By now, you may already know that Azure Security Center (ASC) is your one-stop shop to improve your security posture in Azure. ASC comes with different pricing, including one free but limited one. Well good news, Identity Recommendations – which were limited to paid tiers previously – are now also included with the free tier.
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As you know you can create dynamic group membership in Azure Active Directory to automatically add/remove group members (either users or devices) based on rules. Sometime you may not be totally sure about the result and it is frustrating to have to wait before being able to validate it. Well, good news, you can now
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You may already know this Azure AD feature, in preview for quite some time already, called Administrative Units (AUs). This feature allows you to create a container to store Azure resources which then can be used to delegate administrative tasks, during this preview period this can contain only users and groups and is only manageable
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As you know with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets you can create and group identical virtual machines to deliver load balanced and highly available service; the number of virtual machine instances is automatically increased or decreased to match the demand. You may also know that the operating system of each virtual machine part of a
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As you may already know, it was possible to restore a virtual machine by creating a new VM, restoring as disk or replacing existing disks. Now the option to recover the virtual machine by replacing existing disks is now also supported for virtual machine created using custom images (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/capture-image-resource) This option is only available for
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By now you should already know Azure Storage Explore, client application allowing you access your storage in Azure from Windows, MacOS or Linux devices (download link https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/). Well, Azure Explorer has got an interesting improvement which allows you to use the device code flow sign-in to connect to your Azure tenant and access your storage
Azure – You can now use device code flow sign-in to logon with Azure Explorer Read More »
As you may already know, you can create a snapshot of a virtual machine running on Azure when using managed disks. While this is a useful capability, there was a limitation; when creating a snapshot you were creating a full snapshot, meaning the full disk was snapshotted, involving an increase in your storage cost. Well,
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