It has been a long awaited feature for dashboards on Azure portal: getting the dashboard to auto refresh. Well, good news, the auto refresh capability for dashboard is now available in Azure portal. To start enabling this auto refresh feature, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com), select the dashboard you want to use and check […]
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As you may already know, you can use your Azure Storage Account as a ‘cloud’ file share. That said, there has been few limitations, especially in term of storage capability for file share (up to 5 Tb capacity for example with a standard/general purpose storage account; premium storage account already supports larger capacity). Well, good
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The Azure mobile application (iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/microsoft-azure/id1219013620 – Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.azure) has been updated and now simplifies management operations when you have multiple subscriptions. Previously, you had to switch between the subscription in your tenant to access the Azure resources in this subscription (as shown below) Now, you can enable the Multiple subscriptions mode (in preview) and
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As you know, Azure has a feature called Azure Advisor to help you getting the most and securing your Azure resources. Well, Azure Advisor has been updated to provide you a notification feature to send an email alert as soon as you have a new recommendation. To start using it, logon to your Azure portal
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As you may know Azure provides a quite powerful monitoring solution for your Azure environment as well your on-premises one called Azure Log Analytics. This Log Analytics capability is also used by Azure Security Center to centralize security-related logs. The use of Azure Log Analytics requires to have a local agent (Log Analytics Agent, also
As you may already know, you can synchronize your on-premises file shares to Azure File Share using Azure File Sync. While changes made on your on-premises side are quickly synchronized to Azure File Share, this is not the same story when changes are made from Azure File Share; you have to wait the 24 hours
As you know, Microsoft Azure provides you the ability to host SQL resources, from SQL database to Elastic Pools or SQL running on a virtual machine (not comprehensive). This makes it a little bit difficult to have a comprehensive view of all the Azure SQL resources you may be running as you have to switch
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As you know, Azure integrates a security dashboard, called Azure Security Center (ASC), to help you have a bird view on the security state of your Azure (but not only as it also provides details from your on-premises) environment. The Azure Security Center has been updated to provide a ‘one click’ remediation (when available) when
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Not sure since when it has been added but if you have installed the Azure mobile application (Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.azure&hl=en or iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-azure/id1219013620) you can now start and use Azure Cloud Shell (also available using a web browser at https://shell.azure.com/) To start using Cloud Shell from your Azure mobile app, just hit the Cloud Shell button
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As you may already know, you were (still are) able to gather all Azure Datacenter IP ranges using XML if you had to manage firewall authorization to Azure services using an XML file (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41653) Well, this service (the XML file) is being deprecated and removed by June 30, 2020. Instead you now have to use
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