It’s not really called ‘Azure Front Door Vanilla’ but as of last week there are now three versions of Azure Front Door (AFD) available. Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door Standard (Preview), Azure Front Door Premium (Preview). Azure Front Door has been around since its own public preview in Sept…
Leave a CommentIf you are starting out in Azure then the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam is the place to start and if you register for Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals through Microsoft Events you will receive a free exam voucher.
1 CommentWednesday, March 18, 2020, 09:00 AM – 03:30 PM (PDT) Just in case you have missed the announcement, tonight (or this afternoon depending on your time zone) is the free Open Source Virtual Summit by Microsoft Azure. Key highlights of the event: Keynote by GitHub VP: Find out what it takes to…
Leave a CommentI recently looked at the Azure Backup Explorer public preview and this week Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Backup Reports. Backup Reports uses Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Workbooks, and serves as a the destination for tracking usage, auditing of backups and restores. The previous PowerBI reporting is…
Leave a CommentA small puzzle for the end of last week with an Azure web app running PHP. The default upload_max_filesize for PHP on Azure Web Apps is 8,192KB and there was a need to increase it. I’ve done this 100s of times with PHP running on Apache – but wasn’t sure…
Leave a CommentAt the recent Microsoft Ignite The Tour Johannesburg, I was introduced to MVP Nicolas Blank. During the conference we had several conversations regarding content creation with regards to blogging and his podcast; the fear of pressing publish; and imposter syndrome. During these conversations, we discussed the pace that IT is…
Leave a CommentFollowing on from A Quick Look at Azure Just-in-Time Virtual Machine Access and subsequently looking at Implementing Just-in-time in Azure Security Center, I promised to look at implementing JIT directly from the VM page Remember that JIT is only available with Security Center Standard Tier. You can compare the Free…
Leave a CommentFollowing on from A Quick Look at Azure Just-in-Time Virtual Machine Access (JIT), I promised to cover the implementation of JIT. In this post, I will focus on configuring JIT access within the Azure Security Center. Remember that JIT is only available with Security Center Standard Tier. You can compare…
Leave a CommentYesterday Microsoft announced the public preview of Backup Explorer. Backing up VMs in a Recovery Services Vaults (RSV) is relatively easy to set up, but once you have several different vaults running across different regions, tenants or subscriptions it can become unwieldy to monitor. Backup Explorer provides a dashboard that…
1 CommentIf you are running servers in Azure, and especially if they have a public IP address, you will want to lock down incoming traffic to these VMs as much as possible. In particular, ports used for remote administration as they are a common target for hackers. As well as standard…
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