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A topic that seems to come up over and over again recently, is Microsoft Azure Backup. The customers I work with are very interested in it, primarily because of prices, and they’ve heard from Microsoft sales people that it’s “just €0,0203 per GB!”. Who can resist that?
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I just saw Aidan Finn posted his thoughts about buying Azure through Cloud Solution Providers (CSP), and wanted to share my 5 cents on this topic, since I was planning a post about it anyways. While I agree with Aidan most of the time and admire his work, I’m
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It’s been a busy few months since I started this series, but here is the next part finally! It’s about Tags, and how to use them for billing etc. Other parts: * Taking control of your Azure resources with RBAC, Policies, Tags and Locks * Taking control of your Azure
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The other day I wrote about the features Azure Resource Manager provides to let you take control of the resources you deploy. Today I will dive into the first of these features: Policies Policies lets you manage how and which resources are created, by denying creation of resources that doesn’
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If you are doing Azure, you probably also want the same, or better, control with your resources as you have on premise. Azure Resource Manager has some great capabilities to do this, which I will walk through in this post. In the coming week I will go into more details
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A lot of people are already using Azure AD, either for Office 365 or some other applications – maybe even 3rd party application like Salesforce, ServiceNow etc. You could also be using it for Windows 10 workplace or domain join and automatic MDM enrollment. The possibilities of Azure AD is… not
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I recently got myself a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite at home, and of course the first thing to do is establish an Azure VPN 🙂 Since the EdgeRouter does not support route based VPN’s the configuration will be based on Policy Based Azure VPN, also known as static routing. You can
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I recently blogged about deploying Azure VPN gateways with Azure Resource Manager templates. After that post, I’ve been asked if it’s only possible through templates, and no, that is not the only way to do it. You can also use PowerShell In this post, I’ll guide you
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Lots of companies have an Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) where they buy large chunks of Azure-dollars, and in return get some kind of discount. I won’t go into details about EA, but here’s a quick introduction: EA will let you create multiple subscriptions connected to your EA account.
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Edit: I wrote a “part 2” where I explain how it’s done with PowerShell, you can find it here: https://cloudpuzzles.net/2015/10/deploying-vpn-gateways-and-connections-using-azure-resource-manager-part-2/ Last week at SCU a bunch of us joined Kristian Nese in his Azure Resource Manager (ARM) session and discussed ARM templates and how
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I finally took the time, and moved my domain to Azure DNS. I have my website hosted in Azure, and I’m also using Office 365, so I had a few records I need to move. Luckily, we have PowerShell 🙂 First we need to understand what we’re working with.
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Until Ignite last week, we’ve been limited to 1 public IP address (also known as Virtual IP or VIP) per cloud service in Microsoft Azure – but that’s no longer the case! Microsoft finally added the possibility to assign multiple VIPs to the same cloud service, which is sometimes