In this video, I walk through Azure Perfinsights, a performance reporting and troubleshooting tool for Windows and Linux Virtual Machines.
Active Directory Domain Service, Azure Active Directory and Azure Active Directory Domain Service Explained
Microsoft has a couple of options available for identity and authentication services including Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Active Directory Domain Services. This can lead to confusion, especially considering three of the options have “Active Directory” in the name. It also leads to the question “do we still need domain controllers?” This post reviews these three different options, outlining the functionality and comparing how they work together in Microsoft and Azure.
Continue reading “Active Directory Domain Service, Azure Active Directory and Azure Active Directory Domain Service Explained”Reserved Instances in Azure
Reserved Instances offer significant savings for IaaS Servers, SQL Databases, Cosmos DB and other Azure and third party services. I have mentioned Reserved Instance in a couple other videos and posts. One on Saving money in Azure and once on Azure Cost Management. LINKS. This article and the accompanying video go into details on how Azure Reserved Instances worth.
Video version, including a demo can be found below.
Continue reading “Reserved Instances in Azure”Azure Cost Management and Billing
In this video, I walk through Azure Cost Management and Billing. I give a tutorial on setting up a budget and spending alerts once certain spending thresholds are reached on a subscription. Next, I review and manage past alerts. After that is a walkthrough analyzing subscription spending trends. Lastly, I give an example of Azure Advisor Recommendations on my subscription.
Continue reading “Azure Cost Management and Billing”Azure Bastion Preview Setup Walk Through
In this video, I walk through the prerequisites and setup of the new Azure Bastion Service for IaaS servers. Azure Bastion provides RDP and SSH access to Windows and Linux servers without the need for public IP’s or VPN connections. Access is enabled through the Azure portal with an HTML5 client.
Continue reading “Azure Bastion Preview Setup Walk Through”Azure 101 – Azure Storage Accounts
In this video I go over Azure Storage Accounts. What they are and how to deploy and access one. I start by reviewing the characteristics such as access tiers and different blob types. I then walk through setting one up, create a SAS token for access and use storage explore to upload a blob file.
Continue reading “Azure 101 – Azure Storage Accounts”Flow in Office 365 Vs. Logic Apps in Azure
Microsoft Flow in Office 365 and Logic Apps in Azure are both options for graphically driven process automation. With a graphical interface and a flowchart-like design, Microsoft Flow and Logic Apps make automation about as simple as it can get. These two applications are similar but different in some important ways. This article goes over the difference between the two to help understand the best situation to deploy each.
Continue reading “Flow in Office 365 Vs. Logic Apps in Azure”Synchronize Files to Azure Blob Storage with AZCopy
Version 10 of AZCopy.exe can now delete files at the destination to keep it in complete sync with the source. This video shows how to use the delete-destination option to sync a local file structure to an Azure Storage Account. Used with Soft Delete on Azure Storage, this provides an interesting alternative to traditional backup solutions.
Link to AZCopy V10