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What is Azure Firewall Basic and How to Deploy One

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What is Azure Firewall Basic and How to Deploy One

Azure now has three SKUs for the firewall project: Premium, Standard, and recently GA, Basic.  Azure Firewall Basic offers many of the same features as the Premium and Standard firewall but at a reduced cost.  Azure Firewall Basic is a good option for small and medium businesses or application-specific deployments where internet or East and West traffic needs to be controlled.  In this video, we start with an overview of Azure Firewall Basic and how it differs from Premium and Standard.  Then we examine the requirements to deploy it and move into the Azure portal to deploy it.

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Cut Cost, Improve Security, Reliability, and Performance with Azure Advisor

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This is a quick but important one.  If you are new to Azure or simply looking for ways to manage cost, improve security, reliability, and performance you need to check out Azure Advisor.  Azure Advisor scans Azure environments and compares current configurations to known best practices.  It also identifies ways to save money in Azure.  This video is a quick walkthrough of the Azure Advisor interface meant as an introduction so you can view recommendations in your own environment.  All under 5 minutes.

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10 Things You Need to Know About Azure Availability Zones

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Do you know all there is to know about Azure Availability Zones?  In this video, we go over 10 things to know about Availability Zones including how to use them and some of the limitations with Availability Zones. 

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Avoid these Mistakes with Azure Availability Zones and Availability Sets!

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In this video we review Availability Sets including fault domains and update domains.  Then we look at Availability Zones.  After that we review Azure SLA’s for VMs deployed with Availability Sets and Availability Zones.  Once we understand these concepts, we look at two mistakes to avoid when deploying highly available solutions with Availability Sets and Availability Zones.

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Getting Started with Public Load Balancers in Azure

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Load balancers provide performance and high availability for applications and services.  In this video, we review Azure public load balancers including inbound connectivity from the internet.  We also review how to use the load balancer public IP address or IP prefix to support outbound internet access from the backend hosts.  Then we walk through steps to deploy a public load balancer in Azure.

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Getting Started with Azure Internal Load Balancers

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Load balancers provide performance and high availability for applications and services.  In this video, we review Azure internal load balancers including features of each SKU, or type of load balancer, load balancing algorithm and distribution modes and health probes.  Then we walk through steps to deploy an internal load balancer in Azure.

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What you need to know about Azure Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups

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This video covers what you need to know about Azure Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups.  I started with the idea of a quick video on Network Security groups.  Things snowballed from there, and it ended up being a comprehensive review of Network Security Groups (NSG) and application Security Groups (ASG).  I also added some bonus content on verifying IP flow with Network Watcher.  This video is intended as an introduction to NSG’s.  However, stick around even if you’ve used NSG’s for a while.  There may be some new information here for you.

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SFTP with Azure Storage is now Generally Availability

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Azure Storage SFTP

SSH File Transfer protocol (SFTP), sometimes called Secure FTP, provides the ability to transfer files between autonomous systems.  Azure Storage standard V2 and Premium now supports SFPT access to blob containers.  This video goes over how to enable SFTP on a new storage account, then we add local users and connect with SFTP and the WinSCP client. 

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