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Continue reading →: Basic SKU of Public IP Addresses to be Retired – What to do & How to do itMicrosoft has announced the deprecation of the Basic SKU for Public IP addresses in Azure, with a retirement date set for September 30, 2025. After this date, Basic-tier Public IPs will no longer function, necessitating a move to Standard-tier Public IPs to maintain uninterrupted service.
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Continue reading →: The 12 Free Resources for Christmas – Azure Projects for the HolidaysWith many of us taking time off work over the holiday season, it’s a great time to have a play around with Azure and get your stockings dirty. What’s better is you can do this completely free if you know where to look. In this post I’ll list out 12…
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Continue reading →: Azure Key Vaults Made Safer: How to Enable Soft-Delete and Purge ProtectionAzure Key Vaults are a critical service for securely storing and managing sensitive information like secrets, keys, and certificates. However, ensuring these assets remain protected against accidental or malicious deletion is equally important. That’s where Soft-Delete and Purge Protection come into play.
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Continue reading →: Simplify Your Entra ID Governance with Azure Group ExpirationIn this post, I will walk through exactly what Group Expiration is, how to use it and why you may want to make use of it.
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Continue reading →: Reviewing Azure DevOps Service Connections using PowerShellService Connections in Azure DevOps provide a crucial link between your environment and external services such as Azure. But as with most things, they tend to build up over time, which can lead to you having an over-exposed Azure tenant and potential pathways to abuse which you may not be…
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Continue reading →: How to Configure an Azure Storage Account with an Application Gateway and Custom DomainIn this post, I’ll walk through the process of configuring an Azure Storage Account with an Application Gateway in front of it, all encrypted end-to-end. I’ll use the in-preview Basic tier to reduce costs to around £17, rather than the £142 that the Standard V2 would cost per month.
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Continue reading →: Mastering Azure Cost Management: Cost Analysis, Alerts and BudgetsThis post will walk you through Cost Analysis and how to properly analyse the costs across your entire environment, how to set up and monitor Alerts to reduce the manual effort you need to go to each week/month/quarter and how to configure Budgets to ensure you stay ontop of your…
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Continue reading →: Understanding Azure Redundancy Levels: What They Mean and Why You Should Carelet’s cover something that I think most of us have a decent understanding of but that’s always worth being confidently knowledgeable about, data redundancy. Azure offers a range of redundancy options to help you safeguard your data against failures but it’s very easy to overlook such an important setting whilst…
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Continue reading →: Deploying Your First Website (Free) to Azure Using Static Web Apps: A Beginner’s GuideI’ll walk you through the process of deploying a website using Azure Static Web Apps, all the way from setting up a GitHub repository to seeing your website live on the internet. We’ll use an existing sample “Rock Paper Scissors” project to make things easy and to sidestep any issues…
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Continue reading →: How to Reduce your Azure SQL Database CostsAzure SQL Database provide a scalable database solution in the cloud, but with this scalability comes the opportunity for misconfiguration leading to greater than expected costs. In this post, I’ll explore various strategies to reduce your database costs, whilst hopefully also giving you a better understanding of some of the…
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