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  • Azure local

    Microsoft Azure Local: New Azure Stack HCI Replacement!

    Lots of news coming out of Microsoft Ignite 2024. Microsoft has announced a new offering, Azure Local which is a new solution that is taking the place of Azure Stack HCI. It will continue the functionality of allowing organizations to…

  • Azure ArcBox Full edition

    Jumpstart ArcBox for Azure Arc Lab and Demo

    Most organizations today are deploying cloud resources, including in Microsoft Azure. However, for many organizations, a fully cloud-native environment is simply not possible due to compliance or other reasons. A hybrid approach is an approach most businesses are taking. Consolidating…

  • Creating an Azure Bastion host subnet

    How to Access Azure VM from outside

    When it comes to architecting cloud IaaS environments, one of the issues that always comes to the forefront after standing up infrastructure is access. How do engineers, developers, contractors, and others access environments from the outside? The first tendency of…

  • Choosing setup for an organization

    Join Windows 10 Azure AD step-by-step

    Today, organizations have evolved beyond using the simple on-premises infrastructure of traditional days. The traditional Active Directory domain that exists on-premises providing identity and access management services to all endpoints is no longer practical. Modern businesses are leveraging solutions in…

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    Azure Hybrid Connection Configuration with Windows Admin Center

    There is no question that you are most likely making use of the public cloud in some way, shape, or form these days. For most, there will be no full migration to public cloud environments, only migrations of selected services…

  • Sync-On-Premises-AD-with-Azure-AD-using-Azure-AD-Connect

    Sync On-Premises AD with Azure AD using Azure AD Connect

    Microsoft has had an evolution of tools over the past few years that allows syncing on-premises Active Directory users with their Azure AD cloud directory service. This has include the legacy Forefront Identity Management product, DirSync, and others. Now, the…

  • What-is-Azure-Arc-Management-and-Governance

    What is Azure Arc Management and Governance?

    One of the major announcements coming from Microsoft’s Ignite conference was the introduction of Azure Arc. This announcement is especially interesting to those that are looking to consolidate management, governance, and security of their Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes workloads across…

  • Azure-VM-Security-Best-Practices

    Azure VM Security Best Practices

    As you migrate your workloads to a Microsoft IaaS environment, you will want to give due attention to your security posture in Microsoft Azure. There are many considerations you will want to make when looking at your Azure VM security…

  • Azure-Stack-HCI-Deployment-with-New-Cluster-Creation-Extension

    Azure Stack HCI Deployment with New Cluster Creation Extension

    Microsoft is certainly serious about Windows Admin Center. With Windows Admin Center 1910, there have been many great new features introduced as part of the newest version of the WAC tool. Part of what Microsoft is trying to achieve with…

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    Configure Azure Site Recovery Configuration Server for VMware Replication

    In the previous post, we took a look at how to Replicate On-Premises VMware VMs to Azure with Azure Site Recovery. Azure Site Recovery provides a powerful way to interact with your VMware environment and replicate virtual machines to the…