In the rapidly changing world of cloud computing, cost optimization in Azure has become critical for businesses looking to take advantage of cloud technological advantages while controlling costs efficiently. Thankfully, Azure offers a comprehensive range of cost optimization services and tools that are intended to assist businesses in understanding their expenditure, seeing areas for improvement, …
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In today's digital landscape, maintaining high availability and scalability for web applications is paramount. Azure Load Balancer is a crucial component in achieving this goal within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. Let's delve into what Azure Load Balancer is, how it works, and best practices for optimizing its performance. What is Azure Load Balancer? Azure Load …
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In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, efficient access management is crucial for organizations to maintain security and productivity. Azure Active Directory (AD) dynamic groups, now known as Microsoft Entra ID dynamic groups offers a powerful solution to streamline access control by automatically assigning users to groups based on predefined rules. This not only simplifies administrative …
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud solutions, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) has emerged as a powerful tool for remote access and collaboration. However, like any technology, occasional hiccups may occur. This blog post aims to provide a concise guide to troubleshoot common issues and address disconnection challenges in Azure AVD. The following steps underline some …
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In this blog, I have outlined detailed step-by-step guide to implement Azure AD B2C. This service from Azure offers robust identity management for customer-facing applications, facilitating secure user registration and login through preferred social or enterprise accounts. Problem Statement: Companies often struggle with managing user identities and access in customer-facing applications while still providing a …
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Within this blog post, I introduce a solution designed to facilitate the generation of customer feedback through the seamless integration of diverse tools available on the Microsoft Azure platform. The core objective of this approach is to optimize the feedback collection process by eliminating the requirement for supplementary steps, such as initiating phone calls to …
🏴 Introduction: Welcome to the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates! If you're new to cloud computing or looking to streamline your deployment process on Microsoft Azure, ARM templates are a powerful tool worth mastering. In this comprehensive guide, we'll walk through the basics of building your first ARM …
In the labyrinth of data management and data security, Azure AD Connect is a beacon of simplicity and utility. Before diving into the different components of Azure AD Connect, it's essential to understand what it is and its purpose. Azure AD Connect is a tool from Microsoft that allows your On-Premises Active Directory Domain Services …
Scenario: Most of the times when you design the solution or implement or transfer the data from on premises to Azure , One concerns are there is how much bandwidth required or will take etc. ? Hence thought of to explain you about the accelerated networking which will help you to minimize the VMs network …
Azure Interview Q & A Part-1 Writing the Azure Interview question in the blog which will help interviewers to take an interview with real time Azure question and scenarios to find the right resources . It will help candidate to get an prepared those interview Q & A they might not ask by interviewers but …
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It's been query for almost all the customers and others Azure community members, How to control the storage accounts from specific user ID but at that time there is limitation and "Azure AD Authentication for Azure Storage is not available." It's most awaited features and improvements of MS azure team and now it's available for …
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It's been a query for most of customer, how to encrypt data of Azure storage accounts as azure storage is public cloud and not sure if my storage account data been compromised. Even more on this how we can get an audit complain for azure storage accounts data and many more query . Now …
It’s been a while we are conducting the session and thought of to cover the storage session (Deep Drive of Azure Tables and Queue) and Try to covered New Features like Azure storage Endpoints ,Azure AD Integrations, Configure VM MSI etc. We have conducted the 4 session on azure Storage .Which i will be sharing …
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It's been a while we are conducting the session and thought of to cover the storage session (Deep Drive of Blob storage and File Storage )and where we have covered the New feature which is available now in storage accounts and try to explain in such a way that ,It's easy understand even for new …
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It's been a while we are conducting the session and thought of to cover the storage session and where we have covered the New feature which is available now in storage accounts and try to explain in such a way that ,It's easy understand even for new Azure learns. We have conducted the 4 …
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Scenarios to be used for Azure VMs redeploy. Due to Hardware failure from MS team. If you are unable to connect to VMs. Unable to take the RDP. In case of the migrating VMs from one Host to Another Azure Host etc. Before Redeploy Verification Steps. Please make sure you have configured the backup …
I have seen couple of scenarios where customer, Auditors or Management requires to understand the backup report. Generally few below question comes which we have answered as consultant or as team to our customer or Management about backup. How many VMs We have configured the Backup? How Much Storage space using for my Azure Backup? …
In my last blog , I have shared my experience Why and how we have enable the Privileged Identity Management with P2 Azure Active Directory Access . I am help you how we can protect the Azure AD identity and how we can find the the vulnerability and close , As this is very sensitive area …
I am just going through the portal and found the Access review services in Azure portal found very useful so thought of create an Blog. How access review services will help an access review of guest users, Application and Organization users, As it's been hard to monitor each and every users/Application and guest users but …
In this Blog, I am sharing my Experience , How i have cleared the 70-533 -Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Exam. As i have been spoken and received an massage from my couple of followers requesting to share the tips and Tricks on how i have passed on 70-735 exam.Hence sharing the thoughts on this. …
Just Thought of to cover the Azure access review in this blogs Because most of the organization looking to provide the secure subscription access to their users and partners and how they archive this task.In current trends most of the organization are using third party tools. In this blogs i am covering the few things …
I have seen couple of scenario where most of the clients and customer really wants to go with SQL (PaaS) services but they are not moving because if an case SQL PaaS services got crashed due to some technical issue there was option to recover the services or fail back the services with limited time frame. …
I have been seen couple of scenarios where most of the organization are looking for Azure SQL Vulnerability tools which will help them analysis the Vulnerability and sent an notification that there is something wrong or we are missing some security checks. Now MS Azure an announce the preview feature which will help us to enable …
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In my previous organization has asked me how can retain the Azure SQL (PasS) services Backup for 10 years and i was searching that option but didn't get . But now that is possible Through Long-term backup retention(Preview) to retain your Azure SQL Database backup for 10 years with the backup vault that option is …
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"In Azure Backup Blogs series i will be writing the blogs for Azure VMs Backup and Pass services Backup , How backup services are help us and what configuring and prerequisite are required for backup." Backups are common terms if you talk about Data Protraction, Compliance etc. Backup are really important part of the services …
In this Blogs i will shearing my experience how to create the Azure SQL Serves and SQL Database , I have seen couple of scenarios where azure learners has dought between On-premises SQL Servers and Azure SQL Server (Pass) and so thought of create blogs to clear the understanding on this and show then how …
In my azure journey i have seen couple of incidents where VMs get cashed and we need to recover the Azure VMs from the backup vault. MS Azure has enabled the feature that you can restore the VMs backup from the VMs no need to go to site recovery and search for the VMs , …
In this training videos I have shared my real time experience on enabling the azure Inventory , change tracking and update management . Which will help us to manage the azure VMs as quickly as i can and shown how the Azure VMS DR can build. I have seen couple of scenario where various group …
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In this Training video i have over the Azure VMs overview and details information about the azure VMs . Azure VMs Configuration Overview : Which will help to understand the azure VMs instance size, location, Private IP, Public IP address and graphical Dashboard of the host utilization of CPU, memory , Disk read/write etc. …
Azure Subscription and Azure VMs Concept of Azure Subscription Virtual Machine Introduction ,Availability and scalability . Azure Resource Group Vs Azure Resource Manager IaaS and Azure Virtual Machine Presenter : Niraj Kumar Speaker: Lalit Rawat https://youtu.be/MakuoDBg_sc Join the Azure-talk Group: https://www.kloudezy.com/AzureTalkGroup.html Azure Training Part-3
"I have seen that most of azure learners still requires to understand the basic concept of the azure services and how they can implement the services and I have received request that azure learners need a session for beginners, Hence i thought to started the azure for beginners series online and providing the free training …
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Azure Storage GSv2 Part-1 Storage Account GSv2 Configuration Sign in to the Azure portal. Please provide your credentials. On the Hub menu Click on search then search storage ->select Storage -> Storage account. Provide the Storage Name Deployment Model Account Kind: General Purpose V2 Locally redundant storage (LRS) Geo-redundant storage (GRS) Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS) …
Azure Storage account options General Purpose v2 (GPv2) : Storage accounts provide all the latest features, and supports Blobs, Files, Queues, and Tables. These latest features include blob-level tiering, archive storage, higher scale account limits, and storage events. Storage pricing has been designed to deliver the lowest GB prices, and industry competitive transaction prices.Blob Storage Storage …
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Hi All,
This is a fast post about something I’m encountering when trying to understand the data disks performance in Azure virtual machines.
If you read the official TechNet article where the different Azure virtual machines series are exposed and their configuration detailed, maybe (like me) you will be confused about the data disks performances between the (A-Series, D-Series and G-Series) vs (DS-Series).
In the A-Series, D-Series and G-series virtual machines, the data disks performances are described using the metric: Max IOPS
In the DS-Series virtual machines, the data disks performances are described using the metric: Max. disk IOPS and bandwidth
The questions that I was asking myself are:
And here, I will answer based on information I got:
What this IOPS means…
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Reference Taken form the Microsoft EDX and Referred Microsoft EDX courses Please go and register in Microsoft EDX Site . Please Sign UP in the Microsoft EDX Site https://www.edx.org/school/microsoft Azure Infra +Azure Developers + Azure Architect Beginners Coursers: Introduction to Microsoft Azure IT Support: Cloud Fundamentals Microsoft Azure Storage Microsoft Azure Virtual Networks Microsoft Azure Virtual …
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Retiring Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services from the classic portal Starting November 15, 2017, both Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services will be available only in the Azure portal. Access from the classic portal will no longer be supported. If you were using the classic portal for OS images, please use PowerShell instead. For details on …
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What is the advantage to move to cloud? Flexibility : We can restructure of our Environment is needed and you can create the an number of services based on our requirements. Pay As you GO : PAY as you go option is good , Only pay for the services you used in a months or …
Troubleshoot Remote Desktop connections to an Azure virtual machine Reset Remote Desktop configuration & Password . Check Network Security Group rules / Cloud Services endpoints. Review VM console logs. Reset the NIC for the VM. Check the VM Resource Health. Reset your VM password. Restart your VM. Redeploy your VM. Troubleshoot Azure Vms: Scenario-1 : …
Why we assign static IP/Private address in Vms/Services ? Application requirements – Web applications, SQL database, Domain servers etc need to connect with fixed IP/Static IP address. if it’s a Web application/SQL database VM then it’s important to have static IP address so Web application/SQL Database settings always can refer the same ip address and there …
Why we assign static IP/Private address in Vms/Services ? Application requirements – Web applications, SQL database, Domain servers etc need to connect with fixed IP/Static IP address. if it’s a Web application/SQL database VM then it’s important to have static IP address so Web application/SQL Database settings always can refer the same ip address and there …
RRAS Server setup and Configuration for Site to Site connection Please connect RAAS server you want to configure the Site to site VPN connection using the RAAS Prerequisite: Please go to the Ethernet card or NiC card network properties. Unchecke all the settings except for TCP/IPv4 protocol. Go to the properties of TCP/IPv4 and …
What is Site to Site VPN Site-to-site VPN is a type of VPN connection that is created between on your azure and On-premises locations. It provides the ability to connect geographically separate locations or networks & usually over the public Internet connection or a WAN connection. A Site-to-Site VPN gateway connection is used to connect your on-premises network …
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What Azure Virtual Networks ? Azure Virtual Networks is secure way to connect Azure resources & each other with virtual networks (VNets).A VNet is a represent of your own network in the cloud. VNet is a logical isolation of the Azure cloud dedicated to your subscription. We can also connect VNet to our on-premises network. …
DNS records Record names Azure DNS are specified by using the relative names and fully qualified domain name (FQDN) includes the zone name. Note:- Relative record name 'www' in the zone 'Rcloud.com' than the fully qualified record name would be 'www.Rcloud.com'. Record types Every DNS record has a name & type. DNS Records are organized …
Storage account are covered below sub storage accounts where your data will store and data will be segregated in storage account as per your services accordingly. Blob Storage: Blob storage stores unstructured object data.A blob can be any type of text or binary data, such as a document, media file, or application installer.Blob storage is also …
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How to Create Storage account 1: Sign in to the Azure portal. 2: On the Hub menu Click on search then search storage ->select Storage -> Storage account. 3: Enter a name of your storage account as per your organization standard Name. 4: Specify the deployment model to be used: Resource Manager or Classic. Resource …
Azure Storage Account Azure storage account is Cloud based azure storage solution , Where you can store your .VHD's,Data,Tables,queues etc files. Azure storage provides the following four services to store the different types of Data within the Azure Platform. Blob storage: Blob Storage stores unstructured object data.A blob can be any type of text or …
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