Solving Traffic Challenges with Azure Load Balancers: A Comprehensive Guide

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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Unlocking Efficiency with Entra ID/ Azure AD Dynamic Groups: Streamlining Access Management

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 …

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Streamlining Azure AVD Troubleshooting and Disconnection Issues 

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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Simplifying Customer Identity Management using Azure AD B2C 

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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Using OpenAI to Generate Customer Feedback

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 …

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🏗️Demystifying Azure ARM Templates: A Beginner’s Guide to Building Your First Template

🏴󠁡󠁴󠀱󠁿 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 …

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Exploring Azure AD Connect: Essential Components, Configuration, and Deployment Methods 

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 …

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Setting up User and Infra Insights – Azure Application Insights

The customer has developed a critical web application that serves as the backbone of our business operations. We seek comprehensive insights into user interactions and infrastructure performance to ensure the application’s reliability, availability, and optimal user experience. To achieve this, we need to set up User and Infrastructure Insights in Azure Application Insights effectively. So, …

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Know- Azure Storage Account Capacity

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Securing Azure Environments Using: -Azure Security Center

It's been always a question , As we are moving to azure cloud environments and Infra & other stuff is manage by MS azure team then how to apply the control & understand the security prospect. Hence azure security center will help you to monitor and give compliance level in border way to not even …

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Azure Cost management

Azure Cost Management & Billing

Azure Cost management & billing Services help you to understand you subscription consumption based on your utilization per region, resources, services & utilization . Even it will help you to setup an alert if you are bill reaching out to your Subscription budget. Azure cost management has been by default enables and that feature is …

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Azure VMs with Accelerated Networking

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 …

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Azure Interview Question -Part-2-TOP-51

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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AD Authentication for Azure Storage(Public Preview)

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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Azure Storage Encryption

  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 …

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Azure Storage:Azure AD Integration,Storage endpoints and Soft delete.

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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Azure Storage Accounts: Blob Storage and File Storage

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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Azure for Beginners Series :Azure Storage Accounts-

  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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Azure VMs: Run Command

#microsoft #Azure #AzureCommunity #Rcloudweb #MicrosoftMVP #MVPbuzz #Azure #AzureStack #Cloud #HybridCloud I am Happy and surprised to see , Microsoft commitments towards improvements of the services are quite amazing, I am using MS Azure services since when it is classic model (ASM) and it's has very limited feature but when MS has started his "Resource Manager …

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Azure VMs Redeploy

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 …

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Azure Backup Reports

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? …

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AzureTalk Beginners Series-“Azure Storage Account”

It's great Opportunities to have Beginners series session in AzureTalk Platform , Where we will share the Azure Knowledge with 2800 Members which includes Architects , MVP, Azure Solution Specialist and various Industry Leaders etc. Today's I have Talked About Azure Storage Accounts and  How MS Azure storage accounts are beneficial and used for all the …

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SharePoint Document Library Challenges: Item Thresholds + Limits

Author/Written By :Rahul Kadamb From - NucleusTechnologies ""Got an opportunities to publish a blog one of my Friends Rahul Kadamb For this documents will  you to on SharePoint .   Introduction - If you are the SharePoint user you must have encountered the issue of threshold limit of 5000 which people apparently presume its mean …

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Azure AD Identity Protection

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 …

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Azure Access Review

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 …

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70-533 Exam Preparation Tips and Tricks

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. …

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Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

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 …

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Azure SQL(PaaS): Geo-Replication (DR)

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. …

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Security Center: Azure SQL Vulnerability Assessment (Preview)

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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(10 Years):Azure SQL Database Long-term backup retention(Preview)

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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Azure Backups for VMs (IAAS)

"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 …

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Azure SQL DBs Creation(Pass)

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 …

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Azure VMs Restoration

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 , …

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Azure Training: Azure VMs Operation Feature (Preview)

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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Azure Training# Azure VMs

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.   …

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Azure Training# Azure Subscription and Azure VMs

  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

Azure Training:Introduction to Microsoft Azure

"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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Storage Account GSv2 Configuration

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) …

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Features of Storage Accounts:General Purpose GPv2 ,GPV1 and Blob Storage

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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Azure Virtual Machines : Storage IOPS and Throughput

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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:

  1. What this IOPS means, how much data per IOPS ?
  2. Why there is an additional bandwidth metric in the DS  Series ?

And here, I will answer based on information I got:

  What this IOPS means…

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All in One:Azure Learning for Azure Infra +Azure Developers + Azure Architect

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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Setup and Configuration of File sync Server

File Sync Server part-1 File Sync Server Prerequisite Create an Storage Account Create the File Server (Creation of Azure File Server ) On-premises Machine with 2012 R2 or 2016R2 with Latest Powershall (5.1) Get-Module PowerShellGet -list | Select-Object Name,Version,Path # Install the Azure Resource Manager modules from the PowerShell Gallery Install-Module AzureRM -AllowClobber 4: Name, …

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Azure File Sync Server Overview

  What is Azure File Sync? Azure File sync server help us to manger the file server centralized without downtime. It will sync the files to azure and manage your Files cache to on-premises/Azure to provide the access or share across the Globe. As per Microsoft : Azure File Sync (preview) allows us to centralize …

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Retiring Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services from the classic portal

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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Setup and Configure Azure Billing: CloudYN

What is Cloudyn-Azure cost Management? Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn allows you to track cloud usage and expenditures for your Azure resources and other cloud providers including AWS and Google. Easy-to-understand & Customized  dashboard reports. Which will help with cost allocation and showbacks/chargebacks . Cost Management helps optimize your cloud spending by identifying underutilized resources …

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Setup and configure:Azure Billing, Subscription management, RBAC, EA Subscription and CloudYN

How to register new cost management tool CLOUDCYN and dashboard showcase. Azure subscription basic management on resources level like resource provider control registration/unregister,Quota- compute, storage etc... , Policies management. RBAC, Directory management and subscription profile management, individual Subscription cost understanding. How to sign up for new subscription. Azure subscription management in EA. Managing Azure EA …

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File Server Migration to Azure Using Azcopy Utility

What is AzCopy ? Azcopy is command line utility designed to copy the data from Microsoft azure Blob, Files, Table Storage using the simple command line . Below are the scenario we can use the Azcopy Utility. On-premises File server to Azure File Storage Vise-versa. Between Azure storage Accounts. Between two different subscription Azure storage …

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Configuration of Load Balance in Azure

Azure Load Balancer  Setup and Configuration Once the Azure Load Balancer is create , Then search for Load balancer then select the load balancer. Click on Overview: Overview :  It will show all the Azure Network load balancer like Backed IP address, Health Probs Load Balancing rule, NAT rules Subscription ID  and other Details. Activities …

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