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Using Azure Update Manager to manage updates at scale
Saturday, February 08, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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4 minute read
Azure Update Manager is a tool from Microsoft and is developed to automate, installing and documenting Windows updates or updates to Linux server on Azure. This all in a single pane of glass and without installing any additional software. …
10 ways to use tags in Microsoft Azure
Friday, January 10, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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7 minute read
What are Tags in Azure? Tags are a pair of editable values in Microsoft Azure. These are in this pair-convention: Name : Value We can define ourselves what the Name and Value actually are, if we stay within these limits: Name: maximum of 512 …
My Azure Naming Framework
Saturday, January 04, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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3 minute read
My Azure Naming Framework The picture below shows how I name my Azure Resources in my own environment. Creating a good naming strategy from the very beginning is a great way to maintain overview over your resources and instantly know what they do. …
Azure VPN Gateway Maintenance - How to configure
Wednesday, January 01, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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3 minute read
Why configure a maintenance configuration? We would want to configure a maintenance configuration for our VPN gateway to Azure to prevent unwanted updates during business hours. Microsoft doesn’t publish when they perform updates to their …
Azure Stack HCI - Host your Virtual Desktops locally
Thursday, October 03, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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13 minute read
Introduction to Azure Stack HCI Azure Stack HCI is a solution for Microsoft Azure to host Azure resources on your own hardware and location. This sounds traditional but can help to boost your Azure resources for your customer and/or use case. For …
How to learn Azure - My learning resources
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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6 minute read
To give a quick overview of all the training resources I used throughout the years and give you different types and sorted the resources from beginning to end: Text based Video’s Labs and Applied Skills 1. Starting out (Video and text-based) …
Introduction to Azure roles and permissions (RBAC/IAM)
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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8 minute read
When managing a Microsoft Azure environment, permissions and roles with RBAC is one of the basic ways to improve your security. At one hand, you want to have the permissions to do basic tasks but at the other hand you want to restrict an user to be …
Network security in Azure with NSG and ASG
Friday, July 26, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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6 minute read
What does an Network Security Group (NSG) do? A network Security Group is a layer 4 network security layer in Azure to filter incoming and outgoing traffic which you can apply to: A single VM, you assign it to the NIC (Network Interface Card) A …
Rename name-tags to resource groups and resources
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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2 minute read
When it comes to naming your Azure Resource Groups and resources, most of them are not renameable. This due to limitations on the platform and maybe some underlying technical limitations. However, it is possible to assign a renameable tag to a …