Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has made new improvements to Azure Online Backup, which includes complex retention policies and more retention to its service.

Microsoft’s Brad Smith announced this morning that Microsoft is the first cloud provider to adopt the ISO/IEC 27018 cloud privacy standard.

Resetting Azure Active Directory password is simple with a little help from PowerShell in this quick, how-to article by Russell Smith.

Russell Smith walks us through the Microsoft Azure Resource Manager and explains how Azure resource groups can be used to manage your Azure assets.

Russell Smith shows us how to use the Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Optimization Assessment Tool to get advice about running Active Directory, SQL and SharePoint in the cloud.

Aidan Finn serves up a detailed how-to article on scheduling Azure VM startup and shutdown using Azure Automation to save you even more money.

Need help in choosing between Azure VM series? Aidan Finn gives us a run-down of the different VM sizes and how to choose between them.

Enabling Auto-Scaling for Azure VMs

Azure Active Directory Administrative Units are a great way to limit the scope of administrative roles. Learn how to create and manage them in this how-to article by Russell Smith.

Land your next job promotion by following this helpful advice from Aidan Finn for reducing the cost of virtual machines running in Azure.