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Troubleshooting Azure VPNs

Russell Smith shows you how to enable VPN gateway diagnostics and download the resulting logs from Azure storage.

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What is Azure Firewall?

Microsoft has a new firewall feature for Azure and in this post, Aidan breaks down how it works and how to use it.

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Security

Securing Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure Active Directory Conditional Access

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to provide access to Windows 10 and Windows 11 desktops and applications virtually anywhere. It’s a solution hosted by Microsoft, which makes it secure by design, even though there is a lot of responsibility on the customer to ensure services are secure. In this article, I will…

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Getting Started with Azure Virtual Desktop: Understanding Azure Virtual Desktop

Last Update: Feb 22, 2023

In the first part of this series, I look at the basics of Microsoft’s new Windows Virtual Desktop service.

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IT Governance with Azure Policy

Learn how to control the properties users can select when provisioning resources in the Azure cloud.

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Microsoft Azure by the Numbers

At Microsoft’s Build conference, the company revealed a few statistics about how large its operation is and other key figures.

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A Tale of Two Azures

Did you know that there are two versions of Azure? Yes, and there are also some situations and solutions that you now take for granted and will not be available to you.

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Azure Bicep Brings Easier Infrastructure as Code to Azure Resource Management

Azure Project Bicep, or just Bicep as Microsoft sometimes refers to it, is a new domain-specific language (DSL) for deploying cloud resources using infrastructure as code. If this sounds like Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, then you’d be right. ARM templates can now be authored in Bicep or JSON. Infrastructure as code and ARM templates…

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Azure Update Management Part 1: Overview and Enrolling Azure VMs

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell shows you how to enroll Azure virtual machines to Azure Update Management and provide a general overview of how the solution works.

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What is Azure Firewall

Aidan details Azure Firewall, a cloud-scale firewall service that was made generally available at the recent Microsoft Ignite conference.

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