Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been creating some CNAME records on one of my domain registers DNS portal. They had recently migrated to a new portal to make things “easier”. This has caused a lot of issues, the last issue I had was being unable to create CNAMES with a – in Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently I have been improving the security of my Azure subscriptions. I wanted to protect some resources from accidental deletion and I also want to protect some resources like NSG’s from accidental changes. To accomplish this I decided to use Azure Locks. Azure Locks come in two different levels, CanNotDelete and ReadOnly. Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhilst doing some daily Azure Administration I came across an error on one of my App Services. The App service in question uses vNet Integration and the certificate for the virtual network had become out of sync. I am not 100% sure how this happened, but there was an issue Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a previous blog, which you can read here, I showed you how to create an Azure file share. So now it’s about time I did a guide on how to actually back up the Azure file share. Below I will walk through the steps you need to take to Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have some Virtual Machines running in Azure that do not need to be on all the time. In fact, they are just training machines. I needed a way to stop and start the VMs out of business hours without having to do it manually. After some research I came Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo what is vNet peering? Well, basically it is a way to connect two vNets over the backbone of Azure’s network rather than creating an Azure VPN Gateway between the two. Some good points about using vNet peering over a Gateway is the cost saving, bandwidth limitations and latency. vNet Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesBelow you will find a list of what is going to be tested in the new AZ-102 Azure Administrator exam and a link to a resource that I think will help you learn and pass the exam. It is a work in progress at the moment and I will keep Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft inspire has been taking place in Las Vegas and during the keynote, Microsoft announced 3 new Azure certifications. One for Azure Developers, one for Azure Administrators, and one for Azure Architects. Microsoft has actually released the beta exams for the Azure Administrator certificate. You can read more about them Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe more I work on Azure, the more I am having to switch between subscriptions. Now, this usually means copying and pasting the subscription ID every time. This is no good! So I decided to see if I can script a subscription selector and I did. It’s below! The script Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this blog post, I am going to go through the steps to create an Azure SQL Database using the Azure Portal. I will also go through the steps on how to connect to the database after it has been created. What is an Azure SQL Database A Microsoft Azure Read more