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Azure Service Lifecycles: Understanding Preview and GA Releases – 2025

Azure Service Lifecycles are an important part of your roadmapping. When using them you’ll often encounter terms like Private Preview, Public Preview, and General Availability (GA). Understanding these phases is…

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Azure Managed Disk Types – 2025

Azure offers a variety of managed disk types tailored to different workloads and performance needs. Azure Managed Disk Types Azure provides Standard SSD, Premium SSD, Standard HDD, and Ultra Disk…

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AVMA – Simplifying Offline Device Activation

AVMA can help in the ever-evolving world of IT, where managing software licenses across virtual machines (VMs) can be a daunting task, especially when dealing with offline devices. Traditional methods…

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Azure Arc – ReservedResourceName issue Onboarding

On premise and Azure naming conventions and reserved resource names do collide, when you do an Azure Arc Onboarding with an ReservedResourceName error. It is important to remember the Azure…

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Azure Charts– Visualisation of Azure News

The number of Azure products is now endless. It’s hard to get focused information. Alexey Polkovnikov, Microsoft Sr. Cloud Solution Architect, offers a refreshingly different solution. Azure has transformed the…

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A dragon from the Shadowrun world working as an IT Architect, deploying a Linux Virtual Machine in Azure, with no human arms.

Deploy your own File Converter – Part 1 Azure VM

When you need to convert files into another file type you very often end up with “free”, “advertised” and potentially not secure Web Sites or tools to install locally. Today…

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Azure Administrator AZ-104 – free training

When seeking the most valuable Azure Hyperscaler certification, many individuals opt for the “The Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)“. Obtaining this certification demonstrates your proficiency in managing cloud services…

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Azure Quick Review 2.04 – High Level Assessments

With Azure Quick Review (azqr) you can quickly make a High Level Assessment of an “Azure Subscription” or “Resource Group”. Installation of Azure Quick Review You can download the files…

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Connect Ubiquiti UniFi UDM to Azure VPN

My homelab and private network are segmented by a Ubiquiti Unifi UDM Pro for security and using some features like WAN port load balancing and failover. When setting up my…

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Azure Feeds – all your RSS Feed Updates

A little tip for the RSS fans and bookworms among us for the weekend: Azurefeeds.com collects lots of articles in one place for your RSS Feed. As described in an German…

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