Azure Arc – Enable Azure Arc Auto Updates using Azure Portal
Azure Arc Auto Updates is key, as the foundation of your hybrid cloud strategy and it’s single contral plane in Azure is the Connected Machine Agent. While we often focus…
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Azure Bastion Developer SKU: Secure Access Without the “Bastion Tax”
In the past, securing your Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) often felt like a trade-off between security and budget. If you wanted to avoid the risks of exposing RDP or SSH…
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VPN Ubiquiti UniFi UDM to Azure (2026 Edition)
Update: This guide replaces my original article located here with this VPN Ubiquiti UniFi UDM to Azure (2026 Edition). In the past, we relied on the Basic VPN Gateway and…
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Azure Arc Region Availability – Choose the right region
To choose the right region based on Azure Arc Region availability is your first step in the journey into hybrid cloud with Azure Arc promises unparalleled flexibility, extending Azure’s management…
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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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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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