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All code for this blog can be found here . I've been trailblazing with Azure since 2016. Before 2016, I set up an Entra ID (formerly...

All code for this blog can be found here . So you went all-in on Spot VMs to save money, but now you’ve hit that dreaded eviction wall....

All code for this blog post can be found here . By now you’ve probably figured out I like to make things harder on myself before I make...

All code for this blog can be found here . Azure Update Manager promises to make patching easier. The idea is simple: assess your VMs,...

Shannon's Disclaimer: All code for this blog can be found here . I'm going to start out code based blogs with their own repo and will...

Often times I think the idea is not to confuse, but when you sort of pile on all the different services in Azure, some of the details get...

In Part 1 , I wrestled my Unifi Dream Machine Pro into submission and got it talking on Tailscale. That gave me a subnet router for my...

I set out to replace my traditional Azure site to site VPN with something lighter and easier to manage (plus Microsoft is effectively...

Over the course of my career, I've picked up various Visual Studio Subscriptions that enable me to build and maintain a small Azure...

Like a lot of my posts lately, this one kicked off with a customer question. An innocent question at that, but the kind that makes you...

Like a lot of my blog posts as of late, I get asked all sorts of questions by customers struggling to make sense of Azure and in this...

What's interesting is there are still customers I work with who are considering a full blown datacenter migration to cloud. This is why...

I am genuinely starting to realize there's still a lot of confusion out there and arguably I'm also pretty confused myself a lot of days...

Cloud security feels a little like alphabet soup sometimes. You hear terms like CSPM , CNAPP , CWPP , CIEM  — and it can all start to...

If you're managing multiple Log Analytics workspaces in Azure Monitor (like one of my customers recently), keeping track of log ingestion...

In my presales role at AHEAD, I focus on the "art of the possible" in customer conversations. We often analyze customers' cloud storage...

Azure Policy allows you to create, assign, and manage policies in Azure (that definition feels a little like one of those awful...

This post required a revision based upon how I originally positioned AWS Reserved Instances. I'm still learning AWS, so I had some During...

I had a colleague at Microsoft (who's not in identity) mention that it's confusing when someone looks in the Entra portal or Azure Active...

When it comes to Azure, Azure Active Directory is usually one of the easiest services to spin up quickly. Overall, integration into the...