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Shannon
Dec 18, 20243 min read
Exploratory FinOps Scripts: Azure Disk and Snapshot Information
In my presales role at AHEAD, I focus on the "art of the possible" in customer conversations. We often analyze customers' cloud storage...
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Shannon
May 28, 20245 min read
Enforcing Design Consistency with Azure Policy and Tags
Azure Policy allows you to create, assign, and manage policies in Azure (that definition feels a little like one of those awful...
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Shannon
Apr 26, 20243 min read
Reserved Instances (RIs) vs. Savings Plans (SPs): A Comparison between Azure and AWS
This post required a revision based upon how I originally positioned AWS Reserved Instances. I'm still learning AWS, so I had some During...
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Shannon
Dec 15, 20212 min read
App Registration vs. Enterprise Applications
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...
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Shannon
Oct 7, 20216 min read
Automatically Roll Over Kerberos Decryption Key with AAD Seamless Single Sign-On
When it comes to Azure, Azure Active Directory is usually one of the easiest services to spin up quickly. Overall, integration into the...
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Shannon
Sep 1, 20212 min read
Upgrading AAD Connect Notes
With Windows 2012 R2 reaching end of support on October 23, 2023, it's (unfortunately) time to think about transitioning workloads off of...
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Shannon
Jul 28, 20216 min read
Check API Versions in Different Azure Regions
As you build more with code in Azure, knowing the API versions to lean on is helpful. If you use ARM Snippets in Visual Studio Code or...
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Shannon
Jul 3, 20213 min read
Noodling with Bicep
Now that I have your attention, know I've started digging into Bicep. It only makes sense, as I'm pretty deep into ARM Templates and...
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Shannon
Jun 12, 20214 min read
Log Analytics Build Options
So in my quest of spreading knowledge about how to build/deploy/configure Azure native monitoring for customers and the broader...
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Shannon
May 17, 20211 min read
DJ Shan - Azure Remixed - Show background
Folks! I have decided to put up a show on YouTube that will hopefully help out related to cloud adoption and ultimately demystifying...
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Shannon
Mar 21, 20214 min read
Switch Log Analytics Permissions Model
So far, this series has consisted of the previous blog posts: Log Analytics Design and Access Create Inventory of Existing Log Analytics...
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Shannon
Mar 14, 20215 min read
Create Inventory of Existing Log Analytics Workspaces
Seeing cloud adoption gain traction over the years has always put a smile on my face. Customers have made some successful migrations and...
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Shannon
Mar 6, 20214 min read
Log Analytics Design and Access
In the last 2 years, an entirely new permissions and access model came to Log Analytics. Prior to these permission changes, enterprises...
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Shannon
Feb 12, 20211 min read
vExpert - First Time Award Winner
The VMware vExpert designation is an award is given to individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of VMware users...
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Shannon
Jan 26, 20213 min read
ARM Templates
One of the things I've enjoyed over the last almost 5 years of all Azure all the time is digging deep into code...specifically ARM...
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Shannon
Jan 25, 20212 min read
Azure PowerShell - Complete Uninstall to Reinstall
I know a lot of us are using more command line based tools these days. Azure PowerShell is one of the tools I tend to use often if I need...
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Shannon
Jan 16, 20213 min read
Use Multiple Terminals - Visual Studio Code
As someone who is writing more and more code, I have been trying to embrace Visual Studio Code (VS Code) over Visual Studio (I can hear...
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Shannon
Jan 5, 20213 min read
VMware ON Azure? But why?
With my head in the cloud the last almost 5 years, it may seem like sort of an anti-pattern to even think about VMware running on Azure,...
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Shannon
Dec 16, 20202 min read
Who am I?
Welcome to a little slice of my crazy and bizarre world! Well hello there! If you've followed anything I've done online over the last...
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