CLOUDY MUSINGS

All code for this blog can be found here . I keep hearing more and more interest by customers I work with in exploring Cloud...

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....

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...

This post came from a customer conversation that started with a seemingly innocent question: “I’m using GRS for my storage accounts....

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...

A few weeks ago, my Pi-hole started throwing up errors that I may have incorrectly identified as a bad upstream DNS provider . Now do I...

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

If you've been following my blog, you know I often write about the environments I manage for demo purposes. I definitely cut corners and...

In my last post, I built out a quick script to remove Internet Explorer from Windows servers. Now that Internet Explorer has effectively...

With Internet Explorer finally retiring after a lengthy 27 year career, it came time for removal within the servers I maintain for demos....

Now that I have your attention, I figured something out today that was surprisingly easy. When I set up my Azure Active Directory tenant...

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

Hey folks! As you find yourself doing more and more with PowerShell, you may want to automate some tasks on servers you're running...

I usually have a number of computers I use on a regular basis. Occasionally, I decide to completely reimage my Windows machines because I...

Hey friends! After I posted my last blog article, I figured folks may want a quick way to change TLS to 1.2 for all Windows servers...

Something I always felt wasn't called out well is how to use Key Vault secrets with ARM Templates. The Azure Quickstart Repository on...

A random question sort of pushed itself into view recently: can you submit an ARM Template build as a job? Did you know you can? There...