How happy would you be if you got a chance to test your app in the same platform/environment as your production? Azure slots do that for you. To be more precise you get to test it in your production environment. Azure App Services is one of the extremely useful services consisting of web apps, API… READ MORE
Most of the times, when deploying App Services such as a webapp to a single region, you simply use the Azure App Service Deploy task, that is currently in version 3.0 and whose a preview of the next version is to come. However, using the very same task to deploy an App Service to multiple… READ MORE
In this blog post, I will be talking about the differences between Azure ATP vs ATA. You can also read about Azure advanced threat protection deployment, Azure ATP and Windows Defender ATP integration, and Azure advanced threat protection lateral movement. AZURE ADVANCED THREAT PROTECTION AZURE ATP If you’ve ever used Microsoft advanced threat analytics (a.k.a ATA) before, you would be surprised or confused… READ MORE
Azure Information Protection (AIP) is used to label, classify and protect documents and emails across apps and services. Within the Azure portal, you can now also apply usage rights to documents and emails labeled with AIP using the Azure Rights Management service. A truly powerful combination. What is meant by usage rights? These are the kinds of things you’ll… READ MORE
In this blog post, I will be talking about Azure advanced threat protection deployment, and walk you through my experience doing large implementation in an environment with virtual domain controllers hosted on VMware clusters. You can also read about Azure advanced threat protection lateral movement, Azure ATP and Windows Defender ATP integration, and Azure ATP vs ATA. Azure advanced threat… READ MORE
Planned maintenance for virtual machines in Azure As mention in previous post, Azure periodically perform the update to increase reliability, performance, security. These updates includes patching software components in the hosting environment (like operating system, hypervisor, and various agents deployed on the host), upgrading networking components, to hardware decommissioning. As mention these update don’t have any… READ MORE
Understand the Maintenance and Downtime Unplanned Hardware Maintenance Event This event occurs when Azure predicts either hardware or any platform component is going to fail. Azure Issue an unplanned hardware maintenance alert to reduce the impact to the VMs hosted on that hardware. What is the impact in this case?In this scenario Azure uses Live migration to… READ MORE
In my last post I have shown you how to create and configure the Analysis services in Azure. Today I will show you how to connect to the Analysis Services from Visual Studio SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools). In my lab environment the initial Architecture was as follows. Fig: Azure Analysis Service Initial Architecture. The steps to… READ MORE
This post I have targeted to the BI developers and system admins who are interested to configure and work with the SQL Server Analysis Services in Azure (Called Analysis Services in Azure) What is SQL Server Analysis Services? SQL Analysis Service is the PaaS instance of SQL Server Analysis Services. It’s an analytical data engine… READ MORE
Azure Search Index can work really well with Azure Blob Storage. It can automatically index and analyse documents uploaded to a Storage Container to make it easy for you to expose the data in your application.When working with Blob data, Azure Search is designed to incrementally add new documents automatically. However, where it gets really… READ MORE
