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Author: Rick Vanover

The Rickatron. Rick Vanover works for Veeam, loves Microsoft and cloud technologies and likes to fiddle and learn.

Total Posts: 36

What is Azure Blob Soft Delete and Should I use it?

What is Azure Blob Soft Delete and Should I use it?

Posted by | Jul 30, 2019 | |

In my last post about using the Azure Advisor for a review of services and their configuration used in Azure, I immediately went to address the high impact (or red) recommendations. Naturally, I then was to look at the medium recommendations and one of them caught my eye for one of my storage accounts: “Enable Soft Delete to protect blob data.” This had me thinking, what is soft delete? How and where should it be used. Here is the medium impact recommendation:

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Azure File Share Remote Connection Checklist

Azure File Share Remote Connection Checklist

Posted by | Jul 18, 2019 | |

Today I had a situation where I wanted to connect my Azure file share to my Windows PC. This is a very important step in putting a practical use case around the Azure file share from outside of the Azure cloud. I had a few questions and required steps to get there, so I decided to share them with some consideration so you can easily do this when the time comes for you.

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Generating Keys in Azure Key Vault

Generating Keys in Azure Key Vault

Posted by | Jul 14, 2019 | |

In my last post, I indicated how easy it was to tell a storage account (particularly the Azure Shell storage account) to use an encryption key. In that example, I brought my own key. That key was an 2048-bit RSA key that Azure Key Vault was happy to use and apply to my storage account. The figure below shows my 2048-bit key:

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