Azure Security Center Threat Protection: Visibility for Storage Account Access
Azure Security Center provides additional visibility into many Azure services. In this post, Rickatron takes a look at how to handle Alerts.
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How to: Set network access for storage accounts in Azure
Setting network access (Internet and Azure VNET) for storage accounts is a good idea. In this post, the Rickatron outlines the how-to.
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Use Azure Storage Metrics to get Answers
Metrics are a great way to have quantification for Azure storage accounts. Rick Vanover tours this capability.
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The Case of Failing Veeam Replicas – The RPC Function Call failed Function Name [InvokeTestConnection]
A quick post for you here tonight. I have been having some issues with some of my Replica jobs failing over the past few weeks with the following error message.
Failed to process task Error: The RPC server is unavailable.
RPC Function call failed. Function Name [InvokerTestConnection]
Thinking About Upgrading Azure Storage Account Configuration Options? Read This.
Azure releases new services all the time. Sometimes, individual services have new versions and upgrades. Let’s have Rick walk through an upgrade from v1 to v2 of general purpose storage account.
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Tips to correctly delete Azure resource groups
Be sure when you are deleting a resource group – you are doing the right thing. It’s better to be sure than have unused resource groups in the Azure console.
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Why, How and Where to use Azure Tags
Azure tags can be a construct to organize your resources.
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Using Azure Blueprints: Implementation best practices to put security first
Azure Blueprints can help you implement Azure solutions confidently.
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Creating an Azure Budget: A must for test-dev!
One of the brightest people I know likes to say that “the cloud is not a charity” and that is true. While I will add that many businesses go to the cloud because it is the right platform for their technology needs, the economics have to part of the process of managing this IT footprint
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Azure Mobile App – Should you use it?
In a previous post when I highlighted the Azure Advisor, a message that came up on login. The message for Azure Advisor was actually only one of the things that caught my eye on login. The other was an invitation (?) or note to try the Azure mobile app.
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What is Azure Blob Soft Delete and Should I use it?
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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Is Azure Advisor Advice Worthwhile? Let’s see…
Today when logging in, I had a message about trying Azure Advisor recommendations. Normally, I dismiss login messages, but one thing caught my eye: free. Azure Advisor is a free set of recommendations the provide personalized, best practice information.
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Azure File Share Remote Connection Checklist
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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How to Convert Windows SSL certificate PFX Format to PEM Format #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR @Digicert
Today, I am going to show you how to convert Windows SSL certificate PFX format to PEM format via free DigiCert GUI too
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MFA for Azure Portal, You’ve Done That Right?
From the last two posts I made related to the Azure Key Vault (one on encrypting with your own key and the other on how to generate a key), I’ll admit I’m getting started with security in Azure.
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