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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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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]

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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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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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