Cloud Solution Architect

In my last post, I spent some time providing an overview of Operational Management Suite (OMS) and...

Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 03/16/2016

Over my first year working at Microsoft, it has been very clear that we are doing everything that we...

Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 03/07/2016

This post covers how to provision a Cloudera-certified Hadoop IaaS cluster on Azure, for Production,...

Author: Anagha Khanolkar Date: 03/06/2016

UPDATE: This post has been updated to use the new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) cmdlets released in...

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 02/26/2016

My colleague Neil just did a great article on how to interact with the REST APIs directly.  When...

Author: Jason Vallery Date: 02/24/2016

There are many options for configuring monitoring and alerting for Azure resources. The Azure portal...

Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 02/23/2016

Microsoft Azure was released into public preview in 2008. A year later, the Azure Service Management...

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 02/20/2016

The following features are provided to monitor Azure resources: Azure Status – portal showing status...

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 02/20/2016

This is an update to a previous blog post regarding BitLocker encryption of your Azure VMs using...

Author: doodlemania Date: 02/11/2016

I ran into a problem with a customer while we were trying to deploy Windows VM’s in Azure. We had...

Author: Pete Rodriguez Date: 02/09/2016

I was recently presented with an interesting question about Azure Web Apps, WordPress, and MySQL....

Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 12/03/2015

The deep integration between Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Azure Active Directory (AAD) lights up...

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 10/25/2015

Azure supports two control planes for managing Azure services: Azure Service Management (ASM) and...

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 10/24/2015

First of all, let me apologize for taking so long to get this second posting out there. I ran into...

Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 09/08/2015

With the release of Azure Resource Manager and its corresponding new set of REST services, it has...

Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 08/06/2015

When designing application deployments for the cloud one of the most common issues my customers face...

Author: Jason Vallery Date: 08/05/2015

If there is one thing that is absolutely true about deploying an application within “The...

Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 06/26/2015

A common ask when working with Azure is “how do I protect my critical resources?” Often this ask is...

Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 06/18/2015

It is true that Azure Block Blob storage is dirt cheap. Why pay for storage though if you don't have...

Author: Jason Vallery Date: 05/21/2015

Today there isn't a simple way to integrate the power of Application Insights into your worker role...

Author: Jason Vallery Date: 05/21/2015

The Azure PowerShell cmdlets support two authentication techniques: AAD and self-signed X.509...

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 05/14/2015

Although we as Cloud Solution Architects (CSA) are required to be very technically knowledgeable,...

Author: Brian Christopher Harrison Date: 05/12/2015

The Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is a new desired-state deployment manager for application resources...

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 05/05/2015

I had to do some IO testing for a customer with Azure Premium Storage. I was able to get some...

Author: Pete Rodriguez Date: 05/04/2015

If you’ve ever wished you could get a GUI experience with your Azure Linux VM’s, here’s how you can...

Author: Pete Rodriguez Date: 05/02/2015

Microsoft recently announced the Azure App Service...

Author: Pete Rodriguez Date: 04/28/2015

I'm often creating new VM instances with PowerShell. I always like to use the most recently...

Author: Jason Vallery Date: 04/01/2015

The Azure Service Management REST API (ASM) provides the definitive way to manage Azure resources....

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 03/17/2015

A common request when working with Microsoft Azure is, "How can I view audit logs to determine who...

Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 03/10/2015

There are two primary ways to authenticate against the Azure Service Management API: Azure Active...

Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 03/01/2015

It is widely known that it is possible to add Remote Desktop (RDP) to a Cloud Service (web/worker...

Author: Michael S. Collier Date: 02/04/2015

The Azure Service Management REST API (ASM) provides an extensive set of RESTful operations that can...

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 02/02/2015

Azure Diagnostics has been provided for Azure Cloud Services since they went GA in 2010. This...

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 01/26/2015

Azure DocumentDB is a fully managed document database in the Microsoft Azure platform. I provided an...

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 12/09/2014

In the enterprise-scale era, data systems were dominated by the relational database and the focus...

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 12/07/2014

When you upload and deploy a cloud services package to Azure the actual .cspkg file gets copied...

Author: Jason Vallery Date: 12/03/2014

A virtual machine (VM) deployed into Microsoft Azure is associated with several types of IP address....

Author: Neil Mackenzie Date: 11/08/2014

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