Azure provides a rich set of capabilities for monitoring your Azure resources. Although there is a great deal of documentation and various ways of monitoring services such as Azure Metrics, Application Insights and Azure OMS Log Analytics. I will demonstrate a specific approach to a specific solution that serves to be practical and useful. Provide …
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Using Azure Logic Apps, I demonstrate how to get Azure resource groups and their containing Azure resource and enter them into a SharePoint List. Although grouping of resource groups and their resources is possible in the Azure Portal, displaying the same information in a SharePoint list could be useful in a dashboard friendly scenario where …
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Logic Apps is an Azure service for enterprise integration. It comes with many connectors including from outside of the Microsoft ecosystem. In this blog post, I will show an implementation and key implementation points that will facilitate an approval process for approving a document in SharePoint Online. Business Scenario User publishes a document for approval. …
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In my blog post Super Cheap Azure Web Site using Azure CDN, I have written about setting up a very cost-effective approach of serving up an Azure Web App using Azure CDN as a form of proxy. Scenario Load test Azure Web App in free tier using Azure CDN S1 tier. Azure CDN endpoint A …
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With the recently announced roll out of SharePoint Online Hub Sites, I was able to set one up in my Office 365 tenant. I am excited to apply this capability to intranet solutions where applicable. For introduction and background, read Organize your intranet with SharePoint hub sites "SharePoint hub sites bring the following new capabilities …
Azure File is a service in Azure Storage Accounts such that I look at it a managed network file share. For a further introduction read Introduction to Azure Files A practical use case for me in a development team scenario is where each team member has its own or shared Azure Virtual Machine and there is …
In planning to host a very low traffic web site, I find Azure Web App to be expensive compared to other managed hosting providers. The cheapest App Service pricing option is the Free tier. But these do not support https and custom domains. Even B1 Basic is a bit pricey at $81CAD/month if you hosting …
In my blog post Virtual Network Integration between Azure Virtual Machine and Azure SQL Database, I have shown an implementation of secure database connections from a virtual network subnet to a PaaS Azure SQL DB using service endpoints and virtual network rules. I will show how to validate the connection using SQL Management Studio from …
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Objective: To show database connectivity from an Azure virtual machine to PaaS Azure SQL Database using SQL service endpoints in a virtual network. Background: For IaaS environments for internal facing systems, system designers may choose Azure SQL as their database of choice versus SQL Server in a virtual machine. A question or concern may come …
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I will give a detailed look at the configuration and operation of auto-scaling in my Azure app service plan. Along with my comments and experiences. I have an Azure App Service Plan with 1 Core / 3GB RAM with one web app deployed. Although you can have many web apps in the same plan to …
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