Microsoft Azure How to monitor Azure Reservations utilization Using Azure Reservations is one of many technics to optimize your cloud spend in Azure. They are a great option to reduce costs for Azure resources with a long lifespan and predictable utilization.
How To How to update the OAuth2 permission grants for an Azure AD service principal In this blog post, I will share some tips on how you can update the OAuth2 permission grants for an existing application in your tenant.
How To How to connect to Azure Database for MySQL from Ghost container Continuing the topic of hosting Ghost on Azure, I decided to document some nuances of connecting to Azure Database for MySQL from a Ghost Docker container hosted on Azure Web Apps for Containers.
Azure DevOps How to deploy to different tenants with Azure DevOps Although most organizations, especially with centralized IT management, prefer to build and operate their infrastructure within a single Azure AD tenant, there are still enough corner cases when you need to span your deployment process across multiple tenants.
Microsoft Azure Ghost deployment on Azure: Security Hardening In the first part of this series, I wrote about running Ghost on Azure Web App for Containers. Here we will explore some security improvements to the original deployment configuration, as I promised last time.
Azure Policy Azure Policy: Starter Guide My coworkers and teammates often reach out to me with similar questions regarding the best practices for creating and applying Azure Policy. That tendency encouraged me to compile this starter guide for Azure Policy, which is based on my practical experience in multiple projects.
Microsoft Azure Practical use cases of cost optimization in Azure Addressing the subject with traditional direct approaches of cost-cutting such as negotiating for discounts or moving to a cheaper service provider can help you to some extent. Still, your saving results might not be very impressive if comparing to cloud-native options.
How To How I run my blog Recently, I got a few questions from my friends and colleagues about my blog. Specifically, about its internals. Not to repeat myself, answering the same questions over and over, here I am going to share the technical details on that.
How To Signing your emails in Outlook with an S/MIME certificate and YubiKey Following my experience in signing commits with GPG, Git and YubiKey, I continued my experiments with cryptography and decided to set up a digital signature on my personal email. That is not something I need for work, and mostly I did it just for fun.
How To How to sign your commits with GPG, Git and YubiKey Last week I finally managed to get my hands on a YubiKey 5 NFC I ordered last Christmas and configured it to use for signing my commits on GitHub. By signing your commits, you can let other people know that the changes come from a trusted source if, of course, people trust your digital identity.
Azure DevOps How to access private PowerShell repository from Azure pipeline In my last post, I showed you how to use Azure Artifacts to host your PowerShell repository and publish your custom PowerShell modules to it. Here I would like to talk about accessing and using those modules by other Azure Pipelines.
How To How to optimize the cost of your cloud resources [Crosspost] From my experience, this is a hot topic for customers who are on their road to cloud-only infrastructure for a long time. Their interest in that is explainable: despite some perceived vagueness of cloud services, the numbers in monthly invoices are for real.
PowerShell How to roll out Microsoft Monitoring Agent with PowerShell DSC I already wrote a pretty informative article about using PowerShell DSC for configuring Azure DevOps build servers, and here I would like to share a solution for a more common task – onboarding your servers for monitoring with Azure Monitor.
About How I learn new technology Following the post about my reading experience, I decided to share some advice on how I manage to keep up with the constant flow of new computer technologies.
Microsoft Azure How to deploy Azure Policy from an Azure DevOps pipeline After publishing my posts about deploying Azure Policy and Azure Policy initiatives from ARM templates, I got a few questions about performing such deployments from Azure DevOps pipelines. Indeed, there are a few things to pay attention to. So, I will try to shed some light on them in this article.
Microsoft Azure How to ensure proper configuration for your Azure resources A common task for Azure administrators is to ensure that resources in their Azure subscriptions are configured accordingly to some business requirements or standards’ regulations. So, how to accomplish this in practice?
Microsoft Azure How to deploy linked ARM templates from private Azure DevOps repositories You probably already know that Azure Resource Manager should be able to access linked ARM templates via provided URI during the deployment of the master template. You cannot use local files. So, how to deploy linked ARM templates from a private repo?
Microsoft Azure How to enforce naming convention for Azure resources At some point, an organization might end up with Azure subscriptions that contain a bunch of resources named in a completely different manner. To bring some order in this mess, people usually try to come up with a naming convention to ensure a standard user experience across the teams.
Microsoft Azure Using ARM templates to deploy Azure Policy initiatives Instead of maintaining lots of separate files for Azure Policy you can put all the artifacts in an ARM template. Moreover, you can do the same for policy initiatives.
Microsoft Azure How to deploy Azure Policies with ARM templates Recently, I was working on creating custom Azure Policies and felt puzzled about how to create an efficient deployment process for them. All official examples referenced using separate files for policy parameters and rules plus additional input parameters to Azure PowerShell cmdlets.
Productivity How to use Microsoft Outlook to stay productive - Part 2 In the previous part of productivity hacks with Microsoft Outlook I wrote about the importance of offline work, reducing the number of emails to deal with and sorting them for work. Now, it is time to actually plan your work wisely.
Productivity How to use Microsoft Outlook to stay productive - Part 1 Following multiple questions on my recent posts on personal productivity tips (Part 1 and Part 2) from my fellow colleagues who asked for some practical recommendations on how to be more productive at work, I decided to share some useful productivity life hacks you can implement with Outlook.
About How I read books Recently, I got the same question from a few people who were interested in how I manage to read so many books during a year. To save time, I decided to write this
How To How to fix images width for Microsoft Outlook in Mailchimp RSS campaigns sourced from Ghost Recently I was playing with email notifications for my blog which is powered by Ghost. I was choosing between Drip and Mailchimp and decided to give a try for the latter. It took
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