Blogging all things Microsoft Azure
Adding Azure Application Insights to your WordPress site is straight-forward with a great benefit to see how users access your site. Plugin used:- https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-WordPress Why use Application Insights? Application Insights has a range of benefits and uses in relation to monitoring of your application and site, in relation to WordPress.com – benefits of using Application…
Want to transfer data to Azure Storage Accounts and unsure what method to use? Lets have a look at Azure Data Transfer suggestions to assist you in choosing the solution recommended for you A pretty cool feature within Storage Accounts, a few quick drop-downs to select and Azure offer you the most viable options to…
Using Azure Blob storage & storing data? Throughout the life time of data, its requirement for access can vary and sometimes may rarely be required again after a few days or the data expires after a month once its been created. Depending on the amount of data you consume with Azure Blob storage, this can…
My blog entry for the Azure Advent Calendar, you may be asking what this is? Azure Advent Calendar is running through the month of December, consisting of 75 Videos and blog posts all relating to Microsoft Azure, ran my Gregor Suttie & Richard Hooper Thank you for letting me part of this great community event,…
Took a different approach today, spent the morning speaking to vendors and some Microsoft staff on various resources within Azure. This followed by a couple of Microsoft Mechanic sessions, the first focusing on Azure data warehousing and how the newly announced Azure Synapse Analytics service can benefit this even further Azure Synapse, combining data analytics…
After a very exciting first day, back for another fast paced day in the world of Microsoft Ignite with again, quite a number of new additions/announcements to Azure. Session: Architecting and implementing Governance across your subscriptions Speakers: Joseph Chan Governance is a requirement in any project, especially more and more sought after in today’s cloud world.…
This is my first year, attending Microsoft Ignite – what an event. The sheer size of the venue and scale of sessions available to various events happening throughout the day – mind blowing! I’ve blogged a roundup of sessions I attended today, including links and updates from various Azure Resources that I will find useful.…
Previously I blogged “Using PowerShell to automatically Tweet a random Blog Post from Table Storage” which resulted in a couple of Azure PowerShell Functions, this is a complex setup and possibly not required if all you are looking to do is Tweet a random blog post at a scheduled time. In this blog, I will…
Want to create alerts from the Azure Activity Log? I will be showing how to do this with the PowerShell cmdlet Set-AzActivityLogAlert using conditions taken from a json output of the Activity Log. For the example I will be looking at alerting when a change has been made to a Network Security Group (NSG) I…
Have a requirement for a static website in either HTML, CSS, JavaScript? Have a look at creating a static Website using an Azure Storage Account, simple to create and very cost effective! In this blog, I will show to do this via both Portal and PowerShell A v2 Storage Account is required. During initial setup…