There are quite a few monitoring tools out there that can benefit you in your environment, but if you want to capitalize on robust alerting and monitoring within the Azure space, then Azure Monitor is the ideal solution to use. Azure Monitor will allow your...
In this article, you will learn best practices on migrating on-premise servers and applications to Azure. The push to the cloud is expediting, and it is essential to understand best practices and how to migrate on-premise servers and applications to Microsoft Azure....
I wanted to get this quick-read out there, as I recently ran into this issue and didn't see any articles about a remedy for it. Here's some background: I've set up an NPS server in Azure for a client so they can leverage the NPS MFA extension that you can integrate...
Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS) provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), and Kerberos/NTLM authentication that's fully compatible with Windows Server Active...
Microsoft states, "Azure Arc for servers allows you to manage machines which are outside of Azure. When a non-Azure machine is connected to Azure, it becomes a Connected Machine and is treated as a resource in Azure. Each Connected Machine has a Resource ID, is...
Backups have always been a crucial asset in today's continuous battles to control and protect our data. Every day, your data protection is being challenged continuously by malicious malware and viruses to hold your data hostage and have you pay fees to get it back....
Since Microsoft's launch of Office 365 (O365) in 2013, it has changed the landscape of software/cloud technologies. There are a plethora of reasons for your business to choose Microsoft SaaS services for your day to day activities, but here are just a few key features...
With Windows Server 2008/R2, along with Windows 7 OS, approaching EOL (End of Life) in mid-January, it is time to start prepping your infrastructure for upgrades. Microsoft announced last year that if you migrate your SQL 2008-2008 R2 environment to Azure, they will...
Azure Backup Service has risen from just being a simple flat file backup solution to an all in one sandbox for all your backup service needs. From BMR (Bare Metal Restore) to SQL databases, Azure Backup now gives you one centralized location to manage your data and...
Azure SQL has introduced the ability to set firewall rules at the database level. A database firewall is different than the server firewall which can be configured via the Azure Portal. The database firewall gives you the ability to not only limit connections at the...