Guest Access Patterns for Azure Subscriptions Using Access Packages External users—partners, vendors, contractors, auditors—often need access to Azure subscriptions. Without governance, this becomes risky fast. Access Packages provide a clean,…
Access Reviews for Azure Subscriptions: Why They Matter and How to Implement Them Access Reviews are one of the most underrated parts of Microsoft Entra ID Governance. If Access Packages…
Using Azure Access Packages to Govern Subscription Access You’re basically trying to solve a classic problem: “How do I give people the right access to the right subscriptions or resources…
So You’ve Deployed Azure Platform Landing Zones — What Comes Next? Deploying Azure Platform Landing Zones (APLZ) is a major milestone. It gives you a secure, scalable, enterpriseready foundation aligned…
How to Install the Azure PowerShell Az Module on Windows If you manage Microsoft Azure from a Windows machine, Azure PowerShell is one of the most useful tools you can…
It’s been a while since my last post, and first things first — thank you for sticking around. Life, work, and a few too many late‑night architecture diagrams and learning…
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These are steps for helping you creating a Personal Access Token (PAT) ready for deploying the Azure Landing Zones Accelerator to GitHub Navigate to https://github.com/<yourrepo> Click this image. Click “Settings”…
Assign Owner Roles in Azure Subscriptions Navigate to https://portal.azure.com/#home Click “Subscriptions” Click “Connectivity” Click “Access control (IAM)” Click this icon. Click here. Click “Privileged administrator roles” Click “Owner” Click here.…
Navigate to https://portal.azure.com/#home Click the “Search resources, services, and docs (G+/)” field. Type “entra” Click “Microsoft Entra ID” Click here. Click “App registrations” Click here. Type “ALZ-SPN” Click “Register” Click…
Azure Files offers scalable and flexible cloud storage for managed file shares, accessible from anywhere, and supporting multiple protocols for diverse IT environments. It integrates smoothly with on-premises infrastructure and…
A Comprehensive Guide Introduction Setting up an Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) in Azure offers a scalable and reliable solution for managing network resources and user authentication. This guide…
1. Scalability and Flexibility: Scalability: Easily scale your infrastructure up or down as needed, adding more domain controllers or resources as your organization grows. Flexibility: Deploy domain controllers in multiple…
Azure Migrate is a Microsoft tool designed to aid organizations in planning and implementing transitions to Azure. It features various assessments, including for Azure VMs, Azure SQL, Azure App Service,…
Azure Migrate, a Microsoft tool, aids in cloud migration by featuring Dependency Analysis, which maps interdependencies among applications and services. This crucial feature helps minimize downtime, optimize costs, and mitigate…
Microsoft’s identity and access management solutions have evolved significantly over the years. In this blog post, we’ll compare two of their key offerings: Active Directory and Microsoft Entra. What is…
The Azure Well-Architected Framework serves as a guiding light for architects, helping them establish a solid technical foundation for their Azure workloads. It comprises quality-driven tenets, architectural decision points, and…
Please be aware that when signing up for the free trial of GitHub Copilot you will be asked to submit a form of payment even though you will not be…
Step-by-Step Guide: Setting up Azure Migrate, Project and Downloading Appliance 1. Click “Search resources” and Type Azure Migrate 2. Click “Azure Migrate” 3. Click “Discover, assess and migrate” 4. Click…
Azure Migrate is a great tool and great for migrating and modernising your datacentres. But more importantly it’s a discover and assessment tool that can help you plan your migrations.…
Migrating State File In, my last post I showed you how to create a storage account using Terraform. In this post I’m going to show you how to change that…
What is infrastructure as Code (IaC)? So I thought I’d ask Chat GPT this question and this is what it returned…… Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a way of managing…
A belated Happy New to everyone. As its a New Year and due to not posting for a while, I thought why not kick start with a fresh new look…
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