Invoking a Stored Procedure from a partitioned CosmosDB collection from Logic Apps

I struggled a little to make that work, so I thought I would share the learning in order to accelerate your future endeavour.

I was looking at a way to populate a CosmosDB quickly with random data.

Stored Procedures came to mind since they would skip client-server latency.  We can call a stored procedure creating hundreds of documents with random...

Renaming Virtual Machine Disks

Let’s say we would like to rename disks on a Virtual Machine (VM).  Here we mean renaming the Azure Resource Name of the managed disk.  How would we go about that?

Why would we want to?  Primarily to get our internal nomenclature right.  A typical example is when we...

Azure Virtual Machines Anatomy

Virtual Machines can be pretty complex little beast.  They can have multiple disks, multiple NICs in different subnets, can be exposed on the public internet either directly or through a load balancer, etc.  .

In this article, we’ll look at the anatomy of a Virtual Machine (VM):  what are...

Virtual Network Service Endpoint - Hello World

In our last post we discussed the new feature Virtual Network Service Endpoint.

In this post we’re going to show how to use that feature.

We’re going to use it on a storage account.

We won’t go through the micro steps of setting up each services but we’ll focus on the Service Endpoint configuration.

Resource Group

As usual for...

VNET Service Endpoints for Azure SQL & Storage

It’s finally here, it has arrived:  Azure Virtual Network Service Endpoints.<p>This was a long requested “Enterprise feature”.</p><p>Let’s look at what this is and how to use it.</p><p>Please note that at the time of this writing (end-of-September 2017) this feature is available only in a few region in Public Preview:</p><ul><li>Azure...