Authenticating to Azure AD non-interactively

I want to use Azure AD as a user directory but I do not want to use its native web authentication mechanism which requires users to go via an Active Directory page to login (which can be branded and customized to look like my own).

I just...

Joining an ARM Linux VM to AAD Domain Services

Active Directory is one of the most popular domain controller / LDAP server around.

In Azure we have Azure Active Directory (AAD).  Despite the name, AAD isn’t just a multi-tenant AD.  It is built for the cloud.

Sometimes though, it is useful to have a traditional domain controller...  in the cloud.  Typically this is with legacy workloads built to work...

Troubleshooting NSGs using Diagnostic Logs

I’ve wrote about how to use Network Security Group (NSG) before.

Chances are, once you get a complicated enough set of rules in a NSG, you’ll find yourself with NSGs that do not do what you think they should do.

Troubleshooting NSGs isn’t trivial.

I’ll try to give some guidance here but...

Azure SQL Elastic Pool – Moving databases across pools using PowerShell

I’ve written a bit about Azure SQL Elastic Pool lately:  an overview, about ARM template and about database size.

One of the many great features of Azure SQL Elastic Pool is that like Azure SQL Database (standalone), we can change the eDTU capacity of the pool...

Azure SQL Elastic Pool – Database Size

I mentioned in a past article, regarding database sizes within an elastic pool:

“No policies limit an individual database to take more storage although a database maximum size can be set on a per-database basis.”

I’m going to focus on that in this article.

An Azure SQL Database resource has...