Primer on Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor is the latest evolution of a set of technologies allowing Azure resources monitoring.

I’ve written about going the extra mile to be able to analyze logs in the past.

The thing is that once our stuff is in production with tons of users hitting...

Single VM SLA

By now you’ve probably heard the news:  Azure became the first Public Cloud to offer SLA on single VM.

This was announced on Monday, November 21st.

In this article, I’ll quickly explore what that means.

Multi-VMs SLA

Before that announcement, in order to have SLA on connectivity...

Virtual Machine with 2 NICs

In Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Network Interface Cards (NICs) are a first class resource.  You can defined them without a Virtual Machine.

UPDATE:  As a reader kingly point out, NIC means Network Interface Controller, not Network Interface Card as I initially wrote.  Don’t be fooled by the Azure logo ;) 

Let’s...

Refactoring Tags in WordPress Blog

I did refactor the tags of my blog this week end!

I display the tags (as a word cloud) on the right-hand side of my pages.  The tags grew organically since I started blogging in 2010.

As with many things that grow organically, it got out of hand with time. ...

Azure Active Directory Labs Series – Multi-Factor Authentication

Back in June I had the pleasure of delivering a training on Azure Active Directory to two customer crowds.  I say pleasure because not only do I love to share knowledge but also, the preparation of the training forces me to go deep on some aspects of what I’m going to teach.

In that training there were 8 labs...