Using Network Security Groups (NSG) to secure network access to an environment

Quite a few demos (including mines) ommit security for the sake of simplicity.  One area where you can secure your applications in Azure is in terms of Networking.

Network Security Groups act as a firewall in the cloud.

In this post, I’ll show you how to create a virtual network with 3 subnets:  front-end, middle & back-end.  We’ll then secure...

Beyond 2 concurrent connections in .NET

I’m going to document this once and for all.

The Problem

You want to an endpoint multiple times in parallel. Or maybe you want to call multiple endpoints under the same domain name. For instance, you might want to drill an API with multiple requests because the API doesn’t...

Azure DocumentDB Demo

December the 1st, 2015, I’m doing a presentation to a Montreal User Group, MS DEV MTL. Here is the script of each demo.  Enjoy!

UPDATE:  You can see the presentation slides here.

Account Creation & Adding Documents

For the creation of an Azure DocumentDB account, allow me to refer to myself in Creating an...

Azure Runbook - A complete (simple) example

I meant to write about Azure Runbooks (also known as Azure Automation) for quite a while.

I had the chance to be involved in the operations of a solution I helped architect.  When you get beyond trivial Azure Solution, like on premise, you’ll want to have some automations.  For instance, you’ll want to:

• Clean up data at the...

Move Azure Resources between Resource Groups using Powershell

Ouf…  I’ve been using Azure for quite a while in the old (current actually) portal.  Now I look into my resources in the new (preview) portal and…  what a mess of a resource group mosaic!

Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, you can’t move resources from a Resource Group to another via the portal…

If you’ve been there,...