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A Prescription for the Infrastructure Minds of the world
Azure IaaS Operations Guidance aka.ms/Azure/IaaSOpsGuide
BOOKMARK THIS! aka.ms/Azure/IaaSOpsGuide This is a collection of Azure Infrastructure installation...
Date: 04/04/2018
Got Power BI? aka.ms/Azure/PowerBI
The Power of Power BI! Moving forward into 2018, I am undertaking some special projects to create...
Date: 03/22/2018
Azure and Flow, better together! aka.ms/Azure/Flow
Recently while sitting and waiting in a waiting room, because that's what you do there, I started...
Date: 12/22/2017
Azure Government Resources aka.ms/Azure/Gov
As I have been doing more and more Hybrid Cloud Foundation engagements with government agencies or...
Date: 11/02/2017
Azure Stack @ Ignite!
Ignite in Orlando has already come and gone, and now you can watch many great sessions on Azure...
Date: 10/08/2017
Learn Azure - Resources plus Certification aka.ms/Azure/Learn
Azure and Azure Stack certification preparation readiness links. Azure Learning Resources Training...
Date: 09/27/2017
AzureStack Security aka.ms/AzureStack/Security
Hello once again! This will be an evolving blog, but many are asking what are the specific...
Date: 09/13/2017
Azure Resource Manager aka.ms/Azure/ARM
This content was previously on my https://aka.ms/Azure/IaaSOpsGuide. I've pulled it out to use a...
Date: 09/13/2017
Azure Security Resources | aka.ms/Azure/Security
Here is a collection of documents, videos and guidance for making a more secure Azure environment...
Date: 08/08/2017
Azure Stack Shortcuts | aka.ms/AzureStack/Shortcuts
Shortcuts for learning about Azure Stack, shortcuts for training and certification, and just...
Date: 05/14/2017
SQL comparison
This post is really just a place for me and others to have one resource to compare the following SQL...
Date: 02/14/2017
Back to Basics with Active Directory | aka.ms/Identity/AD
As my career progresses and I dive deeper and deeper into the cloud, every once in a while my core...
Date: 12/23/2016
One Dozen Azure Apps to Test for Identity with Azure AD
Just like a good book, you buy one and hope to then read it someday in your "free" time. So here are...
Date: 11/24/2016
Azure PIM - initial walkthrough and links aka.ms/Azure/PIM
In this post, I am taking another shortcut out of the aka.ms/Azure/Shortcuts page and expanding it...
Date: 10/26/2016
What's the difference? aka.ms/Azure/LoadBalancers
In Azure or on-premises, there are many different types of load balancers to use. While the basic...
Date: 10/24/2016
Everything you wanted to know about Azure Templates aka.ms/Azure/Templates
While my intent of this blog is to introduce a new template preview feature in the Azure portal, I...
Date: 10/19/2016
Identity Sessions On-Demand @ MS Ignite 2017 aka.ms/Identity/Ignite
Whether you made it to MS Ignite 2017 in Orlando or not this year, you may not have been able to see...
Date: 10/11/2016
Ignite 2016 Cert Prep Sessions aka.ms/IgniteCertPrep
Bookmark This! aka.ms/IgniteCertPrep Hello all. I have started to deliver my usual Azure Cert Prep...
Date: 09/27/2016
Azure Identity Updates Sept 12th - hot off the press
Hello all. Was scouring the Azure site for what't new, and discovered several new posts for...
Date: 09/13/2016
Got Azure? Get ARM Policies! aka.ms/Azure/Policies
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Policies In my Azure Online IaaS Operations guide...
Date: 09/07/2016
Got VM Scale Sets? aka.ms/Azure/VMSS
VM Scale Sets enable you to deploy and manage multiple VMs as a set. Instead of provisioning...
Date: 08/25/2016
Got Azure DNS? aka.ms/Azure/DNS
Hello all. I am seeing the need for not only one stop shopping for my Azure Shortcuts list, but...
Date: 08/24/2016
Bookmark this! aka.ms/Azure/Administration
Overview There are many different links out there that talk about how to administer Azure Resources....
Date: 08/21/2016
Bookmark this! aka.ms/Azure/Monitor
As my Azure IaaS Operations Guide continues to grow, I wanted to break off parts for their own...
Date: 07/02/2016
A new blog name and URL
Just a short post. I think Tangent Thoughts doesn't really apply as much as it did 5 years ago when...
Date: 06/25/2016
Bookmark this! aka.ms/Azure/Tools
I have lots of links covering Azure global and specific topics. For example, my warehouse of Azure...
Date: 06/22/2016
Bookmark this! aka.ms/Azure/DevOps
aka.ms/AzureStack/DevOps too! Hello everyone. Here is another totally tangent thought. ....Well in...
Date: 06/15/2016
Bookmark This! aka.ms/KeyVault
Azure Key Vault Resources If you have Keys and Secrets that you need to protect in Azure, we have a...
Date: 04/26/2016
Bookmark this! aka.ms/svm |Shielded VM resources
Shielded Virtual Machines (SVM) A Shielded VM is a generation 2 (supported on Windows Server 2012...
Date: 04/21/2016
Bookmark this! aka.ms/Identity/Wiki THE Identity Wiki - coming soon...
COMING SOON! As the leader of the internal Identity Communities at Microsoft, I am going to pull...
Date: 02/27/2016
Bookmark this! aka.ms/Azure/RSS | THIS, is how you keep up-to-date on Azure - The TOP 6
Time for another Tangent Thought for my newest post. Many people ask me, how they heck do we keep...
Date: 02/27/2016
Step-by-Step How to create new NSG in V2 Portal
While many of the details about NSGs can be found at https://aka.ms/Azure/NSG this blog will...
Date: 02/21/2016
Bookmark this! aka.ms/Azure/Shortcuts | Just scroll and click
That is it! A work in progress. But then, isn't Azure just that way? Always. Just want to make it...
Date: 02/04/2016
Azure AD Connect updates!
WOW! Lots of new goodness for Azure AD Connect! Here are a few that I have found in searching...
Date: 10/24/2015
Azure Recovery Options aka.ms/Azure/BCDR
This is a collection of Azure Disaster Recovery Options. By keeping the links up to date with each...
Date: 10/09/2015
Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) & Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) quick links
Sharing what I am working on once again...another Tangent Thought! Here are two topics that may be...
Date: 09/30/2015
RMS Analyzer Tool for Azure Admins
I try to blog on what I do for my customers. Since the last blog https://aka.ms/AzureRMSlinks was a...
Date: 09/29/2015
Azure RMS | Just what you need to know
There is a ton of information out there. I for one, always love what can be found in TechNet. But...
Date: 09/16/2015
Azure Active Directory Core Skills | Level 100
These are the fundamental skills and concepts that everyone should be familiar with about Azure...
Date: 08/20/2015
Azure Active Directory Resources you can use right now
Bookmark this! aka.ms/AzureADLinksAfter having done considerable work for Azure Exam certification...
Date: 08/19/2015
Ready for this? "Exam 70-410 Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012"
After I presented this session at Ignite, I wanted to start to add more resources to help people...
Date: 07/28/2015
PKI and Certificate Resources
Bookmark this! https://aka.ms/PkiLinks Email Great PKI Links Here Having taken some recent internal...
Date: 06/24/2015
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Bookmark this! aka.ms/AzureMFA As I make resources for my customers and internal community members...
Date: 05/24/2015
Ready for this? "Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions" Exam 70-534
BOOKMARK THIS aka.ms/certification/70-534 to get the updates to this page after I present this...
Date: 05/03/2015
Ready for this? "Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions" Exam 70-533
Please bookmark and share this easy URL :) aka.ms/certification/70-533 Were you at Ignite? If...
Date: 03/26/2015
QRG | Quick Reference Guide | Active Directory Federation Services | aka.ms/ADFSLinks
Welcome to this custom Quick Reference Guide. The purpose of this guide is to provide you with the...
Date: 02/22/2015
Install and Configure a Simple .Net 4.5 Sample Federated Application (aka.ms/SampApp)
I do this from time to time and often have to figure out what I didn't do right :( So this time, I...
Date: 02/20/2015
QRG | Quick Reference Guide | Migrating from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2
Here is yet another tangent thought totally not related to any other of my blog posts! Maybe some...
Date: 01/16/2015
Application Proxy Blog
Hello all. Another Tangent thought to add. I am now a guest blogger on the Application Proxy Blog. I...
Date: 11/15/2014