Category: General
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Why you should use managed disks on Microsoft Azure?
Two weeks ago, Microsoft has announced the next milestone for the Azure IaaS platform, managed disks. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-managed-disks-and-larger-scale-sets/ Why are they so important and why you should use them? These questions will be answered in this blog post and I will also provide some more details about managed disks. First of all and this is…
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Azure Germany services URLs and IP addresses for firewall or proxy whitelisting
When you are working with Azure Germany sometimes you have to whitelist specific IP address ranges or URLs in your corporate firewall or proxy to access all Azure services you are using or trying to use. Some information like the datacenter IP ranges and some of the URLs are easy to find. Other things are…
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Azure storage performance health check script
When you are working with Azure IaaS services especially with Azure VMs, it comes down to one critical component you have to look very accurately during the design phase and that is Azure storage. It does not matter whether you going to use standard storage accounts or premium storage accounts. Why I am telling you…
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Using MFA in Azure Germany
Using multi-factor authentication as an additional security layer for your accounts in Azure Germany is very easy. Just login to the Azure Germany portal (https://portal.microsoftazure.de) with a Global Administrator account and jump to the Azure Active Directory blade. Next, click on Multi-Factor Authentication in the overview pane to access the MFA portal. There you can…
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SAP workloads on Azure Germany
Different SAP workloads are certified to run on Microsoft Azure and that does also counts for Microsoft Azure Germany. But which SAP solutions can be run on Azure Germany? First of all, all the necessary OS images are available in the Azure Marketplace in both regions Germany Central and Germany Northeast. But have a look…
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Microsoft Technical Summit 2016 sessions online available
The Microsoft Technical Summit 2016 took place again in Darmstadt from 6th December till 7th December and the sessions are available since a few weeks through Channel 9. Most of them are in German and only a few in English. -> https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/microsoft-techncial-summit/Technical-Summit-2016 My sessions were about “Azure IaaS Security” and “Providing test environments in Azure…