We have many ways to run our automation in Azure. One of these options is the Azure Automation Account that has been there for a long time. However, that old trusty Automation Account is not as p...

Azure Tags are an excellent tool for Azure Administrators and end-users. We can assign them to our resources so we can easily identify them, or apply automation based on tags. As such they indisp...

Today we are going to talk about Naming Conventions for Azure resources, and how and when we should enforce them with Azure Policy. This article accompanies the video I did for the Festive Tech C...

In this article we will go over the steps that are needed to register our local Hyper-V Server to a different Azure Migration project, and how to clean up existing project. One of the first steps...

Today’s blog post is about basic Infrastructure as Code principles, about Azure Bicep Language, and how and when to use it to simplify Azure resource deployments. Deploying resources in Azure is ...

Migrating Azure Resources between Resource Groups, Subscriptions, Tenants, and Regions was significantly improved recently. However, some things are still problematic. I am not going to try to su...

If we want to keep our Azure environment clean, consistent, cost-effective, and secure, we need to apply some governance techniques. Sometimes we can use a more restrictive approach. Sometimes we...

One of the best things in modern IT, especially in the Cloud, is that we can perform most of the tasks programmatically. That also means that we can automate most of the jobs, which is excellent....

One way to optimize the Microsoft Azure cloud cost is to properly deallocate and stop services when they are not in use. In case that we have a Virtual Machine that performs only specific tasks d...

On day 9 of this year’s Festive Tech Calendar, Sarah Lean (Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft) and I held a live Ask Me Anything session about Azure Server Migrations. Here are the questions tha...