Azure Weekly

Michael S. Collier provides guidance on how to Lock Down Your Azure Resources with Role Based Access Control

Stuart Preston (@stuartpreston) announces that he's writing a book all about using Chef with Microsoft Azure

On the Docker blog, John Willis writes part 12 of his Docker tutorial, covering Kitematic

On Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) talks about using Scale Sets in ARM templates

Also on Channel 9, Marcel Zehner talks about Azure Automation in action

Alexandre Brisebois (@brisebois) writes about locking an Azure VM using an ARM template

Jen Underwood (@idigdata) writes about the Data Governance Series by Microsoft Trustworthy Computing

An old post - but a very useful subject: Step-By-Step: Recovering a Lost Azure VM Admin Password by Anthony Bartolo 

Freek Berson (@fberson) talks about managing your Azure RemoteApp application landscape using FSLogix Apps.

On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) answers the question are there limits on the mixing of singleNIC and multiNIC VMs in Resource Groups? and Orin Thomas makes the case for needing better VM checkpoint functionality in Azure

Donovan Brown explains how to setup a SonarQube server in Azure

In case you missed it, it's now possible to receive Azure incident information programatically or through email alerts using the Microsoft.Azure.Insights nuget package

On Channel 9, Maarten Goet talks about some of the new features and functionality in Azure IaaS

On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) answers the question can I use Azure Traffic Manager to balance traffic for FTP/other services

Michael Coutanche writes about some recent work that involved changing an Azure VPN Gateway SKU from Default to High Performance

On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman presents a session on the HTTP Platform Handler, an IIS8+ module which allows Azure to run Java but also provides a generic reverse proxy mechanism for IIS both in and outside of Azure. Scott also presents a session on Azure Web App Log Streaming

In case you missed it, custom-domain capability for Web Apps is now generally available

Kunal Chowdhury writes an introduction to Azure Mobile Services

Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) blogs about CloudFlare security for websites, a topic he has also produced a Pluralsight course on

'Vinoth' shares his slides from the ioT With Azure Enterprise Cloud Road Show 2015

Nino Crudele (@ninocrudele) blogs about making an API App which communicates with Event Hubs

On the Azure blog, Harish Kumar Agarwal - Senior Program Manager - Azure Data Factory, announces that Azure Data Factory now supports MySql, Sybase, PostgreSQL and Teradata

On Channel 9, there's a short intro to getting started with HBase in HDInsight

On the MSSQL Tips site, Tim Smith cautions that Azure SQL Version 12 restore times take longer and suggests some tips for dealing with this

On MSDN, Stefan Keir Gordon writes about storing data securely in Azure Blob Storage with Azure Encryption Extensions

On the Wintellect blog, Rik Robinson writes a guide to adding a message to an Azure Queue

On the Azure blog, Mingfei Yan, Senior Program Manager - Azure Media Services, announces support for Winevine through a partnership with castLabs

Josh Kealiher provides a guide covering Microsoft Azure Stack, Windows Azure Pack Installation Prerequisites – Services and Applications (Part 1)

On Brisbane Cloud User Group blog, AaronW (@aaronw2003) writes a comparison of Microsoft Azure Active Directory basic vs Azure Active Directory Premium

On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) answers the question does Active Directory keep a log of all machines a user logs onto?

On MSDN, Tom Hollander writes about authenticating to Azure Resource Manager using AAD and certificates