Azure Storage | Static Web Site Το Microsoft Azure ανακοίνωσε την δυνατότητα να φιλοξενεί στατικές ιστοσελίδες απευθείας στο Blob Storage, με το κόστος του Blob Storage! Τι σημαίνει αυτό? Για 1 GB χώρο και 100000 views το κόστος είναι περίπου 0,05 ευρώ το μήνα! Στις στατικές ιστοσελίδες μπορούμε επίσης εκτός από στατικό περιεχόμενο να έχουμε

Azure Start Point | Point-to-Site VPN In this post series we will go through some basic steps on how to start with Microsoft Azure. At this post we will see how we can create Point-to-Site VPN connection with Azure. If you don’t have an Azure Subscription, you can easily create a free trial by just

Azure Start Point | Your first Web App In this post series we will go through some basic steps on how to start with Microsoft Azure. For start we will create a Web App. If you don’t have an Azure Subscription, you can easily create a free trial by just going to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ Let’s create our

Azure Blob Storage… Recycle Bin!!!!!!! Remember all that red alerts when comes to deleting blobs? Ah, forget them! Microsoft Azure brought the Windows Recycle Bin to Azure and named it Soft delete. The soft delete feature basically is similar to the Windows recycle bin. Deleting a file from the Windows explorer, the Operating System instead

Free e-book: Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide Microsoft Azure is giving free a Strategy and Implementation guide for Azure. This e-book provides guidance, architecture and advises to implement and integrate cloud technologies. This guide is directed to system administrators, cloud architects and project managers. It has for chapters, the Governance, the Architecture, the Application development

Get early access to large disks support of Azure Backup & more Azure Backup’s 1TB limitation at last is over! Now you can backup VMs with disk sizes up to 4TB(4095GB), both managed and unmanaged. Also has improvements on backup and recovery performance that you can find here. Starting today login to the Portal, go to

Azure App Service, get data from on-premises databases securely There are many scenarios where we want to have the Web Application on the Cloud but on the other hand, due to various limitations, the database stays on-premises. Azure has a service, called Azure Hybrid Connections, that allows the Web App to connect to on-premises databases,

Για πολλούς, ένα πρόβλημα στο να χρησιμοποιήσουν την Azure SQL, είναι η δημόσια πρόσβαση. Μετά τα τελευταία Azure updates μπορούμε να χρησιμοποιήσουμε τα service endpoints ώστε να ασφαλίσουμε την Azure SQL μέσα σε ένα VNET. Ας ξεκινήσουμε λοιπόν να βάλουμε την Azure SQL μέσα σε ένα VNET. Ανοίγουμε το Azure Portal και ξεκινάμε να δημιουργήσουμε

Have you checked the update management system for your Azure and On-Premises server that supports both Windows and Linux operating systems? And it is completely free! Please find the full list of supported operating systems and prerequisites here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/operations-management-suite/oms-solution-update-management#prerequisites. Lets get started. The easiest way is to start from an Azure VM. Go to the

A complete guide on how to create a pfSense VM on a local Hyper-V server, prepare it for Microsoft Azure, upload the disk to Azure and create a multi-NIC VM. Download the latest image from https://www.pfsense.org/download/ Open Hyper-V Manager create a Generation 1 VM. I added 4096 ram, 2 cores, use VHD, add an extra

Azure File Sync is a new Azure feature, still in preview, that allows to sync a folder between your local file server and Azure Files. This way your files are accessible both locally at your file server and publicly at Azure Files using an SMB 3.0 client. Also the files can be protected online using

Continuing the Azure Security Center posts, today we will see a new feature of the Security Center, called Just in Time VM Access. As best security practice, all the management ports of a Virtual Machine should be closed using Network Security Groups. Only the ports required for any published services should be opened, if any.