ExpressRoute is a Microsoft Azure service that provides a private connection between an organization’s on-premises infrastructure and Microsoft Cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365. Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute was general available back on 2014. To connect to Azure ExpressRoute you need a direct line with an ExpressRoute provider. Now Microsoft announced

Azure Policy | Enforce tags for resource creation Azure Governance After the previous post about how to use Azure Policy to limit the Azure VM sizes, I continue the series of posts about Azure Governance with a video guide on how to enforce tags for resource creation. The idea is to explain through examples and

Σήμερα δημοσιεύτηκε η συνέντευξή μου με τίτλο “Το Azure εξελίσσεται” στο NetFax τεύχος #4230,  όπου συζητάω για τις τάσεις που θα μας απασχολήσουν στο Microsoft Azure & το Cloud!  Ευχαριστώ όλη την ομάδα που συνέβαλε για αυτήν την συνέντευξη & φυσικά Read more @netfax The post Το Azure εξελίσσεται & οι τάσεις που θα μας

Govern your Azure environment It was a day full of Microsoft Azure and technology, from both IT Pro & Dev perspective. A sunny day at Athens, with a lot of fun. For sure we had a great time! You can download my Athens Azure Bootcamp 2019 presentation, Govern your Azure environment, from this link: https://papostolidisgr-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/pantelis_e-apostolidis_gr/EUS8pnejNdNEhrm0GVe4qaYBkFH2s_ZZKqGh9AaDY0NTFw?e=nQaNSD

Azure Bastion – Jump Server as a Service Azure Bastion is a new Azure Platform (PaaS) service, at this time is still in Preview, that allows to have RDP and SSH access to Virtual Machines inside a Virtual Network directly from the Azure Portal. This eliminates the need to expose the Virtual Machines RDP and

Validate Azure Resource Move with Postman At this post we will see how easily we can move azure resources to new resource groups or subscriptions and how we can validate if the azure resources are eligible to move without initiate the move. The idea came from my colleague John Dandelis, who also helped with the

Azure VM CMD & PowerShell from the Portal Today I was trying to troubleshoot an Azure VM. This VM is behind a Network Virtual Appliance (NVA) and at the subnet it has User Defined Routes (UDR) that routes the traffic to the NVA. We was troubleshooting the NVA and it was not possible to connect

Azure Policy | Limit the Azure VM Sizes Azure Governance This post, Azure Policy, is the first of a series of posts about Azure Governance. The idea is to explain through examples and how-to-guides, the tools that Microsoft Azure provides to help the administrators to enforce rules to all subscriptions. Some examples of those rules

Athens Azure Bootcamp 2019 | A day full of Azure by the IT Pro / Dev community! This Saturday, May 11, 18 speakers, 2 concurrent sessions, 10 volunteers and more than 250 attendees gathered at the Gazarte Cultural Club for the greatest Azure event of Greece. A day dedicated to IT pros & Developers. I

Azure VM Antimalware Extension Management Azure VM Antimalware Extension Management has always been a tricky subject. You can easily enable the Microsoft Antimalware Extension from the Azure Portal upon the Azure VM creation or by using the Extensions blade. But after that, the management of the extension is somehow tricky. There is no way to

Today Microsoft announced the Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines in General Availability! Azure Backup for SQL Server is an enterprise scale backup solutions that doesn’t need infrastructure deployment & management at all. With Azure Backup for SQL Server you can centrally manage and monitor SQL Server Standalone and Always On AG

Get real insights about your Windows and Linux VMs & VMSSs performance and their dependencies with Azure Monitor. Integrate with Log Analytics for even more in depth analysis and retain the data over time. Health, Performance & Service Map of your VM in a dashboard. Deploy to Single VM For a single VM, go to the