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ARR and benefits for Premier customers

April 14, 2018 Apr 14, 2018 04/14/18
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Senior Application Development Managers Sanjeev Gogna and Charles Ofori explain Azure Rapid Response (ARR) program, and explain how it benefits Premier customers. Overview With today's technology, availability, reliability, and uptime are fundamental to success. To overcome incidents and interruptions, Microsoft offers Azure Rapid ...

Part 2: Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Windows Containers–Networking Tips

April 12, 2018 Apr 12, 2018 04/12/18
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In part 2 of 2 blog posts, Premier Developer Consultant Julien Oudot continues his networking tips about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) and Windows Containers. Building on the first post about VMSS set-up, Julien walks through how to communicate with containers running on nodes deployed as part of VMSS. If you haven’t read it ...

Ramping up on Powershell & CLI

April 7, 2018 Apr 7, 2018 04/7/18
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In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Danny Kolke, gives a practical guide on getting started with PowerShell and Azure CLI."For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." AristotleIn working with my customers I often run into those who want to get started with Azure but just haven't done ...

Part 1: Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Windows Containers–Networking Tips

April 3, 2018 Apr 3, 2018 04/3/18
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In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Julien Oudot teaches you how to ensure network connectivity when working with Windows Containers and Virtual Machine Scale Set in Azure.When working with Windows Containers and Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) in Azure, some steps need to be performed to make sure the networking connectivity works as ...

With cloud applications, performance is money

March 26, 2018 Mar 26, 2018 03/26/18
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This post is provided by App Dev Manager Reed Robison who examines the opportunity and impact of cloud application performance.  If you are moving apps to the cloud, it has never been more important think about performance and as a developer, the business impact you can have may be profound.(image) Early in my career, developers were ...

Getting started with Azure App Services Development

March 25, 2018 Mar 25, 2018 03/25/18
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In this post, Application Development Manager, Vijetha Marinagammanavar, demonstrates how to get started with Azure App Services.To get started with Azure development we need to have Visual Studio 2013 or later, Azure SDK, and an active Azure subscription. We are using Visual Studio 2017 with our demo. If using VS2013 then download the SDK ...

Integrating Logic Apps and Azure Monitor

March 8, 2018 Mar 8, 2018 03/8/18
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In this post, App Dev Manager Jason Venema walks us through a practical example using Logic Apps and Azure Monitor to track down who created a Virtual Machine. Have you ever needed to quickly find out who created a specific virtual machine in one of your Azure subscriptions? If it hasn’t happened yet, it probably will someday. Maybe ...

Enabling ALM Tooling in the Cloud for PubSec Customers

February 17, 2018 Feb 17, 2018 02/17/18
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In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Doug Owens explores cloud hosted TFS options for government organizations.(image) In sharing notes with peers within Microsoft, it becomes clear that many of our PubSec customers can benefit from improved Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and DevOps practices. The world-class features, low barriers to ...