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Automating SQL Azure Server Firewall Rule Creation

April 20, 2017 Apr 20, 2017 04/20/17
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For this installment of the Premier Developer Blog, Application Development Manager Herald Gjura shares some PowerShell scripts from his toolbox to help automate Azure SQL DB Server firewall rules. Problem to solve This is the problem I am trying to solve. I usually work with multiple Azure clients, who have granted me access to ...

How to use Azure Resource Health API to gain visibility into the health of a VM, Web App or SQL Database

April 6, 2017 Apr 6, 2017 04/6/17
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In this post, Principal Application Development Manager, Rick Caudle, demonstrates how to use Azure Resource Health API to query the health of Azure services. As a developer, I am always interested ways to gain deeper insight into the health of the resources that my solutions are deployed to, especially if an API is involved!  I mean, ...

Azure App Service : Swap with Preview

April 4, 2017 Apr 4, 2017 04/4/17
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In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Nayan Patel, spotlights App Service deployment using Swap with Preview I was recently assisting a customer with an App Service deployment problem in Azure and came across a fairly new feature (Swap with Preview) that addressed the customer need.  App Services offer multiple ...

CMMi SM – Modelo de madurez de Arquitecturas orientadas a servicios usando Microsoft Azure

March 31, 2017 Mar 31, 2017 03/31/17
Pam Lahoud
We here at the Premier Developer blog are very happy to announce that our colleagues in Premier Developer Latin America have launched a Spanish language blog!  Premier Developer consultant Erick Ramirez Martinez has posted the first article on using Microsoft Azure to implement a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) maturity model.  ...

Getting Started with Azure Data Lake

March 24, 2017 Mar 24, 2017 03/24/17
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Application Development Manager, Jason Venema, takes a plunge into Azure Data Lake, Microsoft’s hyperscale repository for big data analytic workloads in the cloud.  Data Lake makes it easy to store data of any size, shape, and speed, and do all types of processing and analytics across platforms and languages. I’m not a data guy. ...

Building a simple photo album using Azure Blob Storage with .NET Core

March 14, 2017 Mar 14, 2017 03/14/17
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In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Chris Tjoumas builds a simple but powerful photo album using .NET Core, Azure Storage, and WebJobs. Introduction If you’ve ever wanted to create a simple photo application to display an album of photos for each page, Azure Storage is a great technology to use. It is actually the ...

With Azure, Certifications are hot again!

February 27, 2017 Feb 27, 2017 02/27/17
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Senior Application Development Managers, Justin Wendlandt and Doug Owens reflect on Microsoft Certifications and why now is a great time to consider updating yours (image) Microsoft Certifications have been around since 1992. They provided IT Professionals with the ability to prove themselves and their understanding of the technology stack ...

[Service Fabric] Securing an Azure Service Fabric cluster with Azure Active Directory via the Azure Portal

January 27, 2017 Jan 27, 2017 01/27/17
Monu Bambroo
In this post, Senior Consultant, Larry Wall demonstrates how to secure Azure Service Fabric Cluster using Azure Active Directory via the Azure Portal. To make sure appropriate credit is given to a great article on this topic, I did take some of the information for the steps below from this article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure...

Bots on Azure – Not as Complex as it Sounds

January 17, 2017 Jan 17, 2017 01/17/17
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This post is provided by Dan Simmons, a Technical Delivery Manager within our team here at Premier Support for Developers. (image) I was having a discussion with a colleague about how customers will help you better understand them.  I had asked if they had thought about putting a bot on their webpage to help them with this and she said ...