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Illustration of the Custom IP Prefix onboarding process.

Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) to Azure with Custom IP Prefix

When planning a potential migration of on-premises infrastructure to Azure, you may want to retain your existing public IP addresses due to your customers' dependencies (for example, firewalls or other IP hardcoding) or to preserve an established IP reputation. Today, ... continue reading
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Dashboard featuring security posture chart, Firewall manage, regulatory compliance status, and workload protections.

3 steps to secure your multicloud and hybrid infrastructure with Azure Arc

As businesses around the world grapple with the growth of an industrialized, organized attacker ecosystem, the need for customers to secure multicloud and hybrid infrastructure and workloads is increasingly urgent. Today, organizations face an attacker ecosystem that is highly economically ... continue reading
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Microsoft Defender Ecosystem

DEFENDER FOR CLOUD Microsoft Defender for Cloud - an introduction | Microsoft Docs Defender for Cloud is a tool for security posture management and threat protection. It strengthens the security posture of your cloud resources, and with its integrated Microsoft ... continue reading
Bicep vs ARM Templates

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Comparing the Tools

When you go to deploy a server or any part of our infrastructure manually, how long does it take you? Can you do a manual deployment end to end without any mistakes? Now, how do you scale that? This is ... continue reading
Azure AD and Azure Identities and Roles Overview Dashboard

Azure Identities and Roles Governance dashboard at your fingertips

Hello, dear readers! My name is Hélder Pinto, I am an Azure Infra Customer Engineer based in Portugal, working mostly with customers in Western Europe, and I am back here to share with you some useful tools to help you ... continue reading
Azure Lighthouse - A service provider perspective

Azure Lighthouse – A service provider perspective

Hello folks I partnered with the product group and actual IT professionals outside of Microsoft to create a video series where we look at Azure Lighthouse and its benefits from a variety of different perspectives. Have you thought about how ... continue reading
Getting started with Azure Bicep

Getting started with Azure Bicep

As technology has evolved, so have the tools we can use to build (or rebuild!) standard, repeatable system configurations. I remember building my first Windows-based computer systems using an "answer file" to populate and bypass the "out of the box" ... continue reading
How to update Azure Policy parameters in Azure Blueprints

How to update Azure Policy parameters in Azure Blueprints

With Azure Blueprints (preview) you can add things to a Blueprint definition and apply them to your subscription - including required Azure Policies, role based access control, resource groups and Azure Resource Manager templates. But with some Azure Policies, you ... continue reading
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Using Azure Bicep to Deploy SQL MI into an Existing Virtual Network

Recently, I was working with a customer who wanted to deploy SQL Managed Instance (MI) into an existing virtual network with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Having some experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, I decided to fulfill their request ... continue reading
Introducing Azure AD custom security attributes

Introducing Azure AD custom security attributes

This public preview of Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) custom security attributes and user attributes in ABAC (Attribute Based Access Control) conditions builds on the previous public preview of ABAC conditions for Azure Storage. Azure AD custom security attributes ... continue reading