
Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – February 2021
Whether you’re a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the ... continue reading

Azure Front Door enhances secure cloud CDN with intelligent threat protection
This blog post was co-authored by Jessie Jia, Senior Program Manager The Internet is the new corporate network and the fabric that connects users, devices, and data to applications of all types. It is foundational to how organizations run their businesses, engage their customers, conduct commerce, operate their supply chain, and enable their ... continue reading
MECM: How Site Maintenance Tasks Can Make Your Life Much Easier
Hi Everyone! My name is Fabian Scherer, Customer Engineer (CE – formerly known as PFE) at Microsoft Germany for Microsoft Endpoint Manager related topics. In some of my previous engagements I have been analysing and troubleshoot Site Maintenance Task related ... continue reading
How to get better outbound connectivity using Azure NAT Gateway
When your private virtual networks in Azure need to talk to the Internet, a network translation is needed for your applications to talk to endpoints on the Internet. Christian Kuhtz joins Scott Hanselman to show how it works and why ... continue reading
How to backup and restore Azure file shares
Recently Azure Backup announced support for Azure file share as a workload, in public preview. Sonia took it for a spin! But first ... a word about Public Preview A public preview feature or service is available as a beta ... continue reading
MEM – Managing CM Collection in the Cloud Configuration and Troubleshooting
Dear IT pros, As you knew it, starting with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager - MCM version 1906 (SCCM version 1906) you could enable co-management for Endpoint Manager -MEM (Intune) devices in the Azure Public Cloud, Azure US Government Cloud. The ... continue reading
Operational best practices for web apps on Azure App Service
Azure App Service hosts millions of apps, serves trillions of requests per day, and has an SLA of 99.95%. But what should you do when your app has issues in production? Byron Tardif joins Scott Hanselman to discuss some operational ... continue reading
Strengthen your hybrid identity with these new Azure AD Connect releases
Howdy folks, We continue to hear from you that hybrid identity is as important as ever, even as more apps move to the cloud. In Azure AD, our key hybrid identity tool is Azure AD Connect. This comes in two ... continue reading
The Poky Little DHCP Server and Finding DORA
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How to Remove at Scale the Azure Diagnostics Extension and its Storage Data
Hello, dear readers! Here is Hélder Pinto again, now writing about a topic that came out of my experience in one of my customers, who decided to stop using the Azure Diagnostics Extension in their virtual machine estate but had ... continue reading