Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure and MFA Secrets MFA and conditional access policies are powerful tools for our cloud security, but they are full of tricks. I don’t... 27 December 2021 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Case Study: Troubleshooting Site Recovery A silly mistake, a site recovery error and a troubleshooting case study, let’s check how it happened. I was demonstrating... 20 December 2021 3 min read
Dennes Torres Linking a Virtual Machine with Azure Active Directory Microsoft has made it possible to integrate Azure Active Directory with Virtual Machines. In this post, Dennes Torres walks you... 13 December 2021 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure SQL: Enforcing Azure AD Only Authentication Some time ago I wrote a blog about the just released feature to allow only Azure Authentication in Azure SQL... 06 December 2021 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Dynamic Data Mask is now useful and no one noticed it Dynamic data mask is a very interesting security feature allowing us to mask critical fields such as e-mail, phone number,... 22 November 2021 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Dependency Hell: Past and Future Saying that I’m from the time of the MDAC would be to break the main rule of never reveal our... 15 November 2021 6 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Routing Access to Azure Services Azure is part of the Microsoft Global Network. Applications in the Azure environment can receive access from the entire world.... 25 October 2021 4 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Creating Views in Azure Portal Resource groups and subscriptions sometimes are not enough to organize the content of our Azure Portal. I was preparing for... 18 October 2021 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs ARM Template Visualizer Recently a new feature appeared in Azure Portal, an ARM Template Visualizer, capable to show a graphic view of the... 11 October 2021 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Template Specs: Storing ARM templates on Azure Infrastructure as code is evolving in large steps to improve the way we build and manage cloud infrastructure. ARM templates... 04 October 2021 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs 10 things everyone needs to know about Azure Cost management 1 – Azure Hybrid Benefit Azure services related to servers and direct infrastructure reservation require software licenses, such as Windows... 27 September 2021 7 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure SQL: Extended Events and the use of slash “/” Many DBA skills transfer when moving to the cloud, but you'll have to make some adjustments in many cases. In... 13 September 2021 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Using Power BI to Analyse Azure Costs Azure Cost Management is in constant evolution to help manage the cost of services in the cloud. Microsoft provides the... 06 September 2021 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs How Essential Are Azure Policies Policies in Azure are like Wally. They are there, but not obvious to find, hidden in the middle of many... 08 June 2021 9 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Using Power BI to Query Log Analytics Log Analytics is a basic tool for the entire Azure environment, I wrote about it before. The possibility to access... 24 May 2021 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure Static Web Apps: Bring Your Own Function (BYOF) Azure technologies evolve so fast sometimes we lose track of what’s happening. One day, a simple technology is created, on... 18 May 2021 4 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Saving money with Log Analytics Azure Monitor and Log Analytics are a very important part of Azure infrastructure. In my opinion, the adoption of these... 01 May 2021 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Custom Binding for Azure Functions Azure Functions are a great development tool, allowing us to create serverless software. However, one detail was bothering me when... 15 February 2021 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure SQL and Managed Identity Azure SQL has a close relationship with Azure Storage. Features like Polybase, backups, extended events and more make use of... 01 February 2021 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Power BI reading Parquet from a Data Lake Data Lakes are becoming more usual every day and the need for tools to query them also increases. While writing... 18 January 2021 8 min read
