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Project FlashCast – upload and consume blobs simultaneously

An offhand comment by my business counterpart went something like this: "the partner wants to be...

Date: 07/25/2018

A Power BI Data Analytics Pipeline for ISVs

In this blog I set out an architecture for a data analytics pipeline that starts with an SQL Server...

Date: 06/14/2018

Bootstrap your Container-Based Azure Function

This blog builds on this Azure docs document, but starts with my own code rather than a pre-canned...

Date: 04/30/2018

Using Microsoft Azure Video Indexer

This blog takes the developer through having an Azure subscription to processing video with Azure...

Date: 03/26/2018

Microsoft Azure: Send Diagnostic Monitoring Data from a Windows IaaS VM to an Event Hub, Part 2

In Part 1 I went into the details of configuring an IaaS VM with a trivial configuration file using...

Date: 07/14/2017

Microsoft Azure: Send Diagnostic Monitoring Data from a Windows IaaS VM to an Event Hub

Use this article as a backgrounder on this topic. It deals primarily with monitoring Cloud Services...

Date: 07/14/2017

Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 5

For Part 1 of this blog series, which contains overview material, please click here. There are...

Date: 07/08/2017

Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 4

For Part 1 of this blog series, which contains overview material, please click here. There are...

Date: 07/08/2017

Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 3

For Part 1 of this blog series, which contains overview material, please click here. There are...

Date: 07/08/2017

Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 2

For Part 1 of this blog series, which contains overview material, please click here. There are...

Date: 07/08/2017

Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 1

Azure Monitor is Microsoft Azure’s built-in pipeline for searching, archiving, and routing your...

Date: 04/17/2017

High(er) Availability Solution for Single-Instance Roles

Some I.T. system architectures include single-instance roles (a single VM in the role), whether...

Date: 09/02/2016

Passing Complex Parameters to New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment inside an Azure Automation Runbook

An Azure Automation Runbook can be triggered by a webhook and this allows external events to...

Date: 08/16/2016

Shortest path to Azure Automation DSC + Chocolatey VM

Let’s create the smallest useful Azure Automation-controlled setup including one configured VM:...

Date: 12/22/2015

Continuous Deployment to IaaS VMs Using Azure Automation DSC + Chocolatey

The content of this post is now an Azure documentation page here....

Date: 09/22/2015

Developing DSC scripts for the Azure Resource Manager DSC Extension

PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) has been out for a while and there are lots of folks...

Date: 09/01/2015

Rapid automated deployments (large or small) in Microsoft Azure

Azure Task Manager (ATM) is a DevOps tool that enables you to deploy Microsoft Azure compute assets...

Date: 02/18/2015

OAuth Authentication using Python, REST and Azure AD

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) uses OAuth 2.0 to enable you to authorize access to web...

Date: 01/11/2015

Use Remote PowerShell to Manage Your Azure PaaS Compute Instances

  Update: Please find complete source for this solution here: WinRM-Azure-PaaS The Windows...

Date: 11/28/2014

Azure Hybrid Connections – Connect to Protected Resources

Azure Hybrid Connections make it easy to create secure connections between protected resources and...

Date: 11/21/2014

Azure Hybrid Connections + Java = Connected Mobile Apps

Enterprise mobile apps probably need a connection to some kind of on-premises resource, such as a...

Date: 11/11/2014

A Custom Logging Solution for Microsoft Azure

  Premise Have you ever worked on a multi-instanced service and needed to see a stream of logs...

Date: 10/13/2014

Utilizing the MPNS Push Service via REST API and Notification Hubs

Technorati Tags: Azure,NotificationHubs,REST,MPNS,Push,Notifications,Tessel,Node.js,ServiceBus My...

Date: 09/02/2014

Custom Probe + Port ACLs on ASP.NET Web Farm

I was asked recently how to take a Windows Azure Infrastructure Services VM (IaaS VM) out of the...

Date: 06/10/2013

Go Live Partners Series: Extended Results, Inc.

Founded in 2006, Redmond, Washington based traditional ISV Extended Results...

Date: 06/21/2012

Go Live Partners Series: Rare Crowds

Founded in 2012, Bellevue, Washington based Rare Crowds (https://wp.rarecrowds.com), is a SaaS Cloud...

Date: 06/21/2012

Go Live Partners Series: Cloud49, LLC.

Founded in 2010 and based in Anchorage, Alaska, Cloud49 LLC (https://www.cloud49.com) is a BizSpark...

Date: 04/30/2012

Auto-scaling Azure with WASABi–From the Ground Up

(The information in this post was created using Visual Studio 2010, the January refresh of the...

Date: 04/26/2012

Windows Azure Diagnostics–From the Ground Up

(The information in this post was created using Visual Studio 2010 and the Windows Azure SDK 1.6 in...

Date: 04/21/2012

Go Live Partners Series: Wealth Habit, Inc.

Angel-funded startup and Bizspark member Wealth Habit (https://wealthhabit.com/) is a Cloud Services...

Date: 03/29/2012

Installing Windows Features in a Windows Azure Role Instance

In this posting I’ll talk about my experiences and final solution to what is usually a simple...

Date: 08/15/2011

Automating Blob Uploads, Part 2

I tossed out a challenge in a comment I left on the first of this series – there’s a problem with...

Date: 06/14/2011

Automating Blob Uploads

In my travels I hear about a lot of patterns of cloud computing.  One that I hear frequently is...

Date: 06/11/2011

Accumulus Makes Subscription Billing Easy for Windows Azure

The Accumulus Subscription and Usage Billing System enables businesses to find more success with...

Date: 02/21/2011

Azure Email-Enables Lists, Low-Cost Storage for SharePoint

vorApps for SharePoint Online delivers an email enabled information management solution leveraging...

Date: 02/14/2011

Installing a Windows Service in a Windows Azure Worker Role

  It might seem like a giant leap backward to bother with installing a Windows service in a...

Date: 02/11/2011

Putting data in cold storage with Windows Azure Table

Sometimes the data that’s being kept in SQL Azure relational storage doesn’t really need to be...

Date: 02/08/2011

Accommodating Your Batch Window in Windows Azure

Certain functions of a system need to run once per day in a typical “batch window” scenario. You...

Date: 01/26/2011