MFA (Multi-factor authentication) has become a required security measure with regards to work and personal accounts. In this quick article, I talk about “Security Defaults” which give you the option to enable MFA on Azure but with quite a few limitations. There is a misconception that within Azure, You need to purchase an Azure AD
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Since we are now in the era of digital conferences and meetups, Microsoft’s popular Build conference turned digital too with the event being free for everyone and the first 1000 registrants getting a sweet Swag box from Microsoft. The keynote by Satya Nadella was as usual on-point with the current situation we are in and
Again this year, I had the honour and pleasure to give a workshop to 4th-year Software Engineering students at my alma-mater regarding Azure & DevOps. The Slideshow is presented below. Unfortunately due to the events unfolding right now around the world, this workshop had to be virtual but it was no less fun, I just
Right after university, I was lucky enough to start working with IBM. Back then, IBM had a very friendly WFH (Work From Home) policy, and although I lived 5 minutes away from the IBM lab (5 minutes walking 🙂 ), I made sure I leveraged that policy from time-to-time. As for my current position, it
Introduction As an Azure SME at my current company, I am usually tasked with interviewing new candidates and assessing their Azure Technical skills. When I googled/binged Azure Interview questions, I noticed that there are very few resources for Azure (lots for AWS) and most of them are outdated. As the second largest public Cloud provider
Introduction: Back in August, Microsoft GAed Python Support for Azure functions. Ever since then, I was trying to get a small hands-on tutorial blogged to demo that and how you can use Visual Studio Code to do the full deployment for you. After a quick Google/Bing search, I could tell that there are many demos
I recall back in December 2017, I was 5 months onto my new job at ICF Next and just fully taken over a major Azure customer that had a critical web application hosted on Azure Classic. We had started hearing about meltdown and spectre earlier in the week and I also recall reading a Microsoft
Summary As of November 4th, Azure Bastion went GA but keep in mind that as of right now, it is only available in 6 Azure regions listed below (the link to get the latest info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bastion/bastion-create-host-portal) West US East US West Europe South Central US Australia East Japan East What does that mean, it means
Summary This year, I again had the great opportunity to go to Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida. I was not sure I was going to make it due to this horrible flu me and my wife caught a week before but as soon as I told my body that I might miss a Microsoft conference,
Today, I took the AZ-300 (Microsoft Azure Technologies) and passed with the best score so far in any certification exam I took. As many of you know, AZ-300 is the first exam of the two exams required to get the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert role. After taking the exam, it seems like the
