Overview of Microsoft Azure Security Tools

Microsoft Security Portal

Microsoft Azure Security Tools Besides the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), Microsoft offers a handful of security related tools and APIs which are available via Web-based consoles, Microsoft Graph API and Powershell. By navigating to https://security.microsoft.com/info, you should be able to utilize all available security tools and consoles as described below. Microsoft 365 security center. … Read more

The new Windows Server 2022

Windows Server 2022 Preview

New Windows Server 2022 announcement On March 2nd 2021 Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 is in preview, the next release in our Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), which will be generally available later this calendar year. It builds on Windows Server 2019, our fastest adopted Windows Server ever. This release includes advanced multi-layer security, hybrid … Read more

Azure App Service design considerations part 1

Azure App Service

Overview Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS service in Azure. The Azure App Service can be used to modernize your Web apps, API apps and mobile apps and can work with various software development frameworks and runtime stacks. When designing an offer and implementation for migrating a customer’s on-prem application to Azure App Service, … Read more

Azure load balancing service options

Azure Front Door

Azure provides a suite of fully managed load-balancing solutions for your scenarios. Azure Front Door Azure Front Door (AFD) works at Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS layer) using anycast protocol with split TCP and Microsoft’s global network to improve global connectivity. Based on your routing method you can ensure that Front Door will route your client requests … Read more

Azure AI and machine learning services overview

Microsoft Azure

Introduction The current post attempts to present an overview of the Azure AI and Machine Learning services, as of late October 2020. Given the dynamic nature of public clouds, this list will most likely change soon in the near future but nevertheless acts as a general point of reference when discussing Azure AI and machine … Read more

Cloud architecture diagram software

Microsoft Visio is one of the leading software packages for data center diagram design. A Visio stencil is a collection of masters associated with a particular Microsoft Visio drawing type, or template. By default, stencils that open with a template are docked on the left side of the drawing window. You can open stencil (.vss) … Read more

Azure subscription and service limits, quotas, and constraints

If you want to raise the limit or quota above the Default Limit, open an online customer support request at no charge. The limits can’t be raised above the Maximum Limit value shown in the following tables. If there is no Maximum Limit column, then the resource doesn’t have adjustable limits. It is now possible to combine multiple Azure resources in … Read more