Microsoft 365 external sharing design considerations

Microsoft 365

Introduction The purpose of this article is to present Microsoft 365 external sharing design considerations. When designing your Microsoft 365 tenant, you need to consider a number of factors for allowing or prohibiting access to your Microsoft 365 applications and data to a number of internal and external users. This article discusses the following design ... Read more

VPN and Zero Trust clients

VPN

Introduction to VPN and Zero Trust clients VPN (Virtual Private Network) and Zero Trust are both approaches to network security, but they differ in their underlying principles and methods of securing network connections. VPN (Virtual Private Network) A VPN is a network technology that creates a secure and encrypted connection over a public network, such ... Read more

Stefanos cloud blog RELOADED

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My technical blog is available at https://stefanos.cloud. This version is the Stefanos cloud blog RELOADED. It introduces a new development phase of this online project and aspires to offer more in-depth and more up-to-date KB articles and design or operations articles about cloud computing and edge computing, fog computing and hybrid cloud technologies. The new ... Read more

Overview of Azure gateway resources

Azure gateways

Introduction A gateway is a networking resource which handles network traffic while traversing different segments of the same ISO OSI network layer, for example a default gateway is a layer 3 domain (broadcast) gateway for routing purposes. The term gateway can also signify an application layer appliance which handles traffic for specialized application traffic scenarios, ... Read more

Discontinued services in Microsoft Azure

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Introduction to discontinued services in Microsoft Azure This article provides a list of discontinued services in Microsoft Azure, as per the Azure service lifecycle. This includes services and features which have been discontinued, retired or deprecated. The below list shall be continuously be updated with latest updates from the Azure side. Many of these services ... Read more

The international phonetic alphabet

The international phonetic alphabet This is a must for any IT professional, when communicating alphanumerical strings over a voice communication. Details about the phonetic alphabet can be found at https://www.wikiwand.com/en/NATO_phonetic_alphabet. Symbol Code word     IPA respelling A Alfa       B Bravo       C Charlie       D Delta   ... Read more

Azure storage design considerations

Azure storage design considerations

Introduction When planning for the deployment or migration to any Azure storage type, there are a number of design factors to take into account. The current post lists Azure Storage design considerations and can be used as a design guide by Azure architects and pre-sales engineers when designing Azure storage solutions. Azure storage account types ... Read more

Azure infrastructure and application testing

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Introduction to quality assurance Quality assurance (QA) is an umbrella term which encompasses all application software and infrastructure quality tests which are performed to verify software application and infrastructure functional and non-functional attributes, including performance, scalability, availability and security. Azure infrastructure and application testing is a major part of quality assurance. This article includes a ... Read more

Top 10 sites with Azure news and updates

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Top 10 sites with Azure news and updates This article contains a quick compilation of the top 10 sites I have found to be extremely useful and informational about all things Azure. I am using an RSS/Atom feed reader to have a single pane view of the content provided by these sites. In a highly ... Read more