Hi everyone, I thought I would do another blog looking more closely at custom web APIs in Azure AI Search. We will not look at entirely securing them with authentication or anythin...

This blog will explore the use of the MCP extension in Azure Functions. I will show you how to do the following:Create a simple MCP server that exposes a single tool called get_pet...

Running Azure Functions in Azure Container Apps (ACA) gives you the best of both worlds: the simplicity of serverless with the flexibility of containers. It’s a powerful way...

Hello everyone,In this post, I’ll walk through how to create prompt-based agents in Microsoft Foundry, publish them, and then consume them via Python. This approach provides...

First - thanks for coming to this blog. I've made a promise to myself that I'll start blogging each week again! Many people use Azure AI Search for RAG-based applications...

In this blog, I will walk you through deploying code to Azure Functions using the Azure CLI and the Flex Consumption plan. Previous plans for Azure Functions offered several differ...

In this blog, I will cover using private endpoints in Azure AI Foundry. At the time of this blog, you can only use a managed virtual network managed and provided by Microsoft. This...

(This blog has been in my drafts since 2022, but I thought it was worth posting!) - Yes, Azure Functions running PowerShell can query an Azure SQL database. This blog is not a prod...

Have you ever had an agent that needed to be installed on all virtual machines, and you wanted a way to do this automatically and the ability to view compliant and non-compliant re...

Have you used Azure Virtual WAN and noticed this setting? Bypass Next Hop IP for workloads within this VNet? What exactly does this mean? In this short blog, I thought I would go t...

Before we start this blog post, it's important to note that some customers may not require this since routing intent is now generally available (Link here: How to configure Vi...

Before we start, I'd like to say that this functionaility is currently in public preview but is so powerful and helpful, especially when enforcing new policies across an envir...

So you've deployed Azure Virtual WAN and want to start using Azure Bastion for remote management to virtual machines that are in connected virtual networks to the Azure VWAN. ...

So I recently did some work with Azure Policy, and we had a requirement to use the same policy but target different resources. I could have created a custom policy and used the fie...

A shorter blog post that explores using the custom script extension for both Windows and Linux Virtual machines in Terraform. It's slightly different for both operating system...

Have you ever had a requirement to find out who has a particular license across an organisation? What about a quick view of user accounts that have been assigned licenses but are d...

This will be the first blog around Azure Policy. I'm hoping, but I don't promise to have a blog about all the policy effects Azure Policy can do and the best ways to run, deploy an...

Sometimes customers will ask how we control log access in their Log Analytics Workspaces and ensure that only the correct users can access the logs for their resources. This is esp...

ABAC is an authorisation system that allows granular access based on attributes associated with security principles, resources, etc. Allowing access through attributes provides fin...

My first blog about a load balancer. (It's been on my list for a while), Many blogs already cover basic and standard internal and external load balancers, so I don't want to cover ...

Another blog about a Defender product in Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Have you ever looked at Defender for Key Vault and thought, what is it? Luckily, you've come across this blo...

I never understood Defender for DNS's usefulness before writing this blog. Microsoft Defender for DNS provides another layer of protection for resources that utilise Azure DNS's Az...

This blog will be the first of a few about migrating from Windows server file shares to Azure Files. In this blog, we will be looking at using Robopy to achieve this migration. Man...

Who doesn't like a tool that helps troubleshoot networking issues? Everyone wants a hand now and then, which is precisely what Network Watcher is about. Network watcher is just an ...

This blog will explore service endpoints, how they work, and why you may want to use them to protect your cloud resources. Another blog will be created to explore other ways of doi...

This blog will explore Azure NAT Gateway. At a high level, Azure NAT gateway is a fully managed Network Address Translation (NAT) service. NAT gateway simplifies outbound Internet ...

This short blog will cover important information about GPU licenses, specifically around VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) scenarios and some things to look out for. We will be ...

We are discussing Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM). It's a service that interests me. So, let's explore and see what it's all about. If you don't know what AVNM is, it is a cen...

This blog will discuss the new Azure Policy effect currently in public preview called denyAction. I've only found out about this new effect from this YouTube video here that Micros...

In a previous blog, we looked at using Data Transformation Rules with the Azure Monitor Agent; this blog can be viewed here: Exploring AMA Data Collection Transformations in Azure ...

This blog will go over Azure VWAN routing, propagations and labels. Our use case is simple, we have deployed Azure VWAN and one virtual hub. We have four spokes connecting to our h...

This blog will look at the Data Collection Transformations you can do with Data Collection Rules (DCR) and why they may benefit you. Transformations allow you to filter or modify i...

This is a quick review and study guide for the AZ-120 (Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty). If you want to take this exam, a short description can be found belo...

You can use Azure Container Registry (ACR) to create a private module repo to share modules within your organisation. You publish modules to that registry and give read access to u...

Do you want to store connection strings, secrets or sensitive information in a Function App and ensure it's only accessible to the application? This is where we can use Azure Key V...

I recently passed the Azure Data Engineer exam. This quick blog reviews the exam and what material I used to pass it. The exam is all about data services within Azure, and a quick ...

Using the Azure Monitor Agent and configuring a data collection rule to send performance counters to Azure Monitor Metrics allows you to collect performance counters from the guest...

We now have the ability to use NSGs and UDRs with Private Endpoints within an Azure Virtual Network. This feature has been requested over the last couple of years, and it's finally...

Sometimes you may need to view all the diagnostic settings for your resources and where they are sending them. You may also have a requirement to remove these at scale. This blog w...

Recently I had a customer who wanted to use Azure VPN Gateway for P2S connections for end-users which would allow them to access Azure resources through a VPN, but they also had a ...