Best practices

Explore the core principles and methodologies that drive success on Azure with our curated Best Practices content. It’s the blueprint for building and maintaining solutions that are not only robust and secure but also efficient and forward-thinking.

Best practices November 18, 2015 2 min read

Hybrid Infrastructure Automation with Azure Resource Manager Templates

On today’s Microsoft Mechanics show, Corey Sanders who heads up the team for Microsoft Azure compute, addresses the tech advantages of Azure Resource Manager Templates for IT.
Best practices November 16, 2015 4 min read

Expanding App Service Authentication/Authorization

Today we are expanding the Authentication/Authorization feature for Azure App Service to include new identity providers, new sign-in options and greater flexibility in access control.
Best practices November 12, 2015 1 min read

Setup Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration for simplified resource sharing with external users

On today’s Microsoft Mechanics show, our program manager for this service, Arvind Suthar, shows you how you can use Azure AD B2B collaboration to share app resources with a partner that has Azure Active Directory and share app resources with a partner that does not have Azure Active Directory.
Best practices November 2, 2015 1 min read

Transactional Replication to Azure SQL DB now in public preview

Learn how to replicate your data from SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL DB.
Best practices October 29, 2015 1 min read

Dev-Test Starts with IT: Create simple, cloud-only dev-test configurations using Resource Manager templates

Azure makes it easy to set up a dev-test environment for your applications and all of their components: web app, database, database server, storage, and any third-party services.
Best practices October 29, 2015 10 min read

Creating big data pipelines using Azure Data Lake and Azure Data Factory

This week, Microsoft announced the public preview of a new and expanded Azure Data Lake making big data processing and analytics simpler and more accessible.
Best practices October 22, 2015 1 min read

Follow Azure updates on the new Microsoft Mechanics

Today marks the launch of Microsoft Mechanics our official new show and video platform for IT professionals and tech enthusiasts.
Best practices October 22, 2015 1 min read

Dev-Test Starts with IT: Set up a LOB application in a hybrid cloud for testing

There’s a much faster way to create the infrastructure you need to deploy and test a tiered, web-based line-of-business application (LOB app).
Best practices October 22, 2015 1 min read

Sampling in Application Insights: How to keep the volume of your telemetry under control

Modern applications with many users can generate a lot of telemetry data.
Best practices October 15, 2015 1 min read

Dev-Test Starts With IT: Set up a SharePoint farm in a hybrid cloud for testing

As part of your hybrid cloud environment for testing, Azure helps you set up a SharePoint farm you can use to develop SharePoint applications, test for capacity and performance, or create an IT pro proof-of-concept configuration for learning and experimentation prior to deploying SharePoint in production.
Best practices October 15, 2015 5 min read

Cross-Database Queries in Azure SQL Database

This blog announces the new cross-database querying capabilities in Azure SQL Database and other improvements to elastic database query.
Best practices October 8, 2015 2 min read

Dev-Test Starts with IT: Set up a hybrid cloud environment for testing

Creating dev-test environments that mimic production often present challenges due to scalability and complexity, especially for hybrid applications and workloads.

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