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Network Security Groups (NSGs) and Rules Implementation Guide

We were asked to come up with a guide on how to create NSG rule as part of the implementation for a client.   This will include a script used to set these instead of creating them via the Azure Portal. One of the many documents we had to come up but was useful. [embeddoc…
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Script to Delete Azure ARM Virtual Machine

We had a request to create a script which will take care of deleting a Virtual Machine from Azure subscription and perform the clean up of all the associated objects as a deleting the virtual machine from the azure portal will remove the VM object alone and does not delete the disks, vNICs, etc. We…
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Migrating a SQL Server database to Azure SQL PaaS

ver Migrating a SQL Server database to Azure SQL PaaS Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL PaaS service are compatible with each other, meaning that a database can be moved from a SQL server running on a physical or virtual machine to Azure SQL service and vice versa. Prerequisites and Constraints However, there are some…
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EXPRESSROUTE PROVISIONING GUIDE

Overview The following guide assumes that the user has basic knowledge of using Windows. Although some familiarity with PowerShell scripting and the Azure Portal would be beneficial, it is absolutely not necessary, as the scripts are being provided in their entirety and screenshots are shown as of where and how to discover the necessary components…
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Create Windows Server 2003 Custom VHD for Azure VM Creation

Pre-requisites The following prerequisites must be met, before performing the Core capacity check steps. Internet connection Valid Azure Subscription The person who will perform the below steps must have one of the following roles in the Azure subscription Owner Contributor Some familiarity with the Azure Portal would be beneficial, although not necessary Latest version of…
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Check Core Capacity for an Azure Subscription

The following guide assumes that the user has basic knowledge of using Windows. Although some familiarity with PowerShell scripting and the Azure Portal would be beneficial, it is absolutely not necessary, as the scripts are being provided in their entirety and screenshots are shown as of where and how to discover the necessary components in…
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How to configure Azure Network Security Group (NSG) rule for ICMP traffic

Since Azure introduced their new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) deployment model, i have seen their Network Security Group (NSG) feature evolve to be very good and similar to a normal web GUI of a firewall device page used to configure the rules. While working on an IT transformation project for a client in the UK…
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