Bypassing the Azure Portal and going straight to PowerShell will provide you with more options for managing Microsoft's cloud. Due to Microsoft's mission to provide services to a "cloud-first, ...

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.

Azure Automation can be an excellent PowerShell script orchestration tool. But as-is, you only have a limited number of PowerShell modules you can use in that environment. Luckily, though, we can ...

Storage is a finite IT asset, and organizations can’t get enough of it. Businesses are consuming more storage every day, and it’s up to IT to keep up. Rather than consistently add expensive new ...

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) will be set up by Microsoft for all Azure resource management operations in an effort to improve ...

Windows Azure Platform is the cloud offering from Microsoft that encompasses many independent services for compute, storage, networking, monitoring and reporting among others. IT professionals ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a PowerShell-based tool that helps detect potentially compromised applications and accounts in Azure/Microsoft 365 environments ...

Starting in October, Microsoft will enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Azure resource management actions to protect Azure clients from unauthorized access attempts.