Resource groups are an important organizational structure within Azure. As you create resources in Azure, you must specify one Resource Group that the resource needs to belong to. This is how you organize resources within a subscription. At the highest level of the Azure hierarchy, we have Management Groups. The next level down is Subscriptions, and then after that are the Resource Groups. Note that Resource Groups can not be nested, they are a single-level entity.…

A high level of collaboration is possible in Azure, even with guest users. B2B Collaboration enables guest users to access resources in a given Azure directory using their existing credentials. For example, external contractors, consultants, or partners may need access and with guest accounts in Azure, you can provide that for them. These accounts can be assigned AAD roles or Azure RBAC roles as usual. To invite guests you will need the Name, Email address, personal message, groups, and directory role.…

Groups in Azure Active Directory are used to manage access to various resources in Azure. Assigning users in Azure AD to groups is done by direct assignment, group assignment, or rule-based assignment. A group owner can let users join groups by choice rather than by assignment. Depending on how the group was set up, the admin may need to approve or decline new members. In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to create a group in Azure Active Directory as well as how to assign users to that group.…

Adding and Deleting users in Azure Active Directory is a common task. In this tutorial, we’ll go through each step of the User Creation process. Then once that is successful, we can take all of the steps needed to delete a user from Azure Active Directory. Finally, if we decide we didn’t want to delete a user, we’ll explore the Recover A Deleted User feature in Azure Active Directory.…

The Microsoft Azure AZ-104 Administrator Associate Exam is designed to help Information Technology professionals verify their ability to complete tasks such as implementing, managing, and monitoring identity, governance, storage, computing, and virtual networks in a cloud environment, plus provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources, when needed. Whoa, that’s a lot! Yes, it is. As such, this study guide is quite long, and only the most determined of administrators will make it to the end of this guide.…

Cost Management and Service Level Agreements (SLA) in Azure are important because they determine how much money it will cost a business to run various workloads in the cloud. In this article, we’ll look at methods to plan for and manage costs in Azure in addition to how Azure Service Level Agreements work in tandem with SLAs and service lifecycles. There are a variety of factors that can affect costs when computing in Azure such as resource types, services, locations, and inbound vs outbound traffic.…

Azure Governance, Privacy, and Compliance include things like role-based access control, resource locks, tags, Azure policy, Azure blueprints, and more. In addition to these, we’ll look at the purpose of the Microsoft Privacy Statement, Online Services Terms, and Data Protection Amendment policies. Regarding privacy and compliance, Microsoft has the Azure Sovereign Regions which include Government cloud services and Azure China cloud services. Protecting the data that’s entrusted to Microsoft by using strong encryption and access controls is a core tenant in Azure Governance, Privacy, And Compliance.…