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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Azure Identity Services is a key component of the Azure Cloud. The services that are a part of Azure Identity Services are what control authentication to, and authorization to use various resources. Azure Active Directory is a component of Azure Identity Services. In fact, it is the flagship identity service in Azure and provides users…

Cloud-based services and their adoption into modern business workflows have created a need to manage security risks. It only takes a small misconfiguration to cause a data breach leading to a bad situation for the company. Microsoft has taken security seriously with the Azure platform and there are many services that both protect your data…

There is a myriad of ways to manage and control resources in the Azure cloud. The most common way to do this is by simply visiting the Azure Portal which can be found at https://portal.azure.com. In addition to the graphical user interface offered at the Azure Portal, we have the ability to manage and interact…