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Today we are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Premium Blob Storage. Premium Block Blob is a new performance tier in Azure Blob Storage, complimenting the existing Hot, Cool, and Archive tiers. Continue reading Azure Premium Blob Storage public preview
In my experience in the field, I’ve been asked a lot about disk performance for SQL Server in the context of Dynamics ERPs (AX 2009, 2012 or D365 FO LBD). A question I often get is: How much IOPS do you recommend? Let’s step back for a minute here. An ERP solution is a complex… Continue reading Assessing your disk performance and your needs: Collecting relevant data (Part 1)
Working with Azure Resource Manager Templates provides you with a way to codify your infrastructure using JSON! In this tutorial we’ll show you how to get started with using different parameters along side with your template.
F… Continue reading Step-By-Step: Introduction to Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) with Azure Arm Templates
Problem and symptoms:
Cannot start the IIS admin service as it fails with error:
“Windows could not start the IIS Admin Service on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service… Continue reading Windows could not start the IIS Admin Service on Local Computer -error code -2146893818
While working on a customer inquiry, I recently investigated the details of our logic for IDoc support, including browsing which are available in the SAP system, forming the hierarchical view to pick an action URL from and generating the metadata / XML schema for the request-response payload. The following details are not a public contract,… Continue reading Logic App SAP connector IDoc support – going under the hood
First published on MSDN on Nov 26, 2018 We’ll continue to delve into the Azure Data Architecture Guide with our fifth blog entry in this series. The entries for this blog series are:
Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog #1: Introduction
… Continue reading Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog #5: Clickstream analysis
First published on MSDN on Nov 21, 2018 UPDATED: December 9, 2018As cloud migration continues to evolve, hybrid architectures that enable companies to take advantage of both on-premises and cloud resources are a valuable tool. Hybrid architectures a… Continue reading Hybrid Cloud Architecture on Azure – Portal
First published on MSDN on Nov 20, 2018 Written by Telmo Sampaio, Mike Wasson, and Christopher Bennage.
Connect an on-premises network to Azure
This article compares options for connecting an on-premises network to an Azure Virtual Network (… Continue reading Hybrid Networking Reference Architectures