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Migration Plan for moving from MMA to AMA
Migrating from Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) to Azure Monitor Agent (AMA)
Ingestion Time Transformation
Azure Monitor: Free Disk Space % Alerts
How to Enable SQL Insights (preview) to monitor your SQL deployments
Azure Monitor availability with URL ping tests
Using resource-specific tables instead of AzureDiagnostics
Collecting custom text logs with Azure Monitor Agent
Azure Monitor Agent: Filtering virtual machine event logs using XPath
Azure Policies
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Enable Azure Monitor for VMs with Azure Monitoring Agent(AMA)
Enable VM insights using Azure Policy
Provision the CreatedOnDate Tag using Azure Policy
Configuring your Azure Monitor Agent DCR
Cloud Shell / Powershell
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Powershell
Azure PowerShell error when startup
Deploying an Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server
Install the Azure Monitor Agent
Provision a NSG
Install Azure Dependency Agent
Provision a virtual machine
Map a network drive
Resize a virtual machine
Provision a Storage Account
Create an Azure metric alert
Azure Internal load balancer
Creating a Service Principal
Deploy an Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server
Deploy an Azure Application Gateway
Storage Account + Container + Get account keys
Export app registrations with expiring secrets and certificates
Azure Bastion native RDP / SSH tooling
Install the ‘Workload.WLILinuxExtension’ Extension on Linux
How to create a new Resource Group with Tagging and adding a budget
Installing the Azure Dependency Agent using CLI
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Alert validations
Microsoft Defender for Cloud workflow automation
Azure Bastion
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Deploying Azure Bastion
Microsoft Purview
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Microsoft Purview – Landing Zone (Post 1)
Microsoft Purview – Artifacts (Post 2)
Microsoft Purview – Data Catalog (Post 3)
Microsoft Purview – Data Sources: Azure SQL Database (Post 4)
Microsoft Purview – Data Sharing & Receiving (preview): Azure Storage data in-place (post 5)
Microsoft Purview: Registration of a Self-hosted integration runtime (SHIR)
Logic Apps
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Azure Logic Apps: How to send an email with an attachment
How to start/stop a virtual machine scale set instance using Logic Apps
Automated monitoring Azure App Registration secrets using using Logic Apps
Monitoring your Azure resource deployments
Monitoring Brute Force Attacks in Entra ID
Azure Virtual Desktop
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Deployment of Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure AI services
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Speech Service
Speech Service
Azure OpenAI
Azure OpenAI Private Endpoints
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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Deploy an Azure Application Gateway with Azure Web Application Firewall
Azure Application Gateway
Web Application Firewall OWASP Core Rule Sets and Custom Managed Rules
Azure Front Door
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Azure Front Door deployment
Azure Function
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Azure Monitor private availability testing – Application Insights of non public URL’s.
Azure Function Timer Trigger Function.cs content
Azure Automation
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Using Azure Automation to Schedule PowerShell Scripts
How to start/stop a virtual machine scale set instance
Azure Automation – delete selected resource groups in a subscription
Terraform
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Resource Deployment
Terraform – Virtual Network deployment
Terraform – Azure Service Bus deployment
Terraform -Azure Service Bus geo-paired namespace
Fortinet
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Fortinet Fortigate (HA) Template Deployment
Fortigate end user testing
Fortinet FortiSandbox (HA) Template Deployment
Fortinet FortiSandbox provsion Azure network interfaces using powershell
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer (HA) Template deployment
Fortinet FortiManager (HA) Template deployment
Fortinet FortiManager single instance Template deployment
Trend Cloud One
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Trend Micro Cloud One scale set deployment in Azure
Trend Micro Cloud One – custom role
Trend Micro Cloud One (HA) Fallback
F5 Networks
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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition LTM in Microsoft Azure marketplace deployment
F5 BIG-IQ Virtual Edition single instance marketplace deployment
F5 BIG-IQ Virtual Edition single instance powershell script
F5 BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (HA) in Microsoft Azure
OPSWAT
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OPSWAT MetaDefender Core and ICAP Server Kubernetes cluster scale set deployment
Check Point CloudGuard
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Check Point CloudGuard IaaS High Availability Terraform deployment in Azure
Certificates
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How to quickly create a dummy / self-signed certificate for sandbox testing
Azure DNS
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How to host your custom external domain in Azure DNS
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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Deploying (AKS) using Cloud Shell
Azure Key Vault
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Provision a Key Vault
Configure key rotation
Configure certificate auto-rotation
Key Vault secrets – email notification platform
Encryption
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Creating a virtual network with encryption
Virtual Machines
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Default outbound VM access in Azure will be retired on 30th September 2025
Azure DevOps Services
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Deploy Azure Infrastructure using Terraform scripts, GitHub and Azure DevOps pipelines
Deploy Azure Infrastructure using PowerShell scripts, GitHub and Azure DevOps pipelines
Azure App Registration
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Exporting Registered Apps expiring secrets and certificates
Windows Server 2003
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Migrating Windows Server 2003 into Azure
Azure Firewall
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Backup your Azure Firewall using Logic Apps
FinOps
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Cost analysis with the Cost Management Power BI App
FinOps – Microsoft Cost Management AWS Connector
ARM Templates
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ARM Templates test toolkit
Azure Monitor
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Azure Monitor Private Link Scope
Power Automate
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Power Automate – deploy Azure resources
Google Cloud
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Setup a Google client App
Azure Service Bus
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Azure Service Bus geo-paired namespace with automated failover
Azure DNS
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