Azure Policy Archives - Thomas Maurer

Audit server settings with Azure Policy Guest Configuration

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 08:10:25 +0000

In my last blog post on Azure Governance, I wrote about how you can use Azure Policy to keep control of your Azure environment. In this blog post, I will show you how you can extend Azure Policy to the guest operating system of Azure virtual machines (VMs), and Azure Arc enabled servers to audit …

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Azure Friday: Manage hybrid servers using Azure Arc

Thomas Maurer — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:22:41 +0000

Last Friday, I had the chance to join Donovan Brown on Azure Friday to talk about how you can manage and govern your hybrid servers using Azure Arc. I showed how you can manage and govern your Windows and Linux machines hosted outside of Azure on your corporate network or other cloud providers, similar to …

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Keep control of your Azure environment with Azure Policy

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 06:04:08 +0000

Keeping control of your Azure environment and your Azure tenant can be challenging. Azure Policy is a fundamental part of Azure Governance to maintain control of your environment. With Azure Policy, you can enforce different rules and effects over your resources, so those resources stay compliant with your corporate standards and service level agreements. For …

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Azure Arc – Cloud-native Management for Hybrid Cloud

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:13:27 +0000

Azure Hybrid is not just Azure Stack, it also includes a couple of other Azure Hybrid services like Azure Update Management, Azure File Sync and many more. Today, Microsoft will extend the hybrid cloud solutions in Azure and announced Azure Arc, which is designed to extend Azure Management to any infrastructure. In the new world …

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Developing Azure Stack compatible services in Azure using Azure Policies

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:12:04 +0000

As mentioned Azure Stack brings a true hybrid Cloud experience by bringing an consistent platform from the public cloud to the private cloud. There is a little bit of a catch, Microsoft Azure Stack of course only offers some of the Azure Public Cloud services, since for some of them you need to have a …

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