Flow: Tell me how long does it take to get to the Office
Simple fact of life: One goes to work and is subject to the everyday hassles of the industrial existence: Traffic and the normal inconveniences of our environment, it’s a good… Read More →
Understanding Availability Zones
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- by Roberto Lopez
Let’s recap some of the principles of Cloud computing design: High Availability Scalability Redundancy Platforms like AWS and Azure have a solid way to deal with these requirements. The were… Read More →
What Cloud Computing is
- Categories: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computers, IaaS, Learning, Office 365, PaaS, SaaS •
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- by Roberto Lopez
It is normal for different people to have different understandings of what Cloud Computing is. I will detail the basics below: Definition According to the The National Institute of Technology… Read More →
Let’s Encrypt Certificates on the Azure Application Gateway
The Security Principles Quoting from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3) : The Web’s trustworthiness has become critical to its success Furthermore, confidentiality — while arguably not always strictly necessary… Read More →
Converting an Office 365 Domain from Federated to Managed
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- Tags: ADFS, Office 365, Powershell, SSO •
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- by Roberto Lopez
Background About 3 years or so I was running Exchange On-prem with a single instance of AD for the allthingscloud.info domain. It was mainly a lab that I used to… Read More →
Hosting a Static Website using an Azure Storage Account
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- Tags: Azure, blob, storage, website •
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- by Roberto Lopez
Microsoft announced the ability to host an static website on a Storage account (BLOB), in preview as of July 2018. In a similar way it can be done in AWS’s… Read More →
Running on Containers
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- by Roberto Lopez
I’ve moved to containers, finally. I’ve tried a couple of times unsucesfully. This time I got right, also because containers have matured enough. The first time I tried was 2… Read More →
Running the Linux Subsystem inside an Azure Windows 10 VM
- Categories: Azure, Cloud, Computers, IaaS, Linux, Microsoft, Powershell, Windows •
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- by Roberto Lopez
What is it? The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run Linux environments — including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications — directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of… Read More →
Single Sign-on using Azure AD for On-Premise Dynamics NAV
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- by Roberto Lopez
Background I was working on a Design/Implementation for Dynamics NAV to be used as Payroll and Human Resources system. The customer originally didn’t think about integrating it with Azure… Read More →
Updating the timezone of a CentOS VM in Azure
Just the quick manual process of updating the Kernel for a Centos VM running on Azure. If created from the portal a VM will have the UTC time zone by… Read More →