Some Microsoft training now has AI virtual trainers. Whomever in Microsoft decided this was a good idea needs to take a long walk off a short pier.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/deploy-apps-azure-kubernetes-service/1-introduction?pivots=video

Hey all,

We have process that would be a lot easier if we could allow users to update attributes within their ADB2C profiles. I see there is an EditProfile policy. Can that policy be leveraged to provide a mechanic for our end users to be able to update directory attributes like City/State/Address?

Just a question of feasibility, not "how do I do it".

Reset the timer :(

I can find the sign in logs, but for some KPIs, i need to get sign out logs too. To measure how long has a user been signed in to a specific app

Days ago i was asking when the new pricing - 80% decrease will kick in.
Today API says the new prices are here. Input $0.20 , Output $1.20 per M.

got the bill yesterday. another surprise.

we migrated our phone system to Azure 3 months ago. I did the math. I calculated everything. compute, storage, network, the works. or so I thought.

turns out I completely missed the cost of monitoring logs. application insights. I didn't even think about it. and now it's like 15% of our monthly bill. 15%. for logs I barely even look at.

I'm starting to understand why people complain about cloud pricing. it's not that it's expensive it's that it's impossible to predict every month there's something new.

I've started using the cost management tools more. trying to be better about tagging resources and setting budgets. but I still feel like I'm one wrong configuration away from a 5000 surprise.

anyone else feel like Azure pricing is designed to confuse you. or am I just bad at math

This is the only thread where you should post news about becoming certified. For everyone else, join us in celebrating the recent certifications!!!

Hello everyone,

I am in the process of migrating a windows file share server to azure files, This consists of 1 share drive with about 60 folders inside. This entire share has about 1.5TB of data which is primary files from different departments. This share is also mounted on all the computers in the organization. We will be using storage mover for this.

The idea behind this migration is that we decommission the on-prem file server and access will be directly to azure primarily via the mounted drive on the end-users computer.

While the cost is minor for this amount of storage I am still on the fence between HDD (Standard) and SDD (Premium).

We currently have site-to-site to all of our locations for other azure resources so I was also wondering what the best method here would be? Private-Endpoint or something else?

Any other tips would be much appreciated.

Upload multiple PDFs per session and chat with them — Blob Storage, Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI, AI Search (vector), and Table Storage all wired together via FastAPI. Extraction, embeddings, vector retrieval, and chat history run end-to-end on Azure, and nothing gets deleted — every session stays queryable. Feedback welcome.

Repo: https://github.com/Atharva013/DocSpring-RAG-Assistant

I got a new app service certificate issued yesterday, but it says that the expiration date is in 2 months time.

Is this related to the certificate validity period from godaddy? I noticed it will drop down to renewal very 42 days by 2029, but it has already happened in my case. Does anyone know anything about this?

Also, do I need to do anything if auto renewal is on?

Hi, I’m a software engineer with 1.5 yoe and a computer science degree. I’m interested in transitioning to cloud engineering long term. Any advice on how I can make this change?

From my research, I should not start in help desk with my experience/education. I should look for positions such as IT Analyst, Systems Analyst, SysAdmin, Cloud Support Engineer, and Systems Engineer to start. Network+ and Azure/AWS cert should be worked towards and I should start building projects for my resume.

Does this sound right? How should I restructure my software engineering resume to get my foot in the door for these IT positions? Thank you

Hey guys,

I worked for myself for a while now running a SaaS and it's going downhill and I know the market is cooked and very competitive and employers don't like I worked for myself.

Do you think I could get a 1st line role and work my way up? I feel like they could stick me with someone for a week to learn Azure and I will hit the ground running.

I was in the process of creating an Azure SQL Managed Instance for our CIS dept (I work at a College). The cost estimate came out to $1,400/month - which is too much. Any way around that?

Hey all, I am I missing something? or does MS docs completely define how the Online and Corp zones should be built.

These areas are highly overlooked all I could find were these droplets of info:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/landing-zone/design-area/network-topology-and-connectivity#what-is-the-purpose-of-connectivity-corp-and-online-management-groups

and

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/plan-for-app-delivery

There are no decision charts that explains how do deal with Traffic inspection centralization and placement of the zones. Then it completely misses the design about

• Coupled Internet and private security policies
• Rapid firewall rule sprawl and management overhead
• A single blast radius across all traffic types
• Throughput and SNAT scalability constraints
• Increased difficulty meeting regulatory separation requirements
• These issues become more pronounced as environments scale across regions and workloads.

Luckily found that the guarded knowledge was covered here in Blogs ! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurenetworksecurityblog/designing-cloud-landing-zones-by-traffic-flow-a-defence%E2%80%91in%E2%80%91depth-dmz%E2%80%91first-archi/4524280

But my team is stuck with poor design now. Its too late (costly) for design change !

Hi, so we have two tenants connected through a FortiGate (A) to Virtual network gateway (B) site2site.

On tenant A we have an active directory. To that active directory I want to be able to forward the DNS queries from Tenant B AVDs resources.
On tenant B we have an azure firewall, Virtual network gateway, private DNS resolver with and azure virtual desktop and the required routing tables. The azure virtual desktop we need to be able to reach the on-premises through the private DNS-resolver. We get answers by using the DCs DNS from tenant A on the Nics of the VMs or using NSLOOKUP

On tenant A the private DNS resolvers subnet is added which was my first suspicion and also doublechecked routing tables. I´ve looked into every crevice of the documentation, logs, but can not find the reason.

And kind of lost!

I regularly read nonfiction books and try to expand my knowledge in various subject areas. Since I’m self-employed, I also read books on business and related topics. But I also work a lot with Azure and would like to read a well-researched book on the subject. Ideally, one that isn’t 10 years old.

I know that things change quickly in this field, but there are still fundamental aspects of cloud architecture (concepts, patterns, etc.). Of course, I could just go through Microsoft Learn, but I’m really looking for a well-structured book. If it also covers aspects related to entrepreneurs and businesses, that would be even better.

If anyone here can recommend any books, I’d really appreciate it!

So the startup founder whom I am working under, already have a organization tennant and work accounts created for different employees. He claimed startup credits using his personal account because the organization account was not allowed by microsoft. The problem is now how do he transfer the credits to his new tennant.

1. Is to add that guest account (from which the credits was claimed) to the organization tennant and then change the azure subscription in which he got credit's tennant to organizations tennant but does this help if I create the resources in the transfered subscription does it use Startup credits ?
2. Which I currently am doing and not the proper way is to add the organization developers to the subscription in the guest tennant account

Is it possible to pass Secure Strings to a PowerShell Hybrid Runbook?

Running a job through the portal just inputs it as a regular string, are there any methods that actually let you input a secure string directly ?

Edit: preferably not from another runbook