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BlobFuse2 is a virtual file system driver available for Azure Blob Storage which helps accessing the containers/blobs on the Linux file system as a virtual file system. At present, we…

Introduction:   Over the years, Azure Cloud Services (classic) has played a central role in Microsoft’s cloud offerings. However, as technology advances, there arises a demand for more sophisticated and…

Azure provides a comprehensive list of built-in policy definitions (grouped by the category property defined in the metadata) which are owned and maintained by Microsoft (where the azure-policy repository contains…

Symptom: The count of records in the indexer and the index did not align even after activating the change detection policy. Even with record deletions, the entries persisted in the…

In this blog post, we will investigate the impacts of disabling public network access in the storage account and learn how to establish connections to an Azure Data Lake Storage…

On Feb 29th, 2024, the certificate feature in Azure Batch Account will be retired. To continue using the certificate with Batch task, user will need to migrate the Batch account…

The blog talks about how to leverage Redis Insights GUI tool while working with Azure Cache for Redis. We will look at some of the option what will help us…

With the impending retirement of the classic Cloud Service (CS) on August 31st, 2024, an increasing number of users have initiated the migration of their classic Cloud Service to Cloud…

Background introduction   Microsoft Entra ID for customers is Microsoft’s new customer identity and access management (CIAM) solution designed for businesses that want to make applications available to their customers,…

PowerShell and the AZ CLI are two command-line tools that allow you to interact with Azure resources and services. They are both cross-platform, meaning they can run on Windows, macOS,…

  The blog talks about how you can leverage the existing metrics and diagnostic logging to monitor or track the execution of lifecycle management policies.    To start, with the…

The blog aims to perform simple File storage REST API operations such as Create, Copy, Rename and Delete operations using CURL utility. Let’s look at some of the CURL command…

Background: This blog covers Permanent Delete of Soft deleted Snapshot and Versions in Azure storage without disabling Soft Delete option before the retention period ends.   Permanent Delete of Blob…

Who Deleted a Blob? It is sometimes useful to know who created/modified/deleted a storage blob. For that information to be recorded in a log the authentication must be done with Azure…

When Azure Policy starts a template deployment when evaluating deployIfNotExists policies or modifies a resource when evaluating modify policies, it does so using a managed identity that is associated with the policy assignment. Policy assignments use managed…

The previous article explained how user could configure and limit the access to Cloud Service Extended Support (CSES) only from specific Virtual Network(s) by using internal Load Balancer feature. But…

Agenda This article will provide a demonstration on how to utilize either SAS token authentication or managed identity from API Management to make requests to Azure Storage. Furthermore, it will…

Scenario: PowerShell script to disable Public Network access for Azure Relay   In today’s azure world, it is always better to do automations rather than do a Manual work. It becomes…

The blog provides guidance to perform simple File storage REST API operations such as Create, Copy, Rename and Delete operations using Postman.   Let’s look at some of the command…

When the cache is configured with a minimum of TLS 1.2, the supported cipher suites are limited to the following options: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P384​ TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256_P256 To obtain a list of the ciphers…

The blog is inclined towards troubleshooting clientothererrors reflecting in the metrics. It is a step-by-step process to understand what these errors signify and potential reasons. This will also help in…

Azure Storage supports for Secure File Transfer (SFTP) protocol in Azure Storage Account. We can use a SFTP client to securely connect to the Blob Storage endpoint of your Azure…

Azure Storage Explorer is a powerful tool that simplifies working with Azure Storage services such as Blob, Queue, Table, and File storage. While it provides a user-friendly interface, there may…

Background   This article describes how to identify the blobs with index tags and how to remove those tags using the Blob Inventory Service and Python SDK.    Approach  …

  Overview StackExchange.Redis is a high performance general purpose redis client for .NET languages (C#, etc.), and is designed for Windows / .NET SDK environments.On other hand, it is possible now…

Managing Azure Policies through Python SDK   Azure Policy helps to enforce organizational standards and to assess compliance at-scale. It also helps to bring your resources to compliance through bulk remediation…

Scenario  Suppose you have a specific requirement wherein the user should not have access to view the File Share, Queue, and Table Storage Services Data. The user should only be…

If you are using Azure Storage to host your website, you might want to enable HTTPS Only to ensure secure communication between the client and the server. However, setting up…

Introduction:   In the ever-evolving landscape of API development, dealing with legacy systems and formats is a common challenge. This blog post aims to assist you in leveraging Azure API…

The current Service Fabric clusters are currently equipped with the MicrosoftMonitoringAgent (MMA) as the default installation. However, it is essential to note that MMA will be deprecated in August 2024,…

In Storage Account, you can set diagnostic log to EventHub. However, did you ever wonder if you could have a centralized EventHub to take care of these logs? Instead of…

Introduction Since its inception nearly two years ago, Azure Container Apps (ACA) has added significant features to make it a relevant container hosting platform. Built atop Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps…

Background This article describes how to aggregate the Azure Storage logs collected using the Diagnostic settings in Azure Monitor when selecting an Azure Storage Account as destination. This approach downloads…

Azure Storage lifecycle management (LCM) provides a rule-based policy enabling you to efficiently transition data between access tiers or expire it upon reaching the end of its lifecycle. These policies…

The blog points to performing simple Queue REST API operations such as List, Create, Get, Put and Delete using CURL utility.   Let’s look at some of the CURL command…

Ensuring adequate access control is of utmost importance for effectively safeguarding your Azure Storage assets. The Access Control Lists (ACLs) of your Azure Storage Account assume a pivotal role in…

The Put Block operation is used in conjunction with other operations to upload data as blocks to a block blob. This operation is mainly used for uploading large files or…

Are you seeing logs where Epoch ‘0’ is getting disconnected? Does your consumer group consist of numerous consumers but only one partition? If so, this article will help you understand…

Background Information   While the our work environments became more and more complex, the need of automation is a fact. Therefore ,I made a demo on how you can automate…

Introduction:   The Azure PaaS product API management allows to expose APIs hosted on Azure App Services, also known as webapps. The process of importing and publishing the App service…

Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a web technology designed to enable servers to transmit data to clients without the need for client-initiated requests. SSE proves to be highly advantageous for applications…

Have you ever received an error message saying that public access is not permitted on this storage account while trying to access a blob?   Just in case you are…

Scenario:The NBA playoffs start on 15 April following the conclusion of the Play-In Tournament on 14 April. In this tutorial, we use the nba_api Python API Client for NBA.com to…

Scenario:Azure Databricks offers many of the same features as the open-source Databricks platform, such as a web-based workspace for managing Spark clusters, notebooks, and data pipelines, along with Spark-based analytics…

Scenario:The Propagate Access Control Lists option is now available in Storage Explorer 1.28.1 or later versions. It is a convenient feature to apply ACL entries recursively on the existing child…

Scenario:The rdbtools is a handy utility that can parse Redis dump.rdb files, analyze memory, and export data to JSON. This tutorial shows a quick example using rdbtools to generate report…

Background introduction API Management allow us to import a function app as an API, the UI offers a straightforward process to import the function app as described on this Microsoft…

Background introduction When a Function App is added as an API in APIM, there are some authorization details we need to consider while communicating from APIM to the backend function…

This article describes how to perform a REST API request in Azure using RBAC authorization with Postman. I will use as example the Get Blob (REST API) request.   Please see below…

Scenario: PowerShell script to get the total number of partitions in Event Hub Namespace.   You must be wondering how to find out total number of partition count for any…