When you’re working with Azure Resource Manager one of the first intent is to automate the process of creating an environment. The steps for this process can be varied, so I want to show you in this post how you can use Azure Automation as automation mechanism…
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Replicate Azure API Management accounts
These days I’m working a lot with Azure Api Management, preparing environments, making changes continuously, etc. That’s why I needed to replicate an account on more than one occasion in order to simulate staging and production environments. I read this article about How to implement disaster…
Assign roles to Microsoft Azure users
The current Microsoft Azure portal has the disadvantage of not being able to assign roles to accounts associated with a subscription to its management. Once given access as co-administrator is given access to all the resources of the platform and the…
Visual Studio Online, Microsoft Azure and PHP
These days I’ve needed to do some tests with PHP. What I wanted to avoid was having to install a local web server and an IDE that conveniently supports this language, so I chose to use Azure Websites such as…
Azure Mobile Engagement: Reach
In the introductory post I told you roughly what Mobile Engagement is and next how to generate useful information based on user behavior. However, if there is one feature that names the service is Reach. This tab allows you to…
Filter Microsoft Azure services by subscription in Visual Studio
If Microsoft Azure has become part of your life as a developer you may have more than one subscription associated with your account. For now, in order to separate the resources for different environments you use a different subscription (This is fixed with…
Azure Mobile Engagement: Analytics and Monitor
After telling you how to get started with Mobile Engagement the next step is how to generate useful information to know the application usage by users or errors that may occur in the platform. As I told you in the…
Azure Mobile Engagement (Preview)
Today when you think about developing an application you have to consider not only the desktop, but also think about the mobile platforms that exist today in the market. That said, you need to take care of notifications, user experience, user behavior, etc. if…
Azure Resource groups: Organizing and maintaining your Microsoft Azure services
One of the things that I see on the current Azure portal is that it’s difficult to organize services that you are using. Generally, what we do is use nomenclatures when naming services, so that it is easier to know which…
AdventureWorks database on Microsoft Azure in just a few minutes
Navigating between the features of the new Microsoft Azure portal, I found this interesting option when I create a new SQL Database service: Now, when you create a database on the new portal you can choose between different types of sources: A new database,…
Azure Mobile Services
I’ve been working with Azure Mobile Services since last year. At first I thought it was just a back-end service, where I could store data from mobile devices, but it actually goes much further than that and this is what I would…
Api Management: Convert XML to JSON using policies, without any modification of the Api!
Last October I posted a brief introduction to Api Management, one of the new services of the Microsoft Azure platform. Its first goal is to centralize the use of our Apis by others, but the fact is that it allows more: set quotas,…