This is part of a series on Building an Azure Dev Test Lab.

There are many things that can be done in Azure without setting up Azure Networking. But, there are also many reasons to setup a private Azure network. This article is a summary of what Azure Services are required to get Azure networking in place. More...

This is part of a series on Building an Azure Dev Test Lab for software development.

Azure has Data Centers located all over the globe. But not all Data Centers have all the same features or price structure. Before you begin to setup Azure services, make sure the Data Center you select for your Azure Products and Services support what you will need and that you know the pricing. More...

This is part of a series on Building an Azure Dev Test Lab for software development.

This is a summary of how to migrate from an on-site Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), aka Visual Studio Team Services, aka Azure Devops Server to Azure Git repositories. This article does not cover topics of Azure automated builds, automated tests, or automated deployments. These same steps would apply if migrating to GitHub Enterprise.More...

This is part of a series on Building an Azure Dev Test Lab for software development.

This is a summary of how to migrate from an Active Directory (AD) on premises system to Azure Cloud, how to migrate Active Directory users and groups to Azure using AD Cloud Sync, how to use a single sign-on for AD and Azure, how to enable Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for Azure authentication and set some appropriate security policies for MFA.More...

This is part of a series on Building an Azure Dev Test Lab for software development.

What is Azure and why use it?More...

On November 8, 2022, Microsoft released .Net 7. After getting Visual Studio Professional 17.4 installed, updating to .Net 7 was fairly painless.More...

Microsoft has a very large quantity of documentation on Azure. But most of those articles are focused on new large-scale production scenarios or migrating existing production scenarios to Azure. For a software development firm that is looking only to leverage Azure for software development and testing, and not expose public web services to the internet, where does one start?More...