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How to Pass: Azure AZ-900 Exam

Overview The Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 exam is the first stepping stone on the Microsoft Azure cloud certification pathway. Having recently passed the AZ-900 exam I wanted to share my thoughts and insights in this AZ-900 Exam Study Guide to help others pass the exam.
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Azure

How To: Set Azure App Service Time Zone

Background We recently migrated a legacy .NET web service running on-premise to an Azure App Service. During testing we identified an issue with DateTime translations. Our application had a reference to DateTime.Now. Previously, our app was running on-premise and therefore using Western Australia Standard Time (+8). However, following the migration to Azure, it was using […]
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Azure

How to Create a Q&A Chat bot using Azure Q&A Maker

Previously, when it came to creating your own Microsoft bots, it required a certain degree of knowledge and custom development to make things actually happen. This has all changed with the Microsoft’s Cognitive Services portfolio. You can now have a bot up and running in 10 minutes – literally!
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Azure

Azure WebJob status aborted? How to solve it

Overview Have you published a long running web job in Azure and noticed that it has terminated with an  ‘Aborted’ status. Chances are that the job has timed out. In this post I’ll explain what’s happening here and how you can fix this.
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Azure

Set Azure Static IP – Classic VM

Azure offers the ability to set static IP addresses for hosted virtual machines. I recently had to configure this for some of our existing “classic” Azure virtual machines. The process is as follows.
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Administration

Azure App Service – How to Enable SSL

Overview Traditionally when setting up SSL for an IIS website, you could generate a CSR using IIS to provide to your relevant certificate authority. If setting up a website using the Azure App Service, the approach is slightly different. There’s a myriad of ways of can do this, however this is the easiest approach I’ve found.
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Administration

Azure – Scheduled VM Stop/Start

Overview One of the most common Azure administration tasks is scheduling an auto stop & start of your Azure VM’s to save you a few $$$. Here’s a quick post showing how you can do this. UPDATE: Azure now provides the ability to auto start and shutdown ARM based VM’s. If you are however still using a Classic VM, […]
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