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Azure 101: Azure Resource Manager and ARM Templates

2023-06-07T02:26:43+00:00

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is a game-changer for users managing resources in Microsoft's Azure cloud services platform. A unified management layer provides a consistent way to create, update, and delete resources within Azure. Before Azure resource deployment, Azure classic was the deployment model. In the old approach, managing a solution required individually tracking resources and deploying them manually or via scripted sequences. Deleting a solution also meant removing each resource separately. Applying and updating access control policies for related resources was a challenging task. Additionally, tagging resources for monitoring and billing purposes needed to be more straightforward. Microsoft has deprecated [...]

Azure 101: Azure Resource Manager and ARM Templates2023-06-07T02:26:43+00:00

Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

2026-02-07T08:01:49+00:00

Bookmarks Concepts Roles Best Practices Validate Your Knowledge Azure Role-Based Access Control Cheat Sheet A role-based access control service to manage user’s access to Azure resources including what they can do with those resources and what areas they can access. It is an authorization system based on Azure Resource Manager, which provides fine-grained access management of Azure resources. Concepts A role assignment is composed of security principal, role definition, and scope. Security Principal - an object representing a user, group, service principal, and managed identity that requests access to Azure resources. Role Definition [...]

Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)2026-02-07T08:01:49+00:00

Azure Policy

2026-02-05T10:47:06+00:00

Azure Policy Cheat Sheet Ensure resources are compliant with a set of rules. Manage your policies in a centralized location where you can track their compliance status and verify the non-compliant resources. Select between built-in policies and custom policies. Implement proper guardrails and assess compliance across the organization You can use Azure Policy to enforce cost control and optimization by configuring Azure Advisor recommendations. Policy vs. RBAC A policy maintains compliance with the resource state, while RBAC focuses on controlling user actions at different scopes. Even if the user has access to perform an action, if the result is a [...]

Azure Policy2026-02-05T10:47:06+00:00

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

2026-01-29T09:42:49+00:00

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager Cheat Sheet Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is a feature within the Microsoft Purview compliance portal that helps organizations manage compliance requirements across their multicloud digital estate (Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud). It provides workflow capabilities to assess risk, implement controls, and report to auditors using pre-built and custom assessments. It calculates a dynamic Compliance Score to measure your posture and prioritize improvement actions. Important Updates Multicloud Support (May 2023): Integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud to assess compliance posture across Microsoft 365, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) from a single interface. AI Regulation Assessments (May 2024): Includes [...]

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager2026-01-29T09:42:49+00:00

Azure Service Health

2026-02-12T10:57:53+00:00

Azure Service Health Cheat Sheet Gives you a personalized view of the status of your Azure services and regions. Azure Service Health is composed of three services: Azure status - informs you of service outages in Azure. Service Health - offers a personalized view of the health of the Azure services and regions you use. Provides communications about outages, planned maintenance, and health advisories. Resource Health - provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources (for example, a virtual machine instance). Active events in service health: Service issues Planned maintenance Health advisories Security advisories Alerts & Notifications Alerts [...]

Azure Service Health2026-02-12T10:57:53+00:00

Azure Blueprints

2026-01-22T07:31:14+00:00

Deprecation and Retirement Notice Azure Blueprints is deprecated. The service will be retired on July 11, 2026. Azure Blueprints Cheat Sheet (Deprecated) Azure Blueprints was a service that created templates for standard and repeatable Azure environments that comply with an organization’s compliance requirements and operational standards. It supports the following resources as artifacts: Role Assignments Policy Assignments Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates Resource Groups It provides resource locking to prevent unwanted changes. Blueprints role: Owner, Contributor, Blueprint Contributor, Blueprint Operator With Blueprints, you have a centralized location for environment management, including deployment, versioning, and update. If your subscriptions are in the same [...]

Azure Blueprints2026-01-22T07:31:14+00:00

Azure Advisor

2026-01-21T08:16:51+00:00

Azure Advisor Cheat Sheet Advisor analyzes your configurations and offers personalized, actionable recommendations. It provides relevant best practices to help you improve: Cost Security Reliability Operational Excellence Performance Access recommendations are available at no additional cost. Note: Some recommendations, when remediated, may incur Azure service costs (e.g., enabling VM backup). The Critical Risks and Workload-based recommendations features may require specific support contracts. Key Features & Concepts Critical Risks: For customers on enhanced support plans, this new feature highlights the most essential risks to application availability, such as missing Zonal Resiliency for Networking Services or Operational Data Storage, helping you focus on protecting mission-critical workloads. Resiliency Reviews: A [...]

Azure Advisor2026-01-21T08:16:51+00:00

Azure Monitor

2026-02-04T07:15:32+00:00

Bookmarks Features Log Analytics Application Insights Pricing What is Azure Monitor? Validate Your Knowledge Azure Monitor Cheat Sheet Monitoring tool for your Azure resources and applications. A service to display the metrics of your resources. You can also configure alerts that send notifications when a threshold is breached. Features Metrics represents a time-ordered set of data points that are published to Azure Monitor. The metrics collected are stored for a maximum of 93 days. Share your dashboards with other users using Azure Dashboards. The data is stored as a set of [...]

Azure Monitor2026-02-04T07:15:32+00:00

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