Intro It has been a while since my latest post, primarily due to a lot of presentations at work and the fact that I got into the Microsoft MVP program. I have spent quite a bit of time figuring out what that means and participating in the Microsoft MVP summit. The MVP summit spread over three days, and during those...Read More

Intro In this post, I want to show you how to set up Azure Migrate with VMware vSphere. I will go through the entire process of discovering, testing, and migrating virtual servers from my home lab environment into Azure. It will be a long post with many pictures, but I don’t feel splitting it into a series makes...Read More

Intro Azure Template Specs is an option for storing Azure ARM templates inside Azure to ease sharing templates across your organization. Accessing Template Specs is controlled with RBAC assignments, making Template Specs security like most other Azure resources. Template Specs deploys resources in Azure and is...Read More

Intro Lately, I have been looking at Azure dashboards to provide a quick overview of services running in Azure. In this post, I want to show you how to create a dashboard showing the state of virtual machines, S2S VPN connections, and network peerings. Azure Resource Graph Explorer (RGE) The base for the dashboards in...Read More

Intro Building on my last article on integrating Azure DevOps into Microsoft Teams, I want to show you how to incorporate dashboards and kanban boards. The integrations can be helpful when co-workers might not be inside Azure DevOps every day but are using Teams. Some of the integration can also provide...Read More

Intro I want to show how to add Azure DevOps into Microsoft Teams in this post. I will show how to add the App to Teams and integrate it with the DevOps pipeline. The integration will display any pipeline actions, and it will also post any approval action into teams. With this integration, you can delegate activities...Read More