Azure in Education

Azure architect team's thoughts, common questions, tips and tricks on using Azure in education

One of the challenges education customers face when starting to adopt Azure is understanding how...

Date: 10/10/2018

OK folks, let's talk about that stage in a Database Server or Windows Server's lifecycle in EDU that...

Date: 07/18/2018

I had a university in Los Angeles who wanted to walk through how to recover from a secondary RA-GRS...

Date: 05/30/2018

@Chef Gillani The Sprint 132 Update of  Azure Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to...

Date: 05/15/2018

@Chef Gillani Azure DevOps with VSTS by Damian Brady, Abel Wang Container DevOps in Azure by Steven...

Date: 05/15/2018

We have many free Azure training offerings available to get started learning Azure. Here are several...

Date: 05/05/2018

Now that Global VNet peering has gone to GA I had a large university in California ask how to set...

Date: 04/24/2018

Scenario: You need to allow researchers the flexibility to create storage accounts in Azure but you...

Date: 02/24/2018

There is now a new way to change your default Azure AD in your subscription. I ran into a few...

Date: 02/16/2018

As you think about building applications in Azure, or migrating VMs to Azure, one of the common...

Date: 10/13/2017

Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions in Azure provide significant benefits that allow our...

Date: 07/15/2017

Background:  Education customers, particularly Higher Education customers, tend to invest in...

Date: 06/23/2017

Chef Gillani Many applications have regulatory, compliance, or other business purposes that require...

Date: 06/18/2017

Chef Gillani Move to the cloud with confidence The Virtual Machines Readiness Assessment tool will...

Date: 06/15/2017

Chef Gillani Ever wished you could have a Microsoft engineer personally tune up your Azure Virtual...

Date: 06/15/2017

Introduction With the rebirth of AI, the demand for computing has gone through the roof. If you...

Date: 06/01/2017

Introduction As an application programmer dabbling in infrastructure, I am always looking at...

Date: 05/15/2017

I did some search and assembled together a POC for a University Health Center and wanted to share...

Date: 04/26/2017

I had a university customer in the northwest ask me about how to get quickly started with the newer...

Date: 04/23/2017

This was a question from a university researcher in the Pacific northwest. The good news is our...

Date: 03/18/2017

Available this week there is a new simplified and optimized storage option for your Azure virtual...

Date: 02/11/2017

I had a few customers ask me if they could really move up and down in Azure VM SKU types dynamically...

Date: 12/14/2016

Workload Azure Target Guidance Oracle Database Linux or Windows VMs Oracle Database can be...

Date: 11/07/2016

Posted on behalf of Monica Reynolds, Azure Principal Solution Specialist, US-EDU Setting up Azure...

Date: 10/29/2016

Several of my education customers have deployed domain controllers running in Azure. They are asking...

Date: 10/15/2016

Creating templates is a powerful way to quickly deploy environments in Azure.  There are many use...

Date: 09/28/2016

A question that gets asked very often...and you are not the first or only one! There are several...

Date: 09/23/2016

Network Architecture between your Institution premises or data center to your Azure subscription...

Date: 09/23/2016

One of the most common scenarios that customers are asking to learn about is the deployment of an...

Date: 09/16/2016

I was asked by a higher education customer in Arizona some questions about ExpressRoute for their...

Date: 08/24/2016

As a new CSA I got to attend Cloud Bootcamp in Seattle couple of weeks back. The highlight of the...

Date: 08/22/2016

I was asked by a higher education customer in the southwest to explain the various Azure SQL...

Date: 07/19/2016

I had a university in the Midwest ask me how to create Red Hat Images for Azure from an on premises...

Date: 07/15/2016

Azure SQL database is a fast growing service with several features being added each month hence its...

Date: 07/15/2016

Azure SQL database is a fast growing service with several features being added each month hence its...

Date: 07/15/2016

You want run Windows 8.1 as an Azure VM without using an MSDN subscription. This currently is not an...

Date: 06/28/2016

UPDATE Sept 2016 : Azure RemoteApp is no longer available after Oct 1st 2016. A new Azure...

Date: 06/17/2016

I have had a few customers who wanted to whitelist or lock down the Azure IP datacenter traffic. The...

Date: 05/13/2016

Fantastic news for Azure education customers in North America and Europe (Zone 1) today. The Azure...

Date: 05/03/2016

My higher education customer in the Midwest was asking how they could control regional placement of...

Date: 04/27/2016

Chef Gillani Hello and welcome to "Enterprise Cookbook for Cloud Recipes". In this three parts video...

Date: 04/23/2016

This blog post is for organizations that have licensed Azure through an Enterprise Program (EP) such...

Date: 04/19/2016

Azure Data Lake includes all the capabilities required to make it easy for developers, data...

Date: 04/15/2016

In this blog we will try to answer some of the most common questions that comes to mind by every...

Date: 04/15/2016

There are a few questions about Azure HUB I have been getting asked about with education customers...

Date: 04/13/2016

This article is a consolidation of useful tips while setting up your own Azure SQL Database and...

Date: 04/11/2016

A university in the southwest wanted to leverage Azure in their classroom for some of their advanced...

Date: 04/09/2016

There were many new releases and features added to Azure last week announced at the Build...

Date: 04/04/2016

We update the Azure PowerShell modules quite often as we are now on version 1.3 as of March 2016....

Date: 03/31/2016

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