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Bypassing the Azure Portal and going straight to PowerShell will provide you with more options for managing Microsoft's cloud. Due to Microsoft's mission to provide services to a "cloud-first, ...

Two cloud development services -- Azure Functions and Azure App Service -- are now available on Azure Stack, which brings cloud functionality to on-premises implementations. Azure Stack extends the ...

Another benefit of the hyperscale clouds is their operational expertise and their infrastructure design. They can spin up a new server instance in seconds, providing compute on demand. And with ...

Microsoft's Azure DevTest Labs service allows developers and IT administrators alike to provision and control groups of virtual machines (VMs). Azure DevTest Labs allows more control over Azure ...

Microsoft announced several new features that are now generally available in the fall update of Azure Functions, used for event-driven serverless computing in the cloud. To start off, while Azure ...

It's widely known that PowerShell can deploy Microsoft Azure ARM templates using the New-AzResourceGroupDeployment cmdlet, but it's not so common to use PowerShell to create and modify existing ARM ...

Windows Terminal is a consolidation of various command-line utilities such as Windows PowerShell, PowerShell, Command Prompt, etc. It lets you use more than one command-line utility at a time from a ...

Take advantage of Azure Functions to run small pieces of code that can be triggered by events in the Azure cloud. Azure Functions is the serverless compute offering in the Microsoft Azure cloud.