This Doctor Shorts is a collection of workbooks. If you’re a partner who has deployed some solution for your customer, observability is key to your project. Workbooks can help you provide value to your customer not only by deploying the solution but also by providing monitoring capabilities. You can create your own workbook by writing ARG and KQL queries, but why reinvent the wheel when it’s al ..read more

We’ve come across multiple cases where customers want to send emails from Applications migrated to Azure through some kind of SMTP service. Though we’ve seen customers opting for O365 for SMTP relay, this can create issues due to throttling limitations in Office Service. Also, managing mailbox and license assignment on Office 365 console is a different story; customers would want to have seamle ..read more

I’ve come across a scenario where one of my customer using Azure SQL DB wanted to share their Database with other customer who was also hosted on Azure. They were struggling to establish site-to-site connectivity so that Customer B could access Customer A’s network, enabling them to connect to the Azure SQL DB via the site-to-site tunnel. Though this can be achieved, there are better ways to co ..read more

Mergers and Acquisitions are common but I’ve seen architects, sales and account teams sometimes find it difficult when we get queries about how the movement of Azure Subscription happens when both the organizations are using Azure. This can be within the same Azure AD Tenant or between Azure AD tenant move. Because couple of us sometimes are involved after subscription are in place already. Be ..read more

One of my customer asked, we’ve multiple Azure AD Tenants in our Enterprise enrollments and subscriptions associated with those. We wanted a simpler way to manage subscription from single Azure Portal and doesn’t want to switch between different directories to see the resources. I’ve seen Azure Partners utilizing this and few of partners are unaware of Azure Lighthouse as a solution. The same s ..read more

Introduction: Recently, a few of my customers reached out asking for an explanation of RI benefits. For example, if we have one reserved instance procured and are running two VMs simultaneously, each for half a day (12 hours), they assumed that since there are two VMs, each running for 12 hours, the total would be 12 + 12 hours = 24 hours. Consequently, they questioned whether the RI benefit w ..read more