How to display all ongoing deployments on Azure

Currently, I didn’t find a user interface method to display all ongoing deployments. However, as always PowerShell is our friend! The Get-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment cmdlet gives you all deployments, whether they are ongoing, failed, or succeeded. As an input of this cmdlet, you can target the resource groups you desire with the Get-AzureRmResourceGroup cmdlet. For example, if […]

Save on Azure costs for testing and training

If you want to continue testing and training in Azure after the free 30-day trial, you have quite a few options to save costs. In this article I give you a few tips on how to keep your Azure costs low. Contents of this article: Free solutions Nearly free solutions Understanding cost basics Keep tracking […]

Azure ExpressRoute path VS a VPN path diagram

The official diagrams are not always very explicit (at least for me). Especially about where Azure ExpressRoute starts… In fact, ExpressRoute starts at the Inernet Service Provider level, not at the customer level. And here is a self-explicit picture. And if you want to compare the network path with Site-to-Site VPN or Peer-to-Site VPN, here […]