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AZURE INFORMATION PACK
TOP PARTNER QUESTIONS
Administration/Management
• Where can I get more information about workarounds if the portal is not working? Please click on the links below to check if all services are working properly. Review the current Azure status
• Where can I get more information how to associate the correct Azure AD Directory with Azure Subscription? Every Azure subscription has a trust relationship with an Azure AD instance. This means that it trusts that directory to authenticate users, services, and devices. Learn more about how Azure subscriptions are associated with Azure Read an overview of the Azure AD directory
• Where can I get more information how to delete resources?
Please click on the links below to get more information how to delete resources. Read up on how to use Azure Resource Manager Learn more about using the Azure Portal to deploy and manage your Azure resources
• Where can I get more information on how to improve the disk performance? Please click on the link below to get more information on how to improve the disk performance. Read the article on Premium Storage: High-Performance Storage for Azure Virtual Machine Workloads
• Where can I get more information how to reset wrong accounts associated with Azure Subscriptions due to cached credentials? Please click on the link below to get more information how to reset wrong accounts associated with Azure Subscriptions due to cached credentials. Learn how to create a virtual network with a site-to-site connection
• Where can I get more information how to determine the reason of excessive consumption? Please click on the links below to get more information how to determine the reason of excessive consumption. Read up on how to understand your Azure bill Read the FAQ referring billing and subscription
• Where can I get consulting for PowerShell?
Azure PowerShell is a set of modules that provide cmdlets to manage Azure with Windows PowerShell. You can use the cmdlets to create, test, deploy, and manage solutions and services delivered through the Azure platform. Get started with Azure PowerShell cmdlets Receive an overview of Azure PowerShell cmdlets
Demos and Service Overview
• Where can I find an Azure feature demo? Please click on the link below to find an Azure feature demo. List of Microsoft Azure Courses
• Where can I find Azure VM auto scaling deployment guide?
Click on the link below for creating a Windows virtual machine scale set using Azure PowerShell. Learn how to scale an Azure VM deployment guide step by step
• Where can I find more information about Azure Storage latency? Click on the link below to test Azure Storage Latency. Try the Azure Storage Latency Test
• How can I deploy Azure?
Click on the link below to find information about how to deploy Azure. Find an instruction for deploying resources with Resource Management templates and Azure portal
• How do I use Starter Kits and IUR in my daily business?
Click on the link below to learn how to use Starter Kits and IUR in the daily business. Learn how to accelerate your business
• How do I configure a backup using Agent Vault?
Click on the link below to learn how to configure a backup using Agent Vault. Get an overview of Azure Backup
• Where can I get Azure DR references? Click on the links below to get Azure DR references. Get information about Medical Center Gains Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery Search for customer stories
• How can Azure service be leveraged to fulfill my customers’ requirements to remove IT
locally? Click on the links below to learn how Azure can be leveraged to fulfil customers’ requirements to remove IT locally. Get an overview of what is Azure Power your business apps with Azure
• Where can I find an overall service overview of Azure?
Please click on the link below to I find an overall service overview of Azure. Visit the overview of all Azure products
• Where can I get help to estimate cost of Azure hosted solution?
Please click on the link below to get help to estimate cost of Azure hosted solution. Try the Azure pricing calculator
• Where can I find more information about any differences between China Azure and Global Azure? Please click on the link below to find more information about any differences between China Azure and Global Azure. Get a comparison between Azure regions
• Where can I get localized content about Azure VM? Please click on the link below to learn to provision, migrate, and manage your Windows virtual machines. Have a look at Windows Virtual Machines videos
• Where can I get a calculation about Azure fees? Please click on the links below to get a calculation about Azure fees. Get Azure pricing details Try the Azure pricing calculator
• Where can I get more information about Azure VM networking? An Azure virtual network (VNet) is a representation of your own network in the cloud. It is a logical isolation of the Azure cloud dedicated to your subscription. Read the overview the Azure Virtual Network Have a look at Virtual Network videos Request for help in Networking Blog
• Where can I get more information how to use Azure Backup? Azure Backup is the service that you use to back up and restore your data in the Microsoft cloud. Read the overview on Azure Backup Learn how to use Azure Backup
• Where can I get more information how to use Azure Site Recovery?
Site Recovery helps to keep corporate workloads and apps up and running when planned and unplanned outages occur. Read the overview on Azure Site Recovery Find instructions on how Site Recovery works
Deployment/Configuration
• Where can I get further information about the virtual network and storage in Azure? An Azure virtual network (VNet) is a representation of your own network in the cloud. It is a logical isolation of the Azure cloud dedicated to your subscription. You can fully control the IP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies, and route tables within this network. Read an overview on the virtual network Get an introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage
• What can I do if I fail over to Azure? This article includes frequently asked questions about Azure Site Recovery. Get information about what to do if you fail over to Azure
• Where can I find more information about Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)? Click on the links below to get information about Business continuity and disaster recovery. Learn about the IT Disaster Recovery Plan Get to know what Site Recovery is
• How do I create Runbooks for automation?
Click on the link below to inform you about the fundamentals of Azure identity management. Learn how to create Runbooks for automation
• How do I set up Azure AD Connector to filter disabled user accounts to be in sync with
cloud side? Azure AD Connect Custom settings is used when you want more options for the installation. It is used if you have multiple forests or if you want to configure optional features not covered in the express installation. Get more information about Custom installation of Azure AD Connect
• Where can I get more information how to connect my On Premises Sites with Azure?
A cross-premises Azure virtual network allows your virtual machines in Azure to directly access resources on your on-premises network. For example, a DirSync server running on an Azure virtual machine needs to query your on-premises domain controllers for changes to accounts and synchronize those changes with your Office 365 subscription. Get an overview Site-to-Site connection Learn how to connect On Premises Sites with Azure
• Where can I get more information how to connect to VM?
With support for Linux, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, and SAP, Azure Virtual Machines gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions—development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter. Find instructions how to connect to VM by the Azure classic portal Learn how to work with The Remote Desktop Protocol connection
• Where can I get more information how to deploy a virtual network in Azure?
An Azure virtual network is a representation of your own network in the cloud. You can control your Azure network settings and define DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies, and routing. Learn how to create a virtual network Get an overview Site-to-Site connection
• Where can I get more information how to deploy Dynamics AX on Azure? Please click on the link below to get more information how to deploy Dynamics AX on Azure. Learn how to deploy Microsoft Dynamics AX
• Where can I get more information how to implement a Scale Set and Auto-Scale? Please click on the links below to get more information how to implement a Scale Set and Auto-Scale. Learn how to create a Scale Set Find out more about Auto Scaling
• Where can I get more information how to implement Remote Desktops in Azure? Please click on the link below to get more information how to implement Remote Desktops in Azure. Learn about Azure Desktop hosting
• Where can I get more information how to implement site-to-site VPN connection? Site-to-site connections can be used for cross-premises and hybrid configurations. Learn how to create a virtual network with a site-to-site connection (Azure classic) Read up on how to create a virtual network with a site-to-site connection (Azure Portal)
• How do I activate my Microsoft Azure internal-use rights licenses that I’ve received as a Microsoft Partner Network member? You can find step-by-step instructions in the following article and video: Read up on how to activate Microsoft Azure internal-use rights licenses Watch to learn how to activate Microsoft Azure internal use rights licenses Register for IUR technical training to implement the most common Azure workloads
Development
• Where can I find an introduction to Azure Web Apps? Click on the link below to learn how to use App Service Web Apps to build and host websites and web applications. Learn something about Azure Web Apps
• How do we migrate from Active Directory (AD) to Azure Active Directory (AD)?
Click on the link below for information about migrating from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory. Learn how to connect Active Directory and azure Active Directory
High Availability / Disaster Recovery
• Where can I get more information about backup and disaster recovery? Learn how to use Automation to save time and increase the reliability of regular administrative tasks performed in a cloud environment. Find tutorials for backup and disaster recovery
• Where can I get more information about SQL PAAS vs IAAS?
Managing identity is just as important in the public cloud as it is on premises. To help with this, Azure supports several different Cloud Identity Technologies. Find information about several cloud identity technologies
Identity
• How do I configure Role Based Access Control (RBAC) on Azure? This article helps you get up and running with RBAC in the Azure portal. Learn how to use role assignments to manage access to your Azure subscription resources
Licensing
• Where can I get help about licensing and support of applications hosted in Azure VM for Microsoft and partner (Oracle images, RedHat images)? The Linux images in the Azure Gallery or Marketplace are provided by a number of partners, and we are working with various Linux communities to add even more flavors to the Endorsed Distribution list. Find a list of supporter and partners
• Where can I find more information about SAP HANA on Azure? Click on the links below to get knowledge about SAP HANA on Azure. Inform you about the latest news about SAP HANA Get information about SAP HANA on Azure Find information about Running SAP Applications on the Microsoft Platform
• How do I deploy Azure Domain Name System?
Click on the link below to learn how to manage your DNS records using Azure Domain Name System, a hosting service. Learn how to use the Azure Domain Name System
• Where can I get more information on CAL with Azure? Click on the link below to get more information on CAL with Azure. Look for the FAQs (Azure Site Recovery)
• Where can I find a comparison to SPLA or RDS?
Click on the links below to get more information regarding SPLA licensing and RDS CAL licensing. Click here for Virtual Machines Licensing FAQ Learn how to get started with SPLA
• Where can I get help about using personal image or Virtual Hard Disk, Remote Desktop
Services licensing in Azure? Please click on the link below to get more information on how to use your Azure licenses. Read the Azure Licensing FAQ Find out more about your Microsoft Azure Hybrid Use Benefit
• Where can I get more information about licenses and Azure back up licenses?
Please click on the link below to get more information on how to use Azure back up licenses. Read the Azure Licensing FAQ
• Where can I get more information if I can use my licenses on Azure? Please click on the link below to get more information on how to use Azure licenses. Visit the Licensing FAQ
Migration
• Where can I get information about migrating between subscriptions? Please click on the link below to get information about migrating between subscriptions. Read to learn about moving resources
• Where can I get information about migrating between subscriptions? Click on the link below to get information about migrating between subscriptions. Learn about moving resources
• Where can I get more information how to migrate from On Premises to Azure?
Azure Site Recovery enables automated protection, asynchronous ongoing replication, and orderly recovery of virtualized workloads between private clouds across enterprise sites or directly in Microsoft Azure. Read to learn how to migrate On-Premises to Azure Read to learn how to migrate a web app to Azure App Service
Security & Compliance
• Where can I find more information about the security and internal processes of Azure? Click on the links below for information about security and internal processes of Azure. Find information about security Get information about privacy
• Is Azure ISO/IEC 27001 certified? Click on the link below to get to know more about ISO/IEC 27001. See more information more about ISO/IEC 27001
Value Proposition
• Where can I get more information how a partner can make money out of Azure? Please click on the link below to get more information on how a partner can make money out of Azure. Download the is presentation to see how partners can make money with Azure
• What benefit does Azure ExpressRoute offer a client? Click on the links below for more knowledge about Azure ExpressRoute. Receive a technical overview of ExpressRoute Get more information about ExpressRoute
• Where can I get more information how Azure helps my business?
Please click the link below to get more information on how Azure can help your business. Read more about the Azure value proposition
IMPORTANT LINKS
• Saving costs on Azure If you’re not using your Infrastructure turn if off! https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2017/03/31/if-your-not-using-your-infrastructure-turn-if-off-saving-costs-on-azure-2/
• Azure pricing: No upfront costs. Only pay for what you use [how the pricing works] Outline of each Azure product and how it is billed Certain features of Azure of not billed hourly (e.g. certain DBs and NWs and parts of IoT) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
• Azure Pricing Calculator https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
• Azure VM Sizing & Types o Windows VMS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/sizes o Linux VMs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/sizes • Azure Storage
Key questions o What kinds of data are you accessing o How do you want to access your data o What is really critical and what isn’t
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/storage-introduction • SQL Database transaction Units (DTUs)
o What is a DTU https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-what-is-a-dtu
o DTU Calculator http://dtucalculator.azurewebsites.net/
• The DTU Calculator provides an estimated service tier which will suit for your workload. The input for the Azure DTU calculator is the four performance counters collected using either an exe or powershell script provided on the site. The four counters collected are
o Processor – % Processor Time o Logical Disk – Disk Reads/Sec o Logical Disk – Disk Writes/Sec o Database – Log Bytes Flushed/Sec
• Azure App Services App Service brings together everything you need to create web and mobile apps for any platform and any device. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service/
o Website specific https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/web/
• Azure Quickstart Templates Deploy Azure resources through the Azure Resource Manager with community contributed templates to get more done. Deploy, learn, fork and contribute back. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/templates/
PRODUCT DETAIL FOR AZURE
(click to open) Compute
o Virtual Machines Provision Windows and Linux virtual machines in seconds
o Virtual Machine Scale Sets Manage and scale up to thousands of Linux and Windows virtual machines
o Container Service Scale and orchestrate containers using Kubernetes, DC/OS or Docker Swarm
o Functions Process events with serverless code
o Batch Cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management
o Service Fabric Develop microservices and orchestrate containers on Windows or Linux
o Cloud Services Create highly-available, infinitely-scalable cloud applications and APIs
o RemoteApp Deploy Windows client apps in the cloud, run on any device
o Container Registry Store and manage container images across all types of Azure deployments
Networking o Bandwidth
Data transferred out of Azure data centers o IP Addresses
A dynamic or reserved address used to identify a given cloud service, virtual machine, or role instance used on Azure that follow the Internet Protocol.
o Application Gateway Build scalable and highly-available web front ends in Azure
o VPN Gateway Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity
o Azure DNS Host your DNS domain in Azure
o Content Delivery Network (CDN) Ensure secure, reliable content delivery with broad global reach
o Traffic Manager Route incoming traffic for high performance and availability
o ExpressRoute Dedicated private network fiber connections to Azure
o Network Watcher Network performance monitoring and diagnostics solution
Storage o Storage
Durable, highly-available, and massively-scalable cloud storage o Data Lake Store
Hyperscale repository for big data analytics workloads o StorSimple
Lower costs with an enterprise hybrid cloud storage solution o Backup
Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud o Site Recovery
Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds Web + Mobile
o App Service Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile
o Content Delivery Network (CDN) Ensure secure, reliable content delivery with broad global reach
o Media Services Encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale
o Azure Search Fully-managed search-as-a-service
o Mobile Engagement Increase app usage and user retention
o API Management Publish APIs to developers, partners and employees securely and at scale
o Notification Hubs Send push notifications to any platform from any back end
Databases o SQL Database
Managed relational SQL Database as a service o SQL Data Warehouse
Elastic data warehouse as a service with enterprise-class features o SQL Server Stretch Database
Dynamically stretch on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure o Azure Cosmos DB
Try Azure Cosmos DB for a globally distributed, multi-model database o Storage
Durable, highly-available, and massively-scalable cloud storage o Redis Cache
Access to a secure, dedicated cache for your Azure applications o Data Factory
Orchestrate and manage data transformation and movement o Azure Database for MySQL
Managed MySQL database service for app developers o Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Managed PostgreSQL database service for app developers Data + Analytics
o HDInsight Provision cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters
o Machine Learning Easily build, deploy, and manage predictive analytics solutions
o Stream Analytics Real-time data stream processing from millions of IoT devices
o Cognitive Services Add smart API capabilities to enable contextual interactions
o Data Lake Analytics Distributed analytics service that makes big data easy
o Data Lake Store Hyperscale repository for big data analytics workloads
o Data Factory
Orchestrate and manage data transformation and movement o Data Catalog
Get more value from your enterprise data assets o Azure Analysis Services
Proven analytical engine in the cloud o Dynamics 365 for Customer Insights
Transform your customer data into actionable insights Internet of Things
o IoT Hub Connect, monitor, and control billions of IoT assets
o Event Hubs Receive telemetry from millions of devices
o Stream Analytics Real-time data stream processing from millions of IoT devices
o Machine Learning Easily build, deploy, and manage predictive analytics solutions
o Notification Hubs Send push notifications to any platform from any back end
o Time Series Insights Instantly explore and analyze time-series data
Enterprise Integration o Logic Apps
Automate the access and use of data across clouds without writing code o Service Bus
Connect across private and public cloud environments o API Management
Publish APIs to developers, partners and employees securely and at scale o StorSimple
Lower costs with an enterprise hybrid cloud storage solution o SQL Server Stretch Database
Dynamically stretch on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure o Data Factory
Orchestrate and manage data transformation and movement o Data Catalog
Get more value from your enterprise data assets Security + Identity
o Security Center Simplify cloud management with process automation
o Key Vault Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets
o Azure Active Directory The free edition is included with an Azure subscription. For Basic and Premium edition pricing, please reference the license-based price list. Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on
o Azure Active Directory B2C Consumer identity and access management in the cloud
Developer Tools o Visual Studio Team Services1111
Services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software o Application Insights
Detect, triage, and diagnose issues in your web apps and services
o API Management Publish APIs to developers, partners and employees securely and at scale
o HockeyApp Deploy mobile apps, collect feedback and crash reports, and monitor usage
Monitoring + Management o Application Insights
Detect, triage, and diagnose issues in your web apps and services o Log Analytics
Collect, search, and visualize machine data from on-premises and cloud o Automation
Simplify cloud management with process automation o Backup
Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud o Site Recovery
Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds o Scheduler
Run your jobs on simple or complex recurring schedules o Traffic Manager
Route incoming traffic for high performance and availability o Azure Monitor
Highly granular and real-time monitoring data for any Azure resource o Network Watcher
Network performance monitoring and diagnostics solution
