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Enable Modern Authentication on Office 365

Posted on October 15, 2018 by admin

I recently implemented Multifactor authentication for our O365/Azure users. Our users connect to Azure Portal and Office 365 using a variety of client apps. These applications handle MFA differently. I also needed to update Office 365 to allow modern authentication. … Continue reading →

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DevOps – Infrastructure as Code on Azure Platform with Hashicorp Terraform Part 1

Posted on March 27, 2016 by admin

At Cheval Partners, we believe that infrastructure as code is essential to get most out of your cloud platforms. Infrastructure as code is also required to implement immutable infrastructure. Hashicorp has a suite of products that make it easy to … Continue reading →

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Steps to becoming Self Employed

Posted on February 27, 2016 by admin

Over 15 years ago I decided to become self-employed IT Consultant. I was already a consultant for 5 years before that so becoming self-employed seemed the next logical step to me. At that time, I had written a word document … Continue reading →

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How to upgrade Azure DS Series VM to GS Series VM

Posted on September 30, 2015 by admin

Azure GS Series VM released on September 2nd 2015. G Series VM’s were released earlier this year. GS Series added ability to use SSD backed premium storage to the largest/fastest virtual machines on Azure platform. You can read more about … Continue reading →

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Adventures with Azure Resource Manager Part I

Posted on August 14, 2015 by admin

Overview In this series of blog posts I will create ARM templates used to provision Azure resources. I will kick things off by creating a template that shows you have to create multiple storage accounts. It also shows: How to … Continue reading →

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