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Microsoft Azure guides from the perspective of someone who has deployed it in anger across public sector, consultancy, and MSP environments. Covers the infrastructure certification path (AZ-104, AZ-305), Entra ID and Conditional Access, networking with VNets and NSGs, Bicep and Terraform for IaC, cost management, and the security baselines that keep auditors happy. No vendor marketing, no course slides reheated. These are notes from real deployments, common failure modes, and the gaps the official documentation skips over. If you are taking certifications or running production Azure workloads, the guidance here is built to survive the Monday morning support call.

Azure Has Put Your Old VMs on the Clock: How to Find Out If You’re Affected

Architecture & Cloud Strategy, Azure / / October 1, 2026

Updated 1 October 2026: the growth restrictions are now in force, and the series list and retirement dates below follow Microsoft Learn’s current retirement and capacity restrictions page. In July 2026 Azure emailed subscription owners about older VM series. The email waves a comfortable 2028 retirement date at you, so most people archived it and

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Microsoft 365 E7 Explained: What IT Pros Need to Know (And What Microsoft Doesn’t Want You to Ask)

Architecture & Cloud Strategy, Azure, Digital Sovereignty, Microsoft / / October 8, 2026

Microsoft just moved the goalposts. Again. On March 9th they announced Microsoft 365 E7 — branded “The Frontier Suite” — the first new enterprise tier since E5 launched in 2015. It goes GA on May 1st at £79 per user per month. I’ve spent 18 years watching Microsoft licensing evolve. Every few years the pattern

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Azure AZ-104 Study Series | From Homelab to Cloud Career

Azure AZ-104 Study Series | From Homelab to Cloud Career

Azure / / October 1, 2026

Pass AZ-104 and Actually Understand Azure The AZ-104 Azure Administrator certification is one of the most in-demand cloud credentials in the UK. But passing the exam is not the same as understanding the platform. From the field: I have worked with Azure in enterprise environments for years. This series is not a regurgitation of Microsoft

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