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Implementing Azure Solutions

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
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Implementing Azure Solutions

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure’s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Locking Azure resources


Now you know how to organize your resources, but for working with the resources, there is still another functionality that is important, which I will introduce now.

Azure resource locks

What does this mean? As an administrator, you may need to lock a resource group, or resource to prevent other users from accidentally deleting or modifying critical resources. The Azure resource manager offers a mechanism with two levels (CanNotDelete or ReadOnly) to be able to make appropriate settings.

Let's take a look at this:

  1. In the portal, click on Resource groups:
  1. On the Resource groups blade, click the acdppbook name field:
  1. In the navigation section on the Resource groups dashboard, click on the Locks button:
  1. On the Locks blade, click on the Add button:
  1. Now type ppbookdemo in the Lock name textbox, select a Lock type, and click on OK:
  1. Your first lock is ready.

Note

Attention! I have put in my example Read-only as a Lock type on Resource groups. This lock is automatically inherited to...