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How to search for an Azure Blob
How do you search for an Azure Blob, Storage Account or even a Container? While Azure provides massive storage capabilities, often users and IT Departments alike use Azure Storage for dumping large amounts of files to remove reliance on on-premise storage devices....
How to find duplicate BLOBs in your Azure Storage Accounts
Reduce your Azure Storage Costs Azure Storage is like an all you can eat buffet, except the more you eat, the more you pay! This has provided organisations an almost limitless supply of storage, and as we all know, the more that’s available, the more we’ll use. Azure...
How to see all your Azure VM Snapshots
Snapshot an Azure VM Snapshots in Azure is a nice feature that allows you to take a read-only, “point in time” snapshot of a Virtual Machine’s disk. You can take a snapshot of a VM’s OS or data disk. You can use this snapshot to revert the VM to a point in time before...
How to get the size of all your Azure Storage Accounts
Are you using Azure Blob Storage for storing your data? Do you want to keep track of how much Azure Storage you are consuming, the number of Blobs per storage account, the number of containers, and the Azure Blob Storage capacity used? If so, you need a reliable...
Minimizing Azure Blob Storage Costs: Tips and Tricks
Maximizing cost savings on Azure Blob Storage and Files has become increasingly important as more businesses migrate their data to the cloud. In this article, we'll discuss how utilizing Cloud Storage Manager can help you optimize Azure storage consumption and...
How to download an Azure VM
Migrate an Azure VM to VMware or Hyper-V If you're looking to download an Azure Virtual Machine to either VMware or Hyper-V for cost savings or compliance reasons, our software Carbon automates the process with just a few clicks. With Carbon, you won't need to use...
How to find Azure BLOB files that haven’t been accessed
Azure Blob storage has provided companies with a way to store almost limitless amount of data. But just like kids in a candy store this can get out of hand, and expensive. Being able to store as much data as you want is great, however it is something that can grow to...
How to find the largest Azure Blobs
If you are looking to optimize their storage costs on Azure Blob storage. With the increasing amount of data being stored in the cloud, it's important to keep track of the size of each Blob and identify which ones are taking up the most storage. This is where the...
Move users to another domain and retain AD Connect sync
We were recently asked for help by one of our clients that needed to separate a number of users from their existing domain by moving them into their own Active Directory forest. This can happen for all sorts of reasons, including divestments, security, geographical or...
How to sync users from a second domain using AD Connect
Overview Are you looking to integrate a new company into your existing Azure AD tenant? Or perhaps you need to share your tenancy and Office 365 services with more than one company? If you find yourself in a position where you need to sync users from another domain...