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Azure Skyline: Terms (Resource Groups, App Service Plans and SQL Elastic Pools)
Last updated: Friday, April 30, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - March/April
Azure has come out with some great new tools. Mike introduces some of them, including Resource Groups, App Service Plans, and SQL Elastic Pools.
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Azure Skyline: Data in Cloud Applications
Last updated: Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - July/August
Mike looks at the technology that allows multiple teams to connect and scale their data despite disparate data storage methods.
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Azure Skyline: Building and Deploying Services to Azure with .NET Core and Docker
Last updated: Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - March/April, EPS/CODE Articles & Whitepapers
Today’s devs have to be nimble. Your app has to work on a multitude of platforms and meet any number of platform-specific demands. Mike explains how a new tool called Docker can help you deploy your apps on everything from Linux to .NET and leave you hardly breaking a sweat.
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Azure Skyline: Using WebJobs for Event-Driven, Asynchronous Services
Last updated: Friday, June 4, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - November/December
If your call to services times out after four minutes, you can have a problem if the process needed to retrieve the data or a fire-and-forget operation takes longer than that. What if the user makes a request and then wanders away from the computer? Mike solves it for you, with WebJobs in Azure Skyline.
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Azure Skyline: Visual Studio Reports in the Cloud
Last updated: Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - September/October
Every company requires reports. They’re one of the constants of the business world. Mike shows us how to use Azure and VS to get just what you need without the drudgery you’ve come to expect.
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Azure Skyline: Azure’s Active Directory—Authorization in the Cloud
Last updated: Friday, December 5, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - July/August
In "Azure Skyline," Mike Yeager explains the complexities of Azure Active Directory (AAD) from an end-user perspective, highlighting how multiple AADs, domain associations, and Microsoft IDs create confusion during login processes. He emphasizes that login names often resemble email addresses but represent distinct identities across different AADs with separate passwords. Yeager advises users to understand authentication from an app’s viewpoint rather than their own, clarifying that AAD manages authorization through varied account types, which, while powerful, can lead to overlapping and confusing login experiences.
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Azure Skyline: Azure’s SQL Database—SQL Server in the Cloud
Last updated: Thursday, June 24, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - March/April
Mike explores Azure SQL Database and what it has the potential to do for large and small businesses.

