The Azure Architecture Center is full of useful knowledge and resources. This Azure Tips and Tricks video gives you the tour! The Azure Architecture
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Azure Functions in Any Language with Custom Handlers – Microsoft Tech Community
To support building serverless applications in any programming language or runtime, Azure Functions provides a Custom Handlers feature that is now
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Callon Campbell awarded 2020-2021 Microsoft MVP in Azure
This week I received an exciting email from Microsoft that I was re-awarded for a third year now for the 2020 – 2021 Microsoft Most Valuable (MVP) award in Azure. Receiving the Microsoft MVP award is both a humbling and an exciting experience. It means you’re a member of a select group of experts of just over 2,000 MVPs from around the world, but I like to think of it as doing something I’m passionate about with other like minded individuals, having fun and always having something new to learn and share with the community.
The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with users and Microsoft. All of us at Microsoft recognize and appreciate Callon’s extraordinary contributions and want to take this opportunity to share our appreciation with you.
The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award Team
Microsoft Corporation

Since becoming a Microsoft MVP, I’ve learned a lot about the community and continued to share my passion, knowledge and experience within the community around Architecture and Development in Azure, DevOps and Serverless technologies. I also keep a keen eye on what’s happening on the data technologies like Cosmos DB and Azure SQL.
I was really looking forward to attending the MVP Summit back in March, but COVID-19 threw a wrench in that plan. Thankfully Microsoft moved the event online and it was still an amazing experience to connect with the product teams and MVPs from around the world – even if it was virtually.
If you’re interested in learning about the Microsoft MVP program and seeing what it takes to become a Microsoft MVP, or how to get awarded, I encourage you to take a look at the Microsoft MVP website and also the following article on “How to become a Microsoft MVP” where they explain some of the details of the program.
To wrap up this post I would like to congratulate all the other newly awarded, or renewed Microsoft MVP’s all over the world! You truly are an amazing community and I’m truly humbled and honored to be part of this group.
Enjoy!
References
10 Azure DevOps Tips & Tricks that you should know

Azure DevOps has everything you need to build your software product from envisioning to put in into end-users’ hands. This post listed 10 useful …
10 Azure DevOps Tips & Tricks that you should know
DevExpress Desktop Components | Visual Studio Toolbox
https://ift.tt/2WvXDcP In this episode, Robert is joined by Julian Bucknall, CTO of DevExpress, who shows off the power and capabilities of several …
DevExpress Desktop Components | Visual Studio Toolbox
How to choose Azure services for working with messages in your application | Azure Friday
In this episode of Azure Friday, Azure MVP Barry “Azure Barry” Luijbregts joins Scott Hanselman to outline how you can choose the right services for working with messages and events in your application.
[0:00:48] – Presentation
- Azure services
- Pluralsight course: Microsoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When (paywall)
- Azure Queue Storage
- Azure Service Bus
- Azure Notification Hubs
- Azure Event Grid
- Azure Event Hubs
- Azure IoT Hub
- Azure Logic Apps
- Azure SignalR Service
- Create a free account (Azure)
Source: Channel 9
Resources
- Azure Friday – https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday
- Free Azure Account – https://aka.ms/cldntvshw/freeazure
Azure Offline Backup with Azure Data Box now in preview
Great post on doing Azure Offline Backup with Azure Data Box.
Azure Advent Calendar – Azure Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

Salaam, Namaste, Ola and Hello! My name is Shabaz Darr and this is the 6th day of the Azure Advent Calendar ( https://azureadventcalendar.com ). One of my main focuses in my role is Security, which is why I have chosen Azure Multi Factor Authentication as my topic for this blog.
Account passwords are historically one of the easiest security measures to hack, be it via ‘Brute Force attacks’ or users have simple passwords that are easy to guess. Attacks on organizations have become more complex over the years, however basic attacks, such as email phishing, that can be done by almost anyone are still a rather effective way of gaining access to an organizations most sensitive information.Multi-factor authentication is the process of identifying users by validating two of more characteristics that are unique to that users
Multi-factor authentication has evolved as the single most effective control to insulate an organization…
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#Windows10 – Mouse without borders, a #MustHave if you work with 2 or more computers
#Windows10 – Mouse without borders, a #MustHave if you work with 2 or more computers
#Windows10 – Mouse without borders, a #MustHave if you work with 2 or more computers
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Prairie.Code() 2019 – SQL Server DevOps
Great presentation on SQL Server DevOps!
Note: Slides do not tell the whole story of the talk, so take the stand alone slides with a grain of salt. Things may be taken out of context.