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After receiving a warning about publicly accessible Azure Storage accounts, I demonstrate how to quickly identify and secure them using Azure Cloud Shell commands. I walk through querying for exposed accounts and provide a simple Bash loop to disable public blob access across all storage accounts in a subscription. This practical guide helps ensure your data remains private while highlighting the importance of proactive security configurations.

I share my experience configuring a Synology NAS to synchronize with Microsoft Azure and Dropbox, highlighting how this setup provides robust, local access to cloud-stored files. By detailing the hardware specifications and Cloud Sync settings used in my home lab, I demonstrate how this affordable solution offers reliable redundancy and seamless data management for both personal and professional use.

Join me next Wednesday for a 90-minute Community Connection session at Microsoft Build 2020, where I’m proud to host a panel of stellar Azure Heroes and community leaders. We will dive into highlights from the Azure Heroes program, share learnings from the past fiscal year, and engage in live Q&A, so register today to save your seat and potentially win some Azure socks.

If you are struggling with slow connection times and excessive memory usage when using Connect-ExchangeOnline in Azure Functions, this post shares practical fixes that drastically improved my performance. I explain how specifying the CommandName parameter and properly managing session cleanup with Disconnect-ExchangeOnline and garbage collection reduced my execution time from 35 seconds to just 4 seconds while keeping memory usage well under control.

I share my experience building a custom Microsoft Edge extension to replace the default New Tab page, primarily to eliminate the intrusive Bing search toolbar. By leveraging Azure as a backend to serve daily images from Bing’s Image Search API, I demonstrate how to automate this client-side solution using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.