Knowing how to automate processes in today's IT organizations is critical. System administrators typically have to manage hundreds of servers and a cloud environment and provide support to users.

Azure offers a pretty robust set of tools to get you started. Here are some of the main things you’ll find: Runbooks: These ...

Over the last three months I've looked at how to deploy VMs to Azure, how to pick the right virtual machine (VM) size and other optimizations, followed by network and security best practices. And ...