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New to Azure Noob? Start with these battle-tested guides that solve real production problems.
🔍 Struggling with FinOps & Cost Management?
Azure cost reporting is broken out of the box. Here's how to fix it.
- Azure Cost Reporting for the Boardroom — Turn receipts into stories leadership actually understands
- Azure Cost Management is Confusing — Taming Azure billing chaos
- Cost Reports Don't Match Business Reality — Why shared infrastructure breaks chargeback
- Six Azure Tags That Make Chargeback Actually Work — The tagging model that survives production
- Azure Resource Tags Guide — Order, capitalization, and spelling that scales
📊 Mastering KQL & Resource Graph?
Real KQL queries that handle messy production environments, not clean demos.
- KQL Cheat Sheet — Complete guide with syntax, operators, and real examples
- Azure VM Inventory with KQL — One query to rule them all
- KQL Across Multiple Systems — When Resource Graph isn't enough
- KQL Query Library in Git — Version control for your production queries
🔧 Operations & Troubleshooting
Azure problems that aren't supposed to happen but do — and how to fix them.
- Azure Update Manager Reality Check — 77% of VMs show as unsupported (they're not)
- Azure VM Automation Dependency Hell — Chocolatey vs winget in production
- The 3 Hour Rule — Stop debugging, open a Microsoft support ticket
- Azure Support Ticket Reality — You're paying for support, actually use it
🚀 Migration & Enterprise Azure
Lessons from consolidating 44 subscriptions and 21 AD domains.
- Why Most Azure Migrations Fail — The institutional knowledge problem nobody talks about
- Azure Migrate Enterprise Reality — What dual ExpressRoute and 21 domains taught me
- Leadership Wants Migration ROI (That's the Wrong Question) — Soft costs they're not counting
- Your CMDB Is Wrong — How cloud migration fixes your inventory
🛠️ Tools & Automation
Working scripts and tools tested on actual enterprise subscriptions.
- Azure IPAM Tool — IP address management for subscription consolidation
- Modernizing Azure Workbooks — Enhanced monitoring from 50 to 200+ services
- Four Logic Apps Every Azure Admin Needs — Automation that actually saves time
- Azure Service Inventory Tool — Know what you're running
📚 Reference Materials
Visual guides and quick references for daily Azure work.
- Azure Icons Reference — Every official Azure icon, organized and searchable
- Azure Service Dictionary — What every Azure service actually does
- Azure Icons Interactive Table — Search and copy Azure icons instantly
What Makes This Blog Different
Every post includes:
- Full working code — No fragments, no placeholders
- Real production problems — From actual enterprise environments
- Honest assessments — What works, what doesn't, and why
- GitHub repositories — Clone it, test it, use it