Today will be a practical example to help you better understand how to size an Azure VM.

Using an Azure File share to run an executable via PowerShell is easy – unless Windows stops you. Learn how to deal with the OFSW from a PowerShell script.

Microsoft Connect(); 2017 is introducing a number of much-need and much anticipated DevOps functionality … and we have a summary of the best bits!

Learn what’s changing with Visual Studio Team Services and how Microsoft used Azure to improve the performance of SSH connections to VSTS.

Sometimes you need ARM resources to be applied only when a template is deployed for the first time. Learn how ARM conditions can achieve this goal.

If you’re doing Xamarin, macOS (OS X), or iOS development work, learn how to setup a VSTS build agent on the Mac and automate your DevOps pipeline.

You have Team Foundation Server (TFS) and rely on SQL Server backups, so they may be unusable. Learn how to properly backup TFS and test your recovery plan.

Sometimes you will find that you need a cloud environment for working on a Visual Studio project. Consider setting up a temporary Azure VM.

DevOps is about increasing efficiency and eliminating barriers. Learn how to manually connect Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to Microsoft Azure.

Originally published in 2012, this was my first published article, a guest post for MSDN covering some of the tricks we found for optimizing and improving the performance of PHP with classic Web and Worker Roles on Azure. With the original post having since been removed from MSDN, the contents are now posted here for anyone interested in understanding this older Azure technology.