Jeff Brown

Terraform is a popular Infrastructure as Code solution. Did you know that you can manage other Azure resources, such as policy definitions and assignments with Terraform? In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Terraform to manage Azure Policy by creating a policy definition for a storage account naming standard. You will then assign the policy to a subscription and test the policy’s effectiveness.

HashiCorp Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that enables deploying resources on-premises and to the cloud. You can build, modify, and version your environment using an efficient deployment process. In this Getting Started tutorial, I’ll introduce to the basic Terraform concepts, and you’ll deploy your first Terraform configuration in Azure.

Infrastructure as code aims to make resource deployment more predictable. Instead of writing complicated scripts, you write out what the resource should look like and then have a tool figure out how to deploy it. For Azure, the infrastructure-as-code solution has been the Azure Resource Manager or ARM templates written in the JSON syntax. Microsoft recently released a new configuration called Azure Bicep, which makes the configuration writing process more manageable. In this article, you’ll learn about the Bicep syntax, authoring a Bicep template, and deploying Azure resources using Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI.

While the migration from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams has many moving parts, one item you don’t need to worry about is updating meetings. Microsoft provides the Meeting Migration Service (MMS), which automatically converts your existing Skype for Business meetings to Microsoft Teams meetings. However, there are some scenarios where automatic migration does not occur, and you need to know how to verify that meetings were migrated successfully. In this post, I will cover when migrations occur and how to configure your tenant for automatic migrations.

Microsoft Teams is more than just a collaboration tool. It can also provide telephone services, so your users can make and receive phone calls. Another feature included in the Phone System license is using voice apps such as auto attendants and call queues. The auto attendant provides a menu system for incoming calls and includes a directory search option. I’ll cover configuration of this option below.