Azure Guides

Find your next Azure guide

Practical articles grouped by topic, from infrastructure and networking to identity and security.

Browse selected guides below or open the complete Azure archive. Dates show when each article was published; older guides may use earlier product names and interfaces.

Networking & secure access

Using Azure Bastion to connect securely to your Azure VMs (2020)

Configuring a Point-to-Site VPN connection to Azure (2020)

Configuring VNet Peering using the Azure portal (2019)

Compute & virtual desktops

Windows 365 vs. Azure Virtual Desktop: Which Cloud Solution is Right for Your Business? (2024)

Deploying and Configuring nested virtualization with Dv3 or Ev3 series virtual machine in Azure! (2020)

How to use boot diagnostics to troubleshoot virtual machines in Azure (2018)

Storage & recovery

Creating a Storage Account Using the Azure CLI (2019)

Deploying Azure File Sync and Replicate with on-premises file server 2019 (2019)

Backing up an Azure VM with the portal (2019)

Governance & administration

Assigning a Resource Policy to Resource Groups (2019)

Using Tags for Resource Groups in Azure (2019)

Using Locks for Resource Groups (2019)

Identity & privileged access

Configuring Conditional Access for Azure Management (2019)

Creating and Configuring access review of Azure resource roles in Privileged Identity Management (PIM) (2019)

Assigning Azure resource roles in Privileged Identity Management (PIM) (2019)

Cloud security & operations

Deploying Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Code in the Era of Increased Security Threats (2023)

Configuring Just in Time Access (JIT) (2019)

Create and Analyze Alerts using Azure Monitor (2019)