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There are four main Microsoft Azure integration tools for applications -- both on premises and cloud-based -- as well as data and processes: Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management and Event Grid. Learn the basics of each of these Azure integration tools below. Azure Logic Apps:   Logic Apps  is a cloud service that enables enterprises to connect on-premises and cloud systems with prebuilt APIs as Microsoft-managed connectors. Users can schedule, automate and orchestrate various tasks, processes and workflows for integration purposes. When logic app, which is an application built by the Logic Apps tool, is triggered, it runs the action needed -- such as data conversion and flow controls. Rather than deal with code, users can build these logic apps with a visual design tool. Microsoft also offers prebuilt template and connector galleries. Azure Service Bus:  Service Bus is a cloud messaging service that transfers data between applications and services via messages. Add...

Microsoft has discontinued DIRSYNC and directory synchronisation tool. Instead they have released Azure AD. I have provided insight into  Azure D Connect for those who didn’t know. Azure AD Connect is a bridge solution between an organisation’s on-prem Active Directory instance and cloud-based Azure Active Directory. AD Connect enables IT admins to federate on-prem user identities to the Azure platform. Actually, it’s a good way to enable single sign-on (SSO) without having to set up an Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) instance. So, for Microsoft-focused organisations’, this concept of an identity bridge solution, which is very much like the concept of Google Cloud Directory Sync (formerly called Google Apps Directory Sync, GCDS or GADS), makes a lot of sense. So how does Azure AD Connect and Azure AD fit in with the rest of Microsoft’s strategy for Active Directory? Microsoft’s strategy with Azure Active Directory hasn’t been to deliver it as a cloud-based replaceme...

Recently I had questions from my customers asking the differences between Azure web jobs VS Functions. At Prometix we have developed numerous Azure based applications and here is my thought. In the early days, Azure was a thin veneer over virtual machines, and since then it has grown to the point where,   you need to choose which service to use to host your code. From virtual machines to Azure Functions, we can tune just how much abstraction there is between our application code and the hardware. This article is about picking between two of the abstractions that run furthest from the hardware: WebJobs and Azure Functions. App Service Let’s start by talking about App Service, which is the technology that underlies both of these offerings. App Service started its life as a way of hosting applications inside of IIS (Internet Information Services) on Windows. The separation between the applications was provided by IIS and, as such, the configurability and isolation of these servi...