Jonnychipz Weekly # 21 – ‘Virtual’ Reality?
Week 21 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 21.05.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) This week I delve into the Azure Updates of the week, talk about the May Welsh … Continue reading Jonnychipz Weekly # 21 – ‘Virtual’ Reality? Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Emma Harvey-Pugh
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Strengths Coach Emma Harvey-Pugh This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 21st May 2021 After recently going through the process and having … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In Conversation with… Continue...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 20 – The Show Must Go On
Week 20 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 14.05.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) This week I delve into the Azure Updates of the week, talk about the up and … Continue reading Jonnychipz Weekly # 20 – The Show Must Go On Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their...
Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon – Adopting the Cloud with CAF for Azure
I am hugely excited and thankful to the CLL team for accepting my talk on Adopting the Cloud with CAF for Azure. My talk will be going out at 12.30pm on the 13th May 2021. What is the Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon? A global online tech conference created to provide an inclusive and diverse … Continue reading Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon – Adopting the Cloud with CAF for Azure Continue Reading jonnychipz’s...
Enable Azure Site Recovery (ASR) while creating Azure Virtual Machines
A cool new feature went Generally Available in the Azure Portal this week where you can save a bit of time and create your new VM in Azure and enable it for Azure Site Recovery at the same time. This will save having to enable ASR as a separate task once you have created your … Continue reading Enable Azure Site Recovery (ASR) while creating Azure Virtual Machines Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Veronika Kolesnikova
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Software Developer and Community Leader and Microsoft MVP Veronika Kolesnikova This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 14th May 2021 Veronika talks … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In Conversation… Continue...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 19 – Thank You
Week 19 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG Live at 12.30pm GMT 07.05.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) This has been a tough week for me and my family due to the sad loss of my beautiful mum, I felt that I needed to air my thoughts and feelings and say Thank You, … Continue reading Jonnychipz Weekly # 19 – Thank You Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog Jonnychipz Weekly # 19 –...
Creating an Azure SQL Private Link Endpoint and managing DNS
Just a quick blog to capture the stages of creating an Azure Private Endpoint that represents an Azure SQL Database Server in order that the SQL Server can be accessed via a Private IP instead of the Public endpoint. This task list has been completed after a successful Private Link MicroHack, details of which can … Continue reading Creating an Azure SQL Private Link Endpoint and… Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Mark Allan
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Software Developer and all around Cloud Advocate Mark Allan. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 7th May 2021 Mark takes us … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In Conversation with… Continue Reading...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 18 – Networking Extravaganza
Week 18 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 30.04.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) This week I delve into the Azure Updates of the week, talk about the up and … Continue reading Jonnychipz Weekly # 18 – Networking Extravaganza Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on...
Azure Virtual WAN MicroHack
As an employee of a Microsoft Partner, I get invited to join some brilliant training programmes set up and run by the OCP area of Microsoft. I attended an Azure Virtual WAN Microhack today, looking at all things Azure Virtual WAN. The details and instructions of this hack can be found in the following GitHub … Continue reading Azure Virtual WAN MicroHack Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog Azure...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Jared Shockley
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he discussed all things Live Streaming / Video Recording and setups with Steve the audio guy aka Jared Shockley. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In Conversation with… Continue Reading...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 17 – Back to normality?
Week 17 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 23.04.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) This week I delve into the Azure Updates of the week, talk about the up and … Continue reading Jonnychipz Weekly # 17 – Back to normality? Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their...
AZ-220 Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Exam Prep
So the next Microsoft exam in your sights is AZ-220? Me to! I was fortunate enough to sit this exam in April 2021 just before the skills measured changed, so this article is based on the exam I sat. You may want to have a look at the exam skills measured to see what has … Continue reading AZ-220 Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Exam Prep Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog AZ-220 Microsoft Azure IoT...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Thomas Thornton and Karl Cooke
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he has his first 3 person In Conversation with Thomas Thornton and Karl Cooke. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 23rd April 2021 This was … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Thomas Thornton… Continue...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 16 – On Brand!
Week 16 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 16.04.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) This week I delve into the 30+ Azure Updates of the week, talk about the success … Continue reading Jonnychipz Weekly # 16 – On Brand! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog...
Welsh Azure User Group April Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG April meet up and we had 3 Amazing Lighting Talks as well as a feature Length talk all about IoT Robot Arms and Azure! AGENDA6.30pm – Welcome and House Keeping6.45pm – Anirban Ganguly – Kubernetes it’s not that hard7.00pm – Vukašin Terzić – Creating … Continue reading Welsh Azure User Group April Meet Up! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Rishab Kumar
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats with DevOps Engineer, 100DaysOfCloud Core team member Rishab Kumar. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 16th April 2021 We discuss the incredible 100DaysOfCloud … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In… Continue...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 15 – On the Edge
Week 15 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 09.04.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) This week I talk about the continuation of my AIoT Studies with Object Detection models and … Continue reading Jonnychipz Weekly # 15 – On the Edge Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on...
Azure IoT Edge – Securing your Devices
How do you make sure your Azure Edge devices are secure and cannot be tampered with? This is the job of the Azure IoT Edge Security Manager. More information can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-edge/iot-edge-security-manager?view=iotedge-2018-06 The key principals of the Security Manager is that it protects all of the Edge components and devices by abstracting the …
Creating a Custom Vision AI Model using CustomVision.ai
So we hear a lot about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning built into devices and applications. In this blog article I will walk through a simple example of how to utilise the CustomVision.ai website to create and train an AI model to recognise objects. This website is part of the Microsoft Cognitive Services features and … Continue reading Creating a Custom Vision AI Model… Continue Reading jonnychipz’s...
Start to build good habits
I went for a walk last weekend. A very long walk. As I sit here aching from the hills I climbed I look back on that walk and I think about what I achieved: Exercise – As well as a virtual commute around the local park for 30 mins every morning, I like to feel like I’ve pushed myself by walking up and down a lot of hills at the weekendRelaxation – I find walking in fields and woods and along… Continue Reading...
Managing Teams – Movers and Leavers
Whenever someone leaves an organisation or changes roles, the permissions of their user account should be checked to ensure that No Teams are left without an owner (every Team should really have two owners)Their access to Teams they no longer need access to is revoked. There are many ways to do this but most organisations will consider this when the need arises. I have published a… Continue Reading Alan Eardley’s Article...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Sarah Lean
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats with Senior Cloud Advocate, Public Speaker, Vlogger, Blogger and amazing Community Leader Sarah Lean, aka @techielass. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 9th … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In… Continue Reading...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 14 – AI Powered Object Detection!
Week 14 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 02.04.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) (Ignore the wrong date on the video! oops!) This week I give an update on the … Continue reading Jonnychipz Weekly # 14 – AI Powered Object Detection! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article...
Is Blogging Dead?
Ok so this week I had the great pleasure in joining a live stream panel discussion on Blogging with Sarah Lean @techielass, Shannon Kuehn @shankuehn, Chris Reddington @reddobowen and Jamie Maguire @jamie_maguire1. Huge thanks to Sarah for the invite, I found this a really fun and interesting topic area to discuss, and hope you find … Continue reading Is Blogging Dead? Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog Is...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Derek Campbell
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats with Senior Solutions Engineer for Octopus Deploy, Mr Derek Campbell aka DevOpsDerek. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 2nd April 2021 We discuss … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In Conversation… Continue...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 13 – AIoT is Awesome!
Week 13 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 26.03.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) (Ignore the wrong date on the video! oops!) This week I jump into the wonderful world … Continue reading Jonnychipz Weekly # 13 – AIoT is Awesome! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on...
Extracting PNG Images from an Alpha Channel Video
Ok a quick blog here on how you can extract images from a video file. So I have a animated logo saved in .MOV format with an Alpha Channel, basically an Alpha Channel allows for transparency when you overlay a video file in something like OBS. The Jonnychipz Logo above is animated and runs on … Continue reading Extracting PNG Images from an Alpha Channel Video Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog...
Deploying Azure with Terraform
I have decided to create a technical track on Terraform on my YouTube channel aimed at anyone looking to pick up the basics of how to get started and utilise Terraform to deploy Azure infrastructure. I have created the first few videos in the series and hope that this will build over time and as … Continue reading Deploying Azure with Terraform Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with April Edwards
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats with Senior Software Engineer, Azure Advocate and Hashicorp Ambassador, the awesome April Edwards This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 26th March 2021 April … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In… Continue Reading...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 12 – Arc Hack!
Week 12 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 19.03.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) This week I focus on Azure Arc Hack that I have been involved with and some … Continue reading Jonnychipz Weekly # 12 – Arc Hack! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog...
Welsh Azure User Group March Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March Lightning Talks meet up and we had seven, yes seven amazing Community speakers join us for a plethora of talks in and around Azure! AGENDA6.30pm – Welcome and House Keeping6.45pm – Martyn Coupland – DevSecOps on Microsoft Azure7.00pm – Mert Yeter – Visual … Continue reading Welsh Azure User Group March… Continue Reading...
Hybrid Azure Arc and Management Partner Hack
Hey everyone, ok so for the last 2 days as part of my job I have been involved in an intense learning journey all around Azure Arc to learn all about onboarding, and monitoring on-prem resources as Arc Enabled resources within Azure. To start off, the scope for these two days has been brilliantly put … Continue reading Hybrid Azure Arc and Management Partner Hack Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Saiman Shetty
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats Technical Programme Manager for Robotics and Self Driving Car Projects Mr Saiman Shetty This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 19th March 2021 Saiman … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In Conversation with… Continue...
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
Just thought I would put together a quick post regarding the MCT accreditation and what this means for someone looking to obtain this. I was fortunate to have met the application criteria and have been privileged to receive this award this week. Full details of the award can be found here: Become a Microsoft Certified … Continue reading Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 11 – MCT Award!
Week 11 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates after an amazing Virtual Ignite session, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 12.03.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) I base my Community Call outs around the people / … Continue reading Jonnychipz Weekly # 11 – MCT Award! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Mert Yeter
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats with Software Architect / Azure MVP. Traefik Ambassador and Community Leader….. Mr Mert Yeter This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 12th March 2021 … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In Conversation with…...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 10 – Microsoft Ignite Special
Week 10 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the March 2021 Microsoft Ignite Live at 12.30pm GMT 05.03.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) I talk about some of the main announcements at Ignite this year and cover off: The Book of News: https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-march-2021-book-of-news/ Cloud Skills Challenge for a free Microsoft Exam Cert: … Continue reading Jonnychipz… Continue Reading...
Microsoft Security Technical Content Library and other Security Training
This week, Microsoft have launched a new platform called the Microsoft Security Technical Content Library Within this blog post I hope to highlight some amazing Training materials available to become familiar with all Security related products and features across the Microsoft space. This Library can be utilised to search for content related to Security, Compliance … Continue reading Microsoft… Continue Reading...
Creating Azure DevOps Build Pipelines to deploy Container Image into Azure App Service
This Blog post and associated YouTube Video follows on from my previous posts where I build a Blazor WASM application and push this as a container into Azure Container Registry: This Blog post extends the above two posts by doing the following things: Utilises the docker-compose.yaml file to build and publish the Blazor WASM Application … Continue reading Creating Azure DevOps Build Pipelines… Continue Reading...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with David Sadler
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats with Technical Recruiter David Sadler in this later release of In Conversation with… The next episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 5th March 2021 … Continue reading Jonnychipz – In Conversation with… Continue...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 9
Week 9 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering Azure Updates and News, Welsh Azure User Group, Community Call Outs and Jonnychipz on the side! The video will go Live at 12.30pm GMT 26.02.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) Some call outs today for @TeccieLass @dean_ellerby @andy_69jones @getmodern_uk @bradcug @reddobowen @urlichsanais @microsoftlearn @wedoazure … Continue reading
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Anais Urlichs
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats with Developer Advocate Anais Urlichs on 100DaysofKubernetes, Containers, DevOps and more….. The next episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 26th February 2021. Anais Urlichs … Continue reading Jonnychipz –…...
Create and Push a Docker Image to Azure Container Registry
Following on from my previous post around creating a Blazor WASM Container Image of my application which you can access below….. this blog article will focus on the next step of my process which is to take my container image created and push this into an Azure Container Registry: You can follow along with this … Continue reading Create and Push a Docker Image to Azure… Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 8
Week 8 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering Azure Updates and News, Welsh Azure User Group, Community Call Outs and Jonnychipz on the side! Some call outs today for @urlichsanais @tamstar1234 @IOTeaLive @AzureishLive @pete_codes @cliffordagius @itopstalk I hope you enjoy the content, please don’t forget to like and subscribe to my YouTube channel! Check out … Continue reading Jonnychipz… Continue Reading...
Welsh Azure User Group February Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG February meet up and we had two amazing in Johhn Savill and Scott Hanselman on to discuss Resiliancy in Azure and transitioning a legacy blog and web site into Azure using Containers and App Service Plans! AGENDA6.00pm – Welcome!6.15pm – Moving a … Continue reading Welsh Azure User Group February Meet Up! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their...
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Chris Reddington
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats with Microsoft Azure Fast Track Engineer Mr Chris Reddington on Azure Architecture Patterns, Git, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Skills, Community and more…. The next episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with’ will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can’t miss! Join … Continue reading Jonnychipz –…...
Jonnychipz Weekly # 7
Week 7 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering Azure Updates and News, Welsh Azure User Group, Community Call Outs and Jonnychipz on the side! Some call outs today for @jamie_maguire1 @SocialOpinions @BradCug @m3rtyeter @wedoazure @IOTeaLive @AzureishLive @gregor_suttie @jack_ref @kartben @pete_codes @cliffordagius @CloudSkills_io I hope you enjoy the content, please don’t forget to like and… Continue Reading jonnychipz’s...
Microsoft Openhack – Migrating Workloads to Azure – Day 3
Today was Day 2 of 3 of the Microsoft Openhack – Migrating Workloads to Azure. The following screen shots and examples were an attempt to capture the work we carried out today during the OpenHack, this includes creating all our resources in azure such as NSG’s, Subnets and Domain Controllers, along with all Site to … Continue reading Microsoft Openhack – Migrating Workloads to Azure –… Continue...