Barbara Forbes
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Barbara Forbes
@ba.4bes.nl
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Microsoft Azure MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and GitHub Star. Teacher @ LinkedIn Learning, Speaker and organizer @ conferences.
25 days of Azure content. Done.

Posting every day was tough, but it’s one of the fastest ways I know to learn and grow.

If this helped you and you’d like to support future experiments, find my site on my profile.

#Azure#Cloud#Microsoft#OneMinuteOfAzure
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25 minutes of Azure - Recap. | One Minute of Azure
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December 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Day 25 closes our Azure Advent Calendar with One Minute of Azure on Azure Cost Management + Billing, because the fastest cloud is useless if it’s silently burning budget.

What’s your best trick for keeping costs predictable?

#Azure#CostManagement#OneMinuteOfAzure

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December 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It’s Day 24, and in today’s One Minute of Azure we explore Azure Monitor and how logs, metrics, and alerts come together when things go wrong.

When did Azure monitor really help you out?

#Azure#AzureMonitor#Observability#SRE#OneMinuteOfAzure

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December 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Day 23 brings Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and in One Minute of Azure we cover how it spots risks across your resources and helps tighten your security posture.

#Azure#DefenderForCloud#CloudSecurity#SecurityPosture#OneMinuteOfAzure

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December 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It’s Day 22, and today’s One Minute of Azure features Azure Key Vault.

What’s the worst place you have spotted a secret?
#Azure #KeyVault #Security #ZeroTrust #OneMinuteOfAzure

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December 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Day 21 opens with One Minute of Azure and Azure Policy. Find out how guardrails turn “cloud chaos” into consistent compliance.

#Azure#AzurePolicy#Governance#CloudSecurity#OneMinuteOfAzure#Microsoft

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December 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It’s Day 20, and in today’s One Minute of Azure we dive into Azure Machine Learning

#Azure#AzureML#MachineLearning#MLOps#OneMinuteOfAzure

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Learn Azure Machine learning in 60 Seconds | One Minute of Azure
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December 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If your Wi-Fi suddenly gets worse in December.
Check if you might have unplugged the access point because you needed the socket for Christmas lights...

Ask me how I know 🥲
December 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Behind the Day 19 window, One Minute of Azure explores Foundry tools

Which cognitive feature has helped you most in real projects?

#Azure#AIServices#AI#Cognitive#Oneminuteofazure

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December 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Day 18 opens to Microsoft Foundry, watch One Minute of Azure to learn more about this service!

#Azure #OpenAI #AI #Developers #OneMinuteOfAzure #Foundry #Microsoft
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December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It’s Day 17, and today’s One Minute of Azure looks at API Management

Which APIM feature do you rely on most?

#Azure#APIM#APIs#DevOps#OneMinuteOfAzure

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December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Day 16 brings Azure Service Bus to One number of Azure. Watch the video to learn why Service bus might be useful for your automation

#Azure #ServiceBus #Messaging #Integration #OneMinuteOfAzure
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December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In Day 15 of the calendar, One Minute of Azure showcases Event Grid!

Where do you use Event Grid in your architecture?

#Azure #EventGrid #EventDriven #Integration #OneMinuteOfAzure

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December 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Day 14 opens with One Minute of Azure explaining Cosmos DB.

What’s your best tip for choosing a good partition strategy?

#Azure#CosmosDB#NoSQL#DistributedSystems#OneMinuteOfAzure
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December 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It’s Day 13, and today’s One Minute of Azure is about Azure Data Factory!

#Azure#DataFactory#ETL#DataEngineering#OneMinuteOfAzure

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December 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Day 12 reveals Azure Container Registry, and in One Minute of Azure we show how ACR can help you make your containers available

What is the best use case you have found for ACR?

#Azure #ACR #Containers #DevOps #OneMinuteOfAzure

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December 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Behind the Day 11 window, One Minute of Azure highlights Container Apps.

What was your first Container app project?

#Azure#ContainerApps#Microservices#Containers#OneMinuteOfAzure

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December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Time to go Serverless! Day 10 is here, and One Minute of Azure dives into Azure Functions.

What is the best Function you have ever build?

#Azure#Functions#Serverless#CloudNative#OneMinuteOfAzure

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December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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#PowerShell #automation #Germany #Europe #IT #Conference
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It’s Day 9, and we explain all about VM Scale Sets in One Minute of Azure.

Do you run VM Scale sets in your environment?

#Azure #ScaleSets #Autoscale #CloudArchitecture #OneMinuteOfAzure #Adventcalender
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Learn Azure VM Scale sets in 60 Seconds | One Minute of Azure
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December 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Day 8 opens with Azure VMs.
In today’s video we touch on sizing basics and the use case for Virtual machines

Do you turn your VMs off at night?

#Azure#VMs#CloudCompute#DevOps#OneMinuteOfAzure

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December 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It’s Day 7, and One Minute of Azure breaks down what options are available in an Azure VPN Gateway connection

What’s your biggest lesson learned when deploying VPNs in Azure?

#Azure #VPN #HybridCloud #Networking #OneMinuteOfAzure
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Learn Azure VPN gateway in 60 Seconds | One Minute of Azure
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December 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Behind door 6 of One Minute of Azure: Private Link. Make Public resources private for extra security.

Do you think Private link is a must for Azure resources in a corporate environment?

#Microsoft#Azure#OneMinuteOfAzure#Adventcalender#AzurePrivateLink

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December 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Today’s window in One Minute of Azure reveals Network Security Groups (NSG), for managing traffic flow in your workloads.

What’s a NSG rule you have created more than once?

#Microsoft#Azure#OneMinuteOfAzure#Adventcalender#MicrosoftAzure#Networking
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Learn Azure Network security groups in 60 Seconds | One Minute of Azure
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December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Opening door number 4 in One Minute of Azure: Virtual Network. Your own private cloud space for secure workloads.

What’s a VNet-planning tip you always follow?

#Microsoft#Azure#OneMinuteOfAzure#AzureVNet#Cloud#Networking#AzureTips#Adventcalender

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Learn Azure Virtual Networks in 60 Seconds | One Minute of Azure
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December 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM