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Published inJan 2022
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ISBN-139781801073301
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Steve Miles
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Steve Miles

Steve Miles is a Microsoft security and Azure/hybrid MVP and MCT with over 20 years of experience in security, networking, storage, end user computing, and cloud solutions. His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments. His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure security, identity, network, M365, and D365. He also holds multiple security, networking vendor, and other public cloud provider certifications.
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Azure Cloud Shell

Azure Cloud Shell is a cross-platform, interactive, hosted Shell and scripting environment that Microsoft provides hosted on Ubuntu containers; you can think of this as a Shell environment as a Service.

Cloud Shell enables a browser-based CLI. The benefit of using Cloud Shell means that you do not need to download, install, or update any CLI management tools in a local Shell environment on a device or machine. Being a cross-platform management tool, all you need is a browser to run shell commands and the PowerShell Az module.

Imagine that you were to move between devices; you might not have access to the necessary CLI tools and you may not have the PowerShell modules or updates. This means that your scripts may fail to run, or your interactive commands error as they are intended for a different version than you have installed locally. However, with Cloud Shell, wherever you have access to a browser, you have access to a CLI; you will always have a consistent...

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Steve Miles

Steve Miles is a Microsoft security and Azure/hybrid MVP and MCT with over 20 years of experience in security, networking, storage, end user computing, and cloud solutions. His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments. His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure security, identity, network, M365, and D365. He also holds multiple security, networking vendor, and other public cloud provider certifications.
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