Andrew
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Azure Monitor – Virtual Machines
Today I wanted to talk about Azure Monitor and one of the new functionalities the Azure Team has added – Virtual Machine Monitoring. This is a perfect example of a continuous improvement and basing new features on user feedback, great job Azure! Now, to get started monitoring your virtual machines we will need to check…
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How Can you Manage Multiple Providers in Azure?
If you are running Azure infrastructure and have multiple providers that reach into your tenant, you know how difficult it is to log, audit, and monitor what your providers are actually changing inside your subscriptions. From the opposite view, if you’re a solution provider and you have to reach into multiple clients Azure subscriptions to…
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Azure Subscriptions
We talk about inter-related topics such as RBAC and cost control and go down the rabbit hole that is Azure subscription types and states. Join us for a fun chat about more Azure awesomeness!
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Can you Enable SMBv1 on Azure VMs?
Occasionally an enterprise environment will have a requirement to retain legacy authentication systems that may need to use SMBv1. What are the options when you move your services and infrastructure to Azure… When first looking at this challenge we really (really!) need to acknowledge the dangers and risks that when dealing with SMBv1… Read the…
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Azure Active Directory Guest Users Configuration
Today we’ll take a look at Azure Active Directory and Guest Users. I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the common questions that a lot of companies have. With the forced remote working situation world-wide right now, a lot of companies have either jumped into remote user management, or expanded it rapidly.…
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Virtual Machine Scale Sets – What are they for anyways?
Today we’re going to talk a little bit about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. What they do for us and why we would want to deploy VMs using scale sets. I’ve encountered a few situations where a business has deployed multiple systems to try and handle the growth of their systems during peak demand times……
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How to Remove an Email Account from Windows 10 Email & Accounts
Today’s tip is something that had me stumped for a few minutes, finding it difficult to track down how to remove an old email account from Windows 10. When adding an account to Outlook, the credential will appear in the Windows 10 Settings > Email & Accounts. Though not Azure focused, you can run into…
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How to get Security Alerts for Environments in Azure DevTest Labs
One of the challenges that existed in Azure DevTest Labs previously was that we could not get Azure Security Center Alerts about issues or other security analysis alerts for those environments. Now, Azure has opened up the abilities of Azure Security Center Alerts so that we can actively monitor… Read the full article at the…
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Active Directory vs the Unknown – Part 2
Last time we left off having a Cannot Continue error while establishing a domain trust across a WAN link and with some unknown variables involved; but we had to give it a shot in this case. The good news is that we have the power of community and Microsoft to help us discover based on…
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Active Directory Trusts vs the Unknown
While working on a project to get two different versions of Active Directory to talk nicely to each other, there were some good challenges arise. The most interesting has been some investigation around ports, Network Security Groups, Azure Firewall…. Read the full article at the link below….