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Windows Server on Azure - SMBv1

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…

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Posted on 12:14 pm
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Virtual Machine Scale Sets

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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Posted on 1:32 pm
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Azure Security Center Alerts for DevTest Labs Environments

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…

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Posted on 8:43 pm
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Windows Server Active Directory Trust Relationship

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 our detailed ‘Cannot Continue’ error….

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Posted on 7:58 pm
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Trust Relationship in Windows Server Active Directory

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….

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Posted on 5:28 pm
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Azure Monitoring

Azure Monitor – Service Health Overview

Azure Monitor – Service Health blade can help you get a quick overview of your infrastructure’s health in the Azure datacenters. The old saying of ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ definitely applies. Many enterprise customers will have their infrastructure distributed…

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Posted on 11:54 am
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Azure VM Run PowerShell on VM Console

The Case of Where’s My Virtual Machine?

During the course of working with a client during an implementation, we discovered some pre-existing custom configurations at the VM level that when the virtual machine was rebooted….

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Posted on 10:29 am