A long time ago I wrote a blog post around Microsoft RDS vs Citrix XenDesktop at the time where I looked at the overall functionality and end-user experience, which you can read about here https://msandbu.org/so-why-choose-citrix-over-microsoft-rds-2/ (and now fast forward to 2022 Read more…
With the recent announcement of a new partnership between Microsoft and Oracle for Oracle database services, I wanted to look further into setting up log collection from Oracle Cloud to Microsoft Sentinel. When I started digging there wasn’t much information Read more…
In the Summer of 2021, Microsoft announced that they stopped one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded (Microsoft says it mitigated one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded – The Verge) saying they were able to mitigate a 2.4Tbps Read more…
I was currently in a project where we needed to have a multi-tenant Microsoft Sentinel environment. We had multiple Sentinel / Log Analytics workspaces where we needed to do cross queries to look at the datasets which is typically the case Read more…
Yesterday, many Norwegian websites were targeted in a DDoS attack by an activist group called Killnet as you can read more about here –> Norway hit with cyberattack, temporarily suspending service (yahoo.com) Killnet does primarily DDoS attacks using either flooding with Read more…
One of the sessions that I had the Nordic Infrastructure Conference was about how to provide secure access for users in 2022, which I also wanted to go into more depth here to showcase what kind of options we have Read more…
Consider the following, you are building a new set of services that is using the Public Cloud and the service consists of different resources such as virtual machines, PaaS services, and container-based workloads. You want to leverage PaaS services to Read more…
One of the things I do miss from the old days with System Center Operations Manager, was the ability to create distributed applications. Which allowed us to drag components together that was monitored as a service. This could be components Read more…
When using PaaS services in a hub-and-spoke architecture a best-practice approach is to use Private Endpoints for accessing those services. This allows us to ensure that these services are only available internally in the Azure VNET and not publicly available. Read more…
Last week I got contacted by a customer who was a bit stressed because someone had tampered with their environment in Azure, and they had no idea who it was and what they have been doing. Before I begin going Read more…