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What’s new from Microsoft Ignite 2021

Today Microsoft Ignite 2021 Fall edition kicked off and I’ve tried to summarize some of the biggest new capabilities that have been released. NOTE: All announcements from Microsoft Ignite har grouped together in this Ignite Book of News, which you can read here –> Microsoft Ignite Book of News Microsoft Azure Azure Cognitive Services new preview …

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Currently, there is a worldwide issue ongoing with Microsoft Azure which affects currently all operations done against Windows Virtual Machines. When someone is trying to start/stop virtual machines you get the following error message. Update: The issue has been solved, and operations against Windows Virtual Machines are working again. No version found in the artifact repository …

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Summary of VMworld 2021 – Announcements

Today has been busy with numerous announcements from VMware during the VMworld keynote. Therefore, I wanted to write down the announcements and what it all means (without the marketing fluff) just to get a better understanding of what the unique features/enhancements/products are. NOTE: This post is currently being updated with more content as soon as …

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New episode of Cloudfirst podcast

Earlier today we launched a new episode of the Cloudfirst podcast, where we dug deep into hybrid clouds, use-cases, technology, and all-around new stuff that has been happening the last couple of weeks.  

Launch of Cloudfirst Podcast!

After close to 1,000 blog posts over the last 11 years and during all that time, I’ve never felt comfortable enough to jump over to another medium such as video or audio. But… after reaching a certain age I decided why not? There is always a lot of content/thoughts/ideas that I’ve been wanting to share …

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Protecting of Critical operations of backup using Azure Resource Guard

One of the common use cases for 3. party backup tools in Azure, is the separation of duties. In theory, if someone has higher-level access to an Azure environment, they can delete the backup/recovery vault and then the backup files. There are of course some safeguards in place such as soft delete but someone with …

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Serious Sam – CVE-2021-36934

A couple of days ago a new vulnerability was found in Windows 10, where the SAM (Security Account Manager) database was readable for regular local users given that it could open the database from shadow copies. This was found by (Jonas L (@jonasLyk) / Twitter) And this only affects Windows 10 version 1809 and newer operating …

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Introducing Windows 365

Earlier today, Microsoft announced Windows 365 (Which has been known by some already as Cloud PC) which is Microsoft first DaaS (Desktop as a Service) offering provides from within Microsoft 365. So what is Windows 365? It is a service within Microsoft 365 which is aimed at providing a Windows Machine from Microsoft Azure. Microsoft …

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