Amazon has started shipping its Outpost offering. For those that haven’t heard about AWS Outpost it is a complete rack solution which allows you to run Amazon services within your own datacenter. Essentially Amazon ships a rack of servers which you can then insert into your own enviroment and connect it to your own network. …
An announcement that came out last week, was that we now have the ability to use our Azure AD Credentials to login to a Windows Server based VM running in Azure. Previosly this has only been available for Linux based VM’s running in Azure but also Windows 10. A Big news is also that Microsoft …
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This is a question that I have been asked a lot lately, and especially now when I’ve been doing talks about Azure Sentinel. Therefore I wanted to write to blogpost for, to essentially get down my thoughts and ideas but also try to give some good descriptions about this topic, because right now there is …
Looking on social media and the news, I just noticed the announcement that the City of New Orleans was targeted by a cyberattack. They took down the website and that the employees there were instructed to unplug their computers.So far not that much is known, this was published on Twitter earlier today. With the information …
As part of Veeam Office 365 Backup Update 4, Veeam also introduced a new feature called Object Storage Repository which is somwhat similiar to the new object storage support they introduced within B&R but still entirely different at the same time. The similiar part is that it allows for backup data to be moved to a …
Looking back at the announcements at Google Next, Microsoft Ignite and now AWS Re:Invent the trend is clear, they want to sell us their PaaS services within our own datacenter (or Private Cloud). Since many companies today which cannot adopt or see that Public Cloud is not something they are aiming towards are always looking …
When Microsoft released the new Azure datacenters in Norway last week, which was great news for Norwegian customers, which have now been waiting for the datacenter to be available on Norwegian Soil. Theyu also published a little roadmap on what is coming moving forward. Looking at the service availability you can see that most of …
Not all Azure datacenters are equal – What to consider with regards to DR Read More »
I’ve previously written about Azure AD Domain Services and what you need to consider before using it –> https://msandbu.org/things-you-need-to-consider-before-using-azure-ad-domain-services/ now one of the new features which was announced during Microsoft Ignite was something called Azure Active Directory Domain Services Resource Forest (which is now in Public Preview) as an additional option when deploying Azure AD DS. NB: Now …
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One of the new features that was released from Microsoft the last couple of weeks was something called Azure Private Link. Private Link is a new feature which allows you to securely connect to PaaS services or a custom service internally from within a VNET. By default, PaaS services such as Storage or Web Apps are …
This is a follow-up from an blog post I had written earlier about Azure Virtual WAN( https://msandbu.org/azure-virtual-wan-and-putting-the-pieces-together/) and in combination with some of the new announcements that came out of Ignite. As a quick refresh of Azure Virtual WAN: With the release of Azure Virtual WAN, Microsoft now supports SD-WAN functionality of out the box for the “middle-mile” …
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