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Azure Virtual WAN – What’s new and by the numbers

Leave a Comment / 9. November 2019

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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Automating Conditional Access using Graph API

Leave a Comment / 9. November 2019

As part of the new annoucements from Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft now launched the ability to create Conditional Access Policies using the Graph API which is now available under the beta API. The simplest way to get started with the Graph API is using the Graph Explorer https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer# in sign-in with a user account which has global admin …

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Setting up Azure AD native authentication with Azure VPN Gateway

Leave a Comment / 8. November 2019

As part of the announcements from Ignite, Microsoft now released a public preview of the native Azure AD authentication on VPN Gateway. Up until now it has been either that you use a certificate based authentication or using RADIUS. Which has been a difficult sell since many VPN 3.party providers do pretty well the authentication …

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Introducing the NVv4 Azure Virtual Machines

Leave a Comment / 6. November 2019

As part of Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced the public preview of the NVv4 Azure Virtual Machines. Which is featuring AMD EPYC 7002 processors and virtualized Radeon MI25 GPU. Which will come in the following instance types: Now the cool thing is that this is the first set of virtual machines using GPU partitioning on Hyper-V. Which is …

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The biggest announcements from Microsoft Ignite – Microsoft Azure

Leave a Comment / 4. November 2019

Didn’t get to Microsoft Ignite? fear not, this is a summary of the biggest announcements from Microsoft Ignite.so far, and will be updated during the week with the new services. Microsoft Spring Cloud in Public Preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/spring-cloud/ Microsoft Azure Arc – Hybrid Azure Management Where Microsoft is extended the management capabilities of ARM into any …

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What is Azure ARC?

Leave a Comment / 4. November 2019

For those at Ignite today, there was some pretty big announcements from Microsoft and especially around hybrid management. Now previosly AWS and Google has had the upper hand with their edge funtionality mainly that they can provide their own services running on existing virtualized platforms and Microsoft has only had Azure Stack which means that …

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Bulding VDI Solutions in Microsoft Azure and now with Windows Virtual Desktop

Leave a Comment / 20. October 2019

A couple of months back I wrote an article about building VDI Solutions in Microsoft Azure https://msandbu.org/building-vdi-solutions-in-azure-what-options-do-we-have/ and last week I was speaking about Windows Virtual Desktop at an event at Microsoft Norway, where my sessions is about our experience with Windows Virtual Desktop. Now my previous blogpost didn’t emphaize to much on WVD to I wanted to …

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DNS over HTTPS is coming, that’s a good thing right?

Leave a Comment / 8. October 2019

There has been a lot of fuzz around DNS over HTTPs shortnamed (DOH) lately. For those that haven’t read about what is going on or what DoH is, you can read more on Mozilla’s blogpost here about the subject –> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-over-https/ and also Google’s approach here –>  https://security.googleblog.com/2019/06/google-public-dns-over-https-doh.html DOH as a protocol has already been rolled out …

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Demystify Zero-trust design – Never trust, always verify

Leave a Comment / 7. October 2019

Zero-trust is something I’ve talked about and heard many vendors talk about for many years already. These days vendors are using this as leverage to sell their products to “Implement Zero-Trust based networks” therefore I wanted to use this blog post as a way for myself to dig deeper into Zero-Trust and its core design principles, …

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