For a customer project I was working on a couple of issues came up with how to do backup of IaaS in Azure. First of was how we were to handle Disaster Recovery both on a Storage level and on Virtual Infrastructure secondly how to handle backup of virtual machines in Azure. Now my first […]
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A new dilemma that has come up the last couple of weeks with regards to COVID and more organizations now moving and starting to use public clouds to provide new solutions for employees to work from home, is the use of Disaster Recovery and public cloud. Now the title is a bit misleading, but looking
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In previous blog posts I’ve been writing a bit about the lack of image management options within WVD has (https://msandbu.org/bulding-vdi-solutions-in-microsoft-azure-and-now-with-windows-virtual-desktop/), so therefore we need to be creative in how to actually handle image management and updating. One of the options that I discuss in my post is the use of Packer. Packer is essentially is
Automating Windows Virtual Desktop Image build with Hashicorp Packer Read More »
Yesterday a big new vulnerability in the SMB protocol stack was published. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-0796, is not included with this month’s March 2020 Patch Tuesday updates, and is unclear when it will be patched. The vulnerability is due to an error when the vulnerable software handles a maliciously crafted compressed data packet. The information about
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With Microsoft now releasing Microsoft Edge built on top of Chromium which is an open-source browser project together with its own enterprise security features, I see it as the main browser for enterprises moving forward. So how do we get started roll-out Edge to the enterprise? Deployment As part of a deployment strategy, there are multiple
The Enterprise ready browser Microsoft Edge for business – How to configure for Edge Read More »
Within Microsoft Azure there are numerous storage options which can be used for different workloads such as Container workloads for stateful storage, or big data solutions which requires high IOPS for calculation of workloads or even traditional blob storage which is useful for backup or archive data. Even sometimes you would also need to build
Storage services and considerations for Microsoft Azure Read More »
In december I had a blogpost about the battle for Hybrid PaaS services https://msandbu.org/the-battle-for-hybrid-paas-is-here/ where I described some of the capabilities that the different cloud providers are aiming for when it comes to Hybrid PaaS services such as Google Anthos, Azure Arc and Amazon Outposts. So I wanted to do a update on that part and also
The battle for Hybrid PaaS and Kubernetes workloads? Read More »
In March 2020, Microsoft is going to release a update which will essentially disable the use of unsigned LDAP which will be the default. This means that you can no longer use bindings or services which binds to domain controllers over unsigned ldap on port 389. You can either use LDAPS over port 636 or
Upcoming change – Microsoft to disable use of unsigned LDAP port 389 Read More »
This was a topic that came up during a discussion earlier today, and looking at the Google Search Results on my blog It seems like that this is something that some people are looking for some answers for, so therefore I decided to write a blog post on this. So can we use Citrix NetScaler/ADC
Delivering Citrix ICA/HDX using Traffic Manager, Frontdoor or Azure VWAN? Read More »
I’ve previously written about the new upcoming NVv4 series virtual machine instances which are the new series of GPU based instances in Microsoft Azure which are now coming with AMD Radeon based GPU’s (https://msandbu.org/introducing-the-nvv4-azure-virtual-machines/) these new instances are the first coming with support for true GPU partitioning, which is a of somewhat similiar technology to
AMD Radeon GPU on Microsoft Azure – NVv4 Series and VDI Read More »
