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Awarded with Veeam Vanguard and Citrix Technology Professional for 2019

Leave a Comment / 5. March 2019 5. March 2019

The last couple of weeks I’ve been honored to receive two community awards from vendors Veeam (Vanguard) and Citrix (Technology Professional) for 2019! I’ve been fortunuate to be part of both these programs the last couple of years now and both vendors are heavily invested into their community programs, which allows us as members to particiate in deep …

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Cloud SIEM with Azure Sentinel

Leave a Comment / 3. March 2019 3. March 2019

Today Microsoft released Azure Sentinel, a SIEM service running in the Cloud. Now looking at Sentinel is it not a completely new service it is built upon a lot of existing services in Azure such as Security Center, Log Analytics workspace which is being used to query and structure the data underneath. Still it brings …

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Moving from ADC to Service Mesh

Leave a Comment / 1. March 2019 1. March 2019

Over the last years now I’ve been working a lot with different ADC platforms. ADC is a term used to describe a next-generation load balancer (according to Gartner), where we have vendors such as F5, Citrix, KEMP, and so on. Now the ADC market is no longer a single, undivided market serving traditional data-center-deployed application …

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What is Windows Virtual Desktop and Traffic Flow

Leave a Comment / 28. February 2019 28. February 2019

When I first write about Windows Virtual Desktop late last year after Iginite and the announcements came out, a lot has changed! (here is the originial post –> https://msandbu.org/windows-virtual-desktop-what-is-it-actually-and-limitations/ ) Overview of Windows Virtual Desktop Much of the announcement then was around Windows 10 Multi-user which is still going to be a Azure only offering and that hasen’t changed. …

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Getting started with Azure AD Auth with Azure Files

Leave a Comment / 28. February 2019 28. February 2019

As I’m writing this it should be noted that the feature itself is still in preview. Azure files has been an awesome feature that provides SMB 3 based file share to both internet based clients but also Virtual Machines running in Microsoft Azure. Azure Files has up until now has some limitations when it comes …

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Moved my blog to Cloudflare!

Leave a Comment / 28. February 2019 28. February 2019

Well technically I didn’t move anything, just moved the nameservers the domain used from Azure to Cloudflare but atleast I’ve did part, so I am technically at Cloudflare’s mercy… 🙂 For those who haven’t heard about Cloudflare, they host some of the best cloud DDoS protection features in the market.They are also known for CDN …

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My talks at NIC (Nordic Infrastructure Conference)

Leave a Comment / 11. February 2019 11. February 2019

Last week I had the pleasure of talking at NIC (Nordic Infrastructure Conference) where I had two talks. 1: Building Lego with Terraform on Microsoft Azure Where I take a closer look at ARM vs Terraform and how the different Hashicorp components fit into a multi-cloud ecosystem. Using tools like Consul and Vault to store …

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Building Lego with Terraform on Azure – Part One

Leave a Comment / 6. February 2019 6. February 2019

So this blog post (Part One of Two) has actually nothing to do with lego’s I just put it there for click-bait, but however it has something to do with the analogy. Working onlywith Cloud related projects these days, much of the work has now been translated from working with storage providers, configuration of networks …

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Building a highly available Azure AD Connect

Leave a Comment / 21. January 2019 21. January 2019

One of big obstacles with Hybrid Identity with Microsoft Azure these days is with syncronization and ensuring availaiblity for the bridge between on-prem Active Directory and Azure AD. Azure AD Connect has evolved alot over the last couple of years and have added many new features and ways to authenticate, but one of the big …

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Office 365 Network Performance Assessment

Leave a Comment / 17. January 2019 17. January 2019

Why is Office 365 so slow?….. Yesterday Microsoft released a new tool to help with the performance assessment of Office 365 which you can find here –> https://o365networkonboarding.azurewebsites.net/ Now this tool is initially aimed at locating the closest Service Front Door for Office 365 to help with guideance on how traffic should flow. Service Front Doors are essentially …

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