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After some issues with a deployment I wanted to describe some tips to troubleshoot this since most docs were useless. Here I am going to cover how to configure Syslog to forward logs to Azure Monitor Agent and ultimately send them to Microsoft Sentinel. Also address common troubleshooting steps, particularly how to manage disk space …

Azure Monitor Agent Syslog forwarding to Sentinel Troubleshooting and Disk usage Read More »

With the release of Microsoft Private Access earlier this month, I wanted to test it a bit further to verify what kind of performance/bandwith it can handle. Therefore I decided to set up a test enviroment in Microsoft Azure consists of multiple virtual networks within the same region close to the PoP (Point of Presence) …

Entra ID Private Access – Performance Read More »

Even if many of us are in vacation mode, it is not exactly quiet around Generativ AI. Therefore I wanted to write a little update on what is happening on this front. From what is happening from the cloud providers, LLM companies, ecosystem and what the future holds.  Firstly, there is a lot of development …

Generative AI – Summer Edition 2024 – What´s new? Read More »

Earlier today, companies around the world woke up to multiple of their Windows hosts suffering from BSOD, the culprit? an Update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensors. Causing services around the world to go down. Many services are suffering because of this. Microsoft IT outage latest: Airports, businesses and broadcasters including Sky News experiencing issues worldwide | …

BSOD because of CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor and workaround Read More »

With the evolution of personal Generative AI and the introduction of Small Language Models (SLMs) that can now be run locally on personal devices, there are numerous options for running Generative AI on your own hardware. Tools like Ollama, vLLM, and LMStudio, along with various models such as Codestral, Phi-3, LLaMA3, and Google Gemma, are …

New VDI persona – The GenAI developer? Read More »

I wanted to write this blog post as a follow-up to the EUC conference in Norway last week. This was the first EUC conference ever held in Norway, where I delivered the keynote on the future of the workplace and client environments. I’d like to share my thoughts on what the future might look like. …

What does the future workspace look like? Read More »

While there has been a lot of focus on Windows Recall the last week about the security issues (which I will get back to later in this article) however there are few of the articles that actually describe how the technology actually works, therefore I wanted to use this article to write down my current …

How does Windows Recall work? Read More »

In preparation for a presentation that I had today at Microsoft Secure in Norway, where I had a talk about how to get the most out of Copilot for Security I needed to do a lot of research. Therefore, I wanted to share some of the research here, based upon my findings on how Copilot …

How does Copilot for Security work? and is it worth it? Read More »

Last year I wrote a blog article about Microsoft Global Secure Access and what kind of services it provides. Therefore, I decided to write an example about use-cases for it in preparation for a session I have tomorrow Agenda – xenappblog you can also view the PPT here –> community/GSA-MariusSandbu.pptx at main · msandbu/community (github.com) …

ZTNA for Azure Private Endpoint using Entra Private Access Read More »

Yesterday I had a tweet that blew up quite quickly, because I was doing some research for a customer to uncover the cost for a new VDI solution. While in hindsight I should have been a lot more accurate on the tweet, but I’ll explain. The goal of this post is to compare a cost …

Citrix vs Azure Virtual Desktop on-premises what’s the cost difference? Read More »