Author: Marius Sandbu
Cloud SIEM with Azure Sentinel
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…
Read More »Moving from ADC to Service Mesh
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…
Read More »What is Windows Virtual Desktop and Traffic Flow
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…
Read More »Getting started with Azure AD Auth with Azure Files
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….
Read More »Moved my blog to Cloudflare!
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…
Read More »My talks at NIC (Nordic Infrastructure Conference)
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…
Read More »Building Lego with Terraform on Azure – Part One
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…
Read More »Building a highly available Azure AD Connect
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…
Read More »Office 365 Network Performance Assessment
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…
Read More »Enabling TLS 1.3 on Citrix NetScaler
There has been a lot of work in the new version of TLS namely version 1.3, where the focus has been mostly on security and reducing the unnecessary handshakes between client and servers to optimize performance. Hence the reason why there is a…
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