After looking into the blog post announcements on VMware HCX after VMworld I decided to get a bit more info what HCX actually is. This blog post will try to summarize what it is and what it can do. HCX is not a single product, but a combination of multiple VMware products which will be …
Looking back at 2017 so far is has been alot of development from Microsoft when it comes to security products. Just by looking at the Microsoft Ignite which was a couple of weeks back most announcements were security focused with new products such as Azure ATP, improved version of Windows Defender ATP as well and …
One of the issues that has been with delivering Office 365 on a non-persistent Citrix environment is how to manage licensing and activation. Previously we needed to have a ADFS infrastructure in place with Group Policy to allow “Automatic Activation with federated credentials” to allow for seamless activation without the end-user to need to do …
Shared Computer support Office365 and Citrix with AD PTA Read More »
Earlier today, Microsoft had the opening keynote under Microsoft Ignite and with it came a bunch new announcements with services and updates to most of the different features as well. This blog post is to summarize all the updates that have been announced so far. Now if we look at the keynotes, there have been …
It has been a busy last month but finally I have some news to share. Lastly I have been working almost full time on Azure, AWS & GCP. As part of that experience I also get a lot of information about the different cloud providers, especially on the strenghts and weaknesses of each vendor. I …
Public Cloud Comparison on GCP, AWS, Azure and IBM. Read More »
The issue with sometimes having a virtual machine on Microsoft Azure is that if it is publicly accessable that the IP is uses is on a known IP range (Microsoft publishes the IP ranges here – –> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41653 which will make those IP addresses quite popular by hackers using different brute force mechansims. (Having a …
Just in time Access for Virtual Machines in Azure Read More »
For those who haven’t seen it yet, Microsoft this week announced Azure Container Instances which is a new way of delivering Container instances on Azure. Up until now Microsoft has had the ability to deliver Containers on Azure using Azure Container Service, where we specify which kind of orchestration engine we would like to use …
Why Azure Container Instances is a such a cool feature! Read More »
One of the things that you need to remember to have when moving to the public cloud is to do backup of your stateful virtual machines since this is not something that is included as part of the basic service that cloud platforms provide (Azure, Google and Amazon) for instance. NB: Azure has an Backup …
Creating Azure ARM template with Veeam Agent unattended setup Read More »
Previously I have blogged about the underlying architecture and features which is going to be part of Azure Stack → http://msandbu.org/what-is-azure-stack-and-want-is-the-architecture/ Microsoft recently announced the launch of Azure Stack as well → https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-stack-is-ready-to-order-now/ Responsibility model in Cloud Now I want to focus a bit on one aspect that was not included in the previous blogpost, …
This is a recap of the webinar me and a fellow CTP Dave Bretty, had earlier today on MYCUGC “Delivering and Optimizing Citrix from Microsoft Azure” since the webinar itself only covered a big overview of the big picture I decided to do some more work in-depth of the webinar. So therefore I’ve started on …
Running and optimizing Citrix in Microsoft Azure Read More »
