s Last week I had a session at the Norwegian Citrix User Group about best practices regarding setting up Citrix in Azure, while it was only in Norwegian, I also wanted to share some of the tips and tricks here as well. 1: Planning and Limitations Before any project, you need to understand what kind […]
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Currently, there is a worldwide issue ongoing with Microsoft Azure which affects currently all operations done against Windows Virtual Machines. When someone is trying to start/stop virtual machines you get the following error message. Update: The issue has been solved, and operations against Windows Virtual Machines are working again. No version found in the artifact repository
Today has been busy with numerous announcements from VMware during the VMworld keynote. Therefore, I wanted to write down the announcements and what it all means (without the marketing fluff) just to get a better understanding of what the unique features/enhancements/products are. NOTE: This post is currently being updated with more content as soon as
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Earlier today we launched a new episode of the Cloudfirst podcast, where we dug deep into hybrid clouds, use-cases, technology, and all-around new stuff that has been happening the last couple of weeks.
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After close to 1,000 blog posts over the last 11 years and during all that time, I’ve never felt comfortable enough to jump over to another medium such as video or audio. But… after reaching a certain age I decided why not? There is always a lot of content/thoughts/ideas that I’ve been wanting to share
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One of the common use cases for 3. party backup tools in Azure, is the separation of duties. In theory, if someone has higher-level access to an Azure environment, they can delete the backup/recovery vault and then the backup files. There are of course some safeguards in place such as soft delete but someone with
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How to move your VDI workloads to the Public Cloud? A couple of weeks ago, I had a webinar together with Goliath Technologies about what we need to consider before moving your VDI workloads to Public Cloud. In this blog post I will try and write a summary of the various stages that should be
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A couple of days ago a new vulnerability was found in Windows 10, where the SAM (Security Account Manager) database was readable for regular local users given that it could open the database from shadow copies. This was found by (Jonas L (@jonasLyk) / Twitter) And this only affects Windows 10 version 1809 and newer operating
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Earlier today, Microsoft announced Windows 365 (Which has been known by some already as Cloud PC) which is Microsoft first DaaS (Desktop as a Service) offering provides from within Microsoft 365. So what is Windows 365? It is a service within Microsoft 365 which is aimed at providing a Windows Machine from Microsoft Azure. Microsoft
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UPDATE: Microsoft also announced CVE-2021-34481 which shows that there are more issues with the print spooler service –> https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-34481 general recommendation is to disable print spooler. Tonight, Microsoft finally came out with the patches for the PrintNightmare vulnerability which you can view here –> CVE-2021-34527 – Security Update Guide – Microsoft – Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution
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