How does your data get encrypted within Microsoft Azure? How can I ensure that my data is safe on a cloud provider? Lately, I’ve been working with a lot of customers asking about how we can ensure that data is encrypted and to what extent data is encrypted? When moving to a cloud-based environment and …
For customers that are using Azure Automation in many cases have been using it to build runbooks to automate against Azure environments (using a built-in AzureRunAsAccount) which is automatically created using the Azure Portal wizard. This creates a service principal in Azure Active Directory and gets by default contributor access to the environment. This configuration, …
Vulnerability CVE-2021-42306 CredManifest in Azure Automation and how to fix it Read More »
Many might remember the day that Windows Servers stood still in Microsoft Azure because Microsoft made a change to the backend artifact repository for the Microsoft Azure agent. Now many are not that familiar with what that agent does and how it integrates into the Azure Fabric Controller, so I decided to do a little …
The big battle! between Citrix MCS vs PVS which has been an ongoing battle for some time for the Citrix admins. Now since I have been working mostly with Cloud the last years I didn’t get into that debate since Citrix has only supported MCS in Cloud (until now) … Therefore, in this blog post, …
I was recently in a scenario where we needed to do some testing to integrate Service Now into Cloud App Security (MCAS) which I now know as Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. But anyway… MCAS uses API integration to collect logs, user activity from supported SaaS services, such as Service Now which is one of …
Today Microsoft Ignite 2021 Fall edition kicked off and I’ve tried to summarize some of the biggest new capabilities that have been released. NOTE: All announcements from Microsoft Ignite har grouped together in this Ignite Book of News, which you can read here –> Microsoft Ignite Book of News Microsoft Azure Azure Cognitive Services new preview …
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 …
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.
