UPDATE 2: Patches now released from Microsoft CVE-2021-34527 – Security Update Guide – Microsoft – Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (Still missing some operating system) CVE updated to announce that Microsoft is releasing an update for several versions of Window to address this vulnerability. Updates are not yet available for Windows 10 version 1607, […]
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For the last 1,5 years now I’ve been working from home. While it has been a blessing and I’ve had more time to focus and spend time with our new four-legged friend. There has been one disadvantage, however…My home office is in the basement, and our coffee machine is upstairs and every time I go
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When Windows 11 was announced, Microsoft made a huge change to its hardware requirements which was they will now require TPM 2.0 compatible chips on your machine to be able to run Windows 11. TPM today is required for a lot of other services in Windows like BitLocker Drive Encryption Windows Hello PINs and biometrics
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To be perfectly honest this is a blog post based upon my own personal research and not personal experience, where I’ve gone through and tested different solutions on how you can secure an Azure Kubernetes environment (and the workloads) A Brief overview of how the architecture is within AKS. Where Microsoft provides management of the
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As part of Azure Monitor, Microsoft has built an integration with different ITSM systems as part of something called ITSM Connector. There are four main systems that are supported as of now. ServiceNow System Center Service Manager Provance Cherwell Microsoft has also built a new integration for Secure Export (Azure Monitor ITSM Connector for ServiceNow
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After working with Microsoft Azure for over 10 years now, think this must be the one question that I’ve received the most “why is my VM running so slow in Azure?”. Companies that have been using Azure as a pure IaaS based platform and moved or built new virtual machines on the cloud platform would certainly
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In a cloud-based world, both for end-users and operator access to management layers the identity provider plays an important part to provide authentication/authorization/accounting and secure authentication mechanisms. Many organizations today use Azure Active Directory to provide these identity mechanisms for both end-users such as accessing Office 365 but also other SaaS based applications. Many also
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I’ve been working a lot with Windows Virtual Desktop (now called Azure Virtual Desktop) and the ecosystem surrounding it. One of the frequent questions I get when looking into evaluating AHV are: 1: should I use AVD or Citrix, VMware, or something else? 2: and if we are going to use AVD, how can we
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Last week Hashicorp released an updated version of the Azure AD Provider which is built upon the Microsoft Graph API (and will be moving away from the AzureAD API which will be deprecated by Microsoft summer next year. Therefore, I wanted to dive a bit into the Azure AD Provider and how you can use
When setting up a Kubernetes Cluster in Azure you have the option to deploy using two different network plugins. Either using Kubernetes Kubenet or Azure CNI. So, what are the main differences between these two? to be honest there is also a lot of other considerations as well. Since Kubernetes networking can be complex. Before
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