I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. With more and more organizations now using Log Analytics services in Azure because of usage together with Azure Sentinel, using Desktop Analytics or just for diagnostics for PaaS services that are running in Azure. I’ve seen a lot of organizations just setting up multiple Log Analytics …
Last week I encountered a lot of unknown traffic aimed at our of Citrix ADC / NetScalers at one of our customers, first I was thinking that someone has managed to compromise our instance, but early findings didn’t see anything. Microsoft also reported that there was a lot of unknown traffic going outbound on UDP …
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I was working with one of our customers the other day and they were in the process of planning their IT-strategy for 2021 and asked me, what should we focus on in 2021 or what can you see from the crystal ball on where the technology is taking us in 2021? This question made me …
Everything can be found with Wireshark! I was recently involved in a scenario where I was tasked at troubleshooting why some features were not working in Azure, related to traffic flow between a service in Azure and virtual machine on-premises. For those that are used to “Cisco” troubleshooting or network troubleshooting, moving that knowledge to Azure …
This blog post is a summary of the content that I went trough on my session today on Microsoft Meets Community 3rd Edition – Where I had the session Migrate to WVD and Beyond. Essentially looking into how to migrate to WVD and migrating other workloads from an existing datacenter and VDI platform. (https://info.microsoft.com/WE-WVD-WBNR-FY21-12Dec-11-MicrosoftmeetsCommunityWindowsVirtualDesktop-SRDEM48757_LP01Registration-ForminBody.html?wt.mc_id=AID3017714_QSG_490080) You can view the …
(Yes Denmark datacenters are missing from the picture currently 🙂 Last week, Microsoft published a press release stating that they in 2021 will go live with two datacenters in Sweden (https://news.microsoft.com/europe/2020/11/24/microsoft-announces-investments-to-accelerate-swedens-digital-transformation-and-plans-to-open-its-sustainable-datacenter-region-in-2021/) and then today announced that they will be opening datacenters in Denmark as well. This means that Microsoft will be providing cloud-based services such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 from datacenters on Swedish …
A lot of buzz these days from Gartner and many of the cloud providers and even now the APM vendors as well is pushing into the market. To be honest it took me some time to understand what AIOps actually was and what kind of capabilities it part of the definition, so therefore I wanted …
UPDATE Post: 05/05/2020 The featured picture here is taken from an environment I worked on, where attackers had compromised a set of publicly available servers in Azure through a known vulnerability in Jenkins. Where the attackers got access to a public-facing VM and then using root access got access to the other servers in the same …
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One of the new features which has been introduced in preview now is Azure Monitor Log Analytics data export. This allows (As it’s being collected), data from selected tables in your Log Analytics workspace can be continuously exported to an Azure storage account hourly or to Azure Event Hubs in near-real-time. So instead of defining that …
One of the things I always consider when looking to solve a specific problem is what kind of tools is best suited for the job. Not always trying to push the same solution to every problem, issue or challenges that the customers are facing. A particular topic of this which comes up everynow and then …
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