As part of the announcements from Ignite, Microsoft now released a public preview of the native Azure AD authentication on VPN Gateway. Up until now it has been either that you use a certificate based authentication or using RADIUS. Which has been a difficult sell since many VPN 3.party providers do pretty well the authentication …
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As part of Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced the public preview of the NVv4 Azure Virtual Machines. Which is featuring AMD EPYC 7002 processors and virtualized Radeon MI25 GPU. Which will come in the following instance types: Now the cool thing is that this is the first set of virtual machines using GPU partitioning on Hyper-V. Which is …
Didn’t get to Microsoft Ignite? fear not, this is a summary of the biggest announcements from Microsoft Ignite.so far, and will be updated during the week with the new services. Microsoft Spring Cloud in Public Preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/spring-cloud/ Microsoft Azure Arc – Hybrid Azure Management Where Microsoft is extended the management capabilities of ARM into any …
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For those at Ignite today, there was some pretty big announcements from Microsoft and especially around hybrid management. Now previosly AWS and Google has had the upper hand with their edge funtionality mainly that they can provide their own services running on existing virtualized platforms and Microsoft has only had Azure Stack which means that …
A couple of months back I wrote an article about building VDI Solutions in Microsoft Azure https://msandbu.org/building-vdi-solutions-in-azure-what-options-do-we-have/ and last week I was speaking about Windows Virtual Desktop at an event at Microsoft Norway, where my sessions is about our experience with Windows Virtual Desktop. Now my previous blogpost didn’t emphaize to much on WVD to I wanted to …
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Last week I had a webinar about “Catching the bad guys using Azure Sentinel”, where one of my slides I mentioned about how you should design a Azure Sentinel solution which I wanted to cover more in depth here in this blogpost. Now the basic thing you need to understand is that Sentinel is a …
There has been a lot of fuzz around DNS over HTTPs shortnamed (DOH) lately. For those that haven’t read about what is going on or what DoH is, you can read more on Mozilla’s blogpost here about the subject –> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-over-https/ and also Google’s approach here –> https://security.googleblog.com/2019/06/google-public-dns-over-https-doh.html DOH as a protocol has already been rolled out …
DNS over HTTPS is coming, that’s a good thing right? Read More »
Zero-trust is something I’ve talked about and heard many vendors talk about for many years already. These days vendors are using this as leverage to sell their products to “Implement Zero-Trust based networks” therefore I wanted to use this blog post as a way for myself to dig deeper into Zero-Trust and its core design principles, …
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One of the best pratices that have been defined for Log Analytics in Azure is to have a few workspaces as possible. Now with the introduction of Azure Sentinel as well, there more sentralized set of logs you have the easier it is to build hunting queries and such in the data that is ingested. …
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I always love this comic strip from XKCD when it comes to generate a strong password. We are prone to choose simple solutions and taking shortcuts to make it easier for ourselves. Especially this time and day where we have many many many online services that we use on a daily basis. Of course having …
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