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What is Windows Virtual Desktop and Traffic Flow

Leave a Comment / 28. February 2019 28. February 2019

When I first write about Windows Virtual Desktop late last year after Iginite and the announcements came out, a lot has changed! (here is the originial post –> https://msandbu.org/windows-virtual-desktop-what-is-it-actually-and-limitations/ ) Overview of Windows Virtual Desktop Much of the announcement then was around Windows 10 Multi-user which is still going to be a Azure only offering and that hasen’t changed. …

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Getting started with Azure AD Auth with Azure Files

Leave a Comment / 28. February 2019 28. February 2019

As I’m writing this it should be noted that the feature itself is still in preview. Azure files has been an awesome feature that provides SMB 3 based file share to both internet based clients but also Virtual Machines running in Microsoft Azure. Azure Files has up until now has some limitations when it comes …

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Moved my blog to Cloudflare!

Leave a Comment / 28. February 2019 28. February 2019

Well technically I didn’t move anything, just moved the nameservers the domain used from Azure to Cloudflare but atleast I’ve did part, so I am technically at Cloudflare’s mercy… 🙂 For those who haven’t heard about Cloudflare, they host some of the best cloud DDoS protection features in the market.They are also known for CDN …

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My talks at NIC (Nordic Infrastructure Conference)

Leave a Comment / 11. February 2019 11. February 2019

Last week I had the pleasure of talking at NIC (Nordic Infrastructure Conference) where I had two talks. 1: Building Lego with Terraform on Microsoft Azure Where I take a closer look at ARM vs Terraform and how the different Hashicorp components fit into a multi-cloud ecosystem. Using tools like Consul and Vault to store …

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Building Lego with Terraform on Azure – Part One

Leave a Comment / 6. February 2019 6. February 2019

So this blog post (Part One of Two) has actually nothing to do with lego’s I just put it there for click-bait, but however it has something to do with the analogy. Working onlywith Cloud related projects these days, much of the work has now been translated from working with storage providers, configuration of networks …

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Building a highly available Azure AD Connect

Leave a Comment / 21. January 2019 21. January 2019

One of big obstacles with Hybrid Identity with Microsoft Azure these days is with syncronization and ensuring availaiblity for the bridge between on-prem Active Directory and Azure AD. Azure AD Connect has evolved alot over the last couple of years and have added many new features and ways to authenticate, but one of the big …

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Office 365 Network Performance Assessment

Leave a Comment / 17. January 2019 17. January 2019

Why is Office 365 so slow?….. Yesterday Microsoft released a new tool to help with the performance assessment of Office 365 which you can find here –> https://o365networkonboarding.azurewebsites.net/ Now this tool is initially aimed at locating the closest Service Front Door for Office 365 to help with guideance on how traffic should flow. Service Front Doors are essentially …

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Enabling TLS 1.3 on Citrix NetScaler

Leave a Comment / 15. January 2019 15. January 2019

There has been a lot of work in the new version of TLS namely version 1.3, where the focus has been mostly on security and reducing the unnecessary handshakes between client and servers to optimize performance. Hence the reason why there is a flash picture here, overall TLS 1.3 handshakes can reduce the time it …

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Setting up Self-Service Password Reset with Writeback to On-premises

Leave a Comment / 14. January 2019 14. January 2019

One of the important steps of achiving great user-experice is getting ease of access for end-users, including the ability to do self-service, which especially involved passwords which is the most common support issue that most support centers have. As part of Azure AD you have the ability to setup Self-Service Password Reset as long as …

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Bluemedora and Bindplane with Azure Monitor

Leave a Comment / 9. January 2019 9. January 2019

After been working with Log Analytics for some time, you get used to having the interface to query for the information you are looking for. In most cases you can collect any information you want using the Monitoring agent or from other parts of Azure (which have a direct integration to Log Analytics / Azure …

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