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Trouble with Exchange in 2022 – Cannot Convert 220101001 to long

Many Exchange admins woke up today and seeing that Exchange is no longer processing emails. This is because Microsoft Filtering Management Service is stopping because it cannot handle the new date format. The reason for this is because Microsoft is Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 6 months6 months ago
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Protection against Ransomware – 2021

UPDATE Post: 29/12/2021 In 2021 we have seen a higher increase in ransomware attacks, where companies are faced with their systems and data becoming encrypted and forcing them to pay a ransom to get access back to their data. Seeing an increased Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 6 months ago
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Log4Shell – Log4J CVE-2021-44228 Vulnerability

NB: Updated constantly Here is a summary of what Microsoft had of information https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2021/12/11/microsofts-response-to-cve-2021-44228-apache-log4j2/ * Over a period of the last 4 months, the library has been downloaded 28.6 million. * Ingenuity, the Mars 2020 Helicopter mission, is powered by it. * Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 7 months7 months ago
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Monitoring availability of Microsoft Azure and Office 365

Last week, Microsoft had an issue with an ISP in Norway which affected the availability of Azure and Office 365 services for Norwegian customers without it being reflected in any of the Azure Status Pages. Therefore, I wanted to provide Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 7 months7 months ago
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Encrypting of Data within Microsoft Azure

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 Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 7 months ago
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Vulnerability CVE-2021-42306 CredManifest in Azure Automation and how to fix it

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 Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 8 months ago
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Azure VM Guest Agent

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 Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 8 months8 months ago
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Citrix MCS vs PVS on Microsoft Azure

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 Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 8 months8 months ago
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Service Now and Cloud App Security (MCAS)

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 Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 8 months ago
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What’s new from Microsoft Ignite 2021

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 Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 8 months ago

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My name is Marius Sandbu. I'm working as a Cloud Evangelist at Sopra Steria Blogging about topics within Cloud, End-user computing and other related topics.

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