Microsoft Managed Desktops – What is it and where do partners fit in ?

Leave a Comment / 28. September 2018

A week ago Microsoft announced their new service offering called Microsoft Managed Desktop, which is essentially a service where Microsoft will manage your endpoints trough a lifecycle management together with an OEM vendors (Currently only Microsoft based devices) So think about all the products in EMS E5, such as Intune, Azure AD, Autopilot, Windows Defender …

Microsoft Managed Desktops – What is it and where do partners fit in ? Read More »

Windows Virtual Desktop – What is it actually and limitations

Leave a Comment / 28. September 2018

One of the other big announcements at Microsoft Ignite was the Azure Windows Virtual Desktop, which essentially seems to me as a DaaS (Desktop as a Service) offering on top of Microsoft Azure. So what is it actually and how does it compare to the older service that they had which was Azure Remote App. …

Windows Virtual Desktop – What is it actually and limitations Read More »

Announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2018

Leave a Comment / 24. September 2018

After a pretty packed keynote, all the information from Microsoft started flowing out and we got bombarded with information about all the big announcements. So this is a summary of all the announcements so far. You can also get a compressed PDF file from Microsoft containing all the new announcements –> https://news.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/507/2018/09/IGNITEBOOKOFNEWS-5ba8f830261da.pdf Some news was released …

Announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2018 Read More »

Teradici and Google Cloud Platform with NVIDIA GPU

Leave a Comment / 6. September 2018

Two years ago I wrote an article about running Teradici’s Cloud Access Software on Microsoft Azure with the release of N-series instances (https://msandbu.org/test-run-of-teradici-cloud-access-software-on-azure-n-series/) now the issue with the N-series is that they don’t have the ability to provide SSD functionality, which was one of my biggest concerns. Now in a later stage, Microsoft has now …

Teradici and Google Cloud Platform with NVIDIA GPU Read More »

24 hours of network traffic analysis from Microsoft Azure

Leave a Comment / 10. August 2018

Did you know that your virtual machines are targeted for attacks before they actually come online? For virtual machines running on Microsoft Azure, you can notice quite fast when they are online and ports like 3389 / RDP is publically available you get a lot of failed authentication attempts quite fast, flooding with random username and …

24 hours of network traffic analysis from Microsoft Azure Read More »

Microsoft Azure and Security Best Pratices – Part 2 Infrastructure

Leave a Comment / 6. August 2018

This is the next post on my blog posts on Microsoft Azure and Security Best Practices, my first post focusing on Identity can be found here –> http://msandbu.org/microsoft-azure-and-security-best-pratices-part-1-identity/ One of the main concerns about moving the workload to the public cloud is security, basically, you now can manage your entire infrastructure from a self-service portal or …

Microsoft Azure and Security Best Pratices – Part 2 Infrastructure Read More »

Scroll to Top