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Launch of Cloudfirst Podcast!

After close to 1,000 blog posts over the last 11 years and during all that time, I’ve never felt comfortable enough to jump over to another medium such as video or audio. But… after reaching a certain age I decided Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 8 months ago
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Protecting of Critical operations of backup using Azure Resource Guard

One of the common use cases for 3. party backup tools in Azure, is the separation of duties. In theory, if someone has higher-level access to an Azure environment, they can delete the backup/recovery vault and then the backup files. Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 10 months10 months ago
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How to move your VDI workloads to the Public Cloud?

How to move your VDI workloads to the Public Cloud? A couple of weeks ago, I had a webinar together with Goliath Technologies about what we need to consider before moving your VDI workloads to Public Cloud. In this blog Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 10 months ago
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Serious Sam – CVE-2021-36934

A couple of days ago a new vulnerability was found in Windows 10, where the SAM (Security Account Manager) database was readable for regular local users given that it could open the database from shadow copies. This was found by Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 10 months ago
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Introducing Windows 365

Earlier today, Microsoft announced Windows 365 (Which has been known by some already as Cloud PC) which is Microsoft first DaaS (Desktop as a Service) offering provides from within Microsoft 365. So what is Windows 365? It is a service Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 11 months10 months ago
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PrintNightmare CVE-2021-34527 – Patches

UPDATE: Microsoft also announced CVE-2021-34481 which shows that there are more issues with the print spooler service –> https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-34481 general recommendation is to disable print spooler. Tonight, Microsoft finally came out with the patches for the PrintNightmare vulnerability which you can view Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 11 months10 months ago
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Kaseya – Ransomware MSP attacks

Before the weekend, news came out that Kaseya (a known vendor in the RMM market and is commonly used by MSPs) was targeted as part of an attack by the ransomware group called REvil. Kaseya’s public statement and info here Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 11 months ago
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PrintNightmare – CVE-2021-1675

  UPDATE 2: Patches now released from Microsoft CVE-2021-34527 – Security Update Guide – Microsoft – Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability  (Still missing some operating system)  CVE updated to announce that Microsoft is releasing an update for several versions of Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 11 months11 months ago
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Azure IoT Central and Wife proximity detector

For the last 1,5 years now I’ve been working from home. While it has been a blessing and I’ve had more time to focus and spend time with our new four-legged friend. There has been one disadvantage, however…My home office Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 11 months ago
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Windows 11, is TPM required and how it will work in the Cloud?

When Windows 11 was announced, Microsoft made a huge change to its hardware requirements which was they will now require TPM 2.0 compatible chips on your machine to be able to run Windows 11. TPM today is required for a Read more…

By Marius Sandbu, 11 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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