A couple of weeks ago I was contacted to help figure out why DNS lookup was failing “sometimes” for services that were configured using private endpoints. This was somewhat difficult to troubleshoot since this happened “sometimes” and therefore it took some time to figure out what was going on. This happened when we tried to […]
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During this weekend I started working on a simple PoC, can we use ChatGPT with some speech recognition software to work as a virtual assistant similar to Alexa or Siri? First of we need to have the ability for some code to trigger based upon certain keywords or patterns. This is where OpenAI functions comes
In this dynamic landscape of LLMs with new versions popping up everywhere, I have personally been really confused in terms of which of them are best? how do we benchmark them? what does the number of parameters impact the model? Earlier today I saw a new LLM being published called FreeWilly (Meet FreeWilly, Our Large
Benchmarking LLMs and what is the best LLM? Read More »
Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), previously recognized as MobileIron, has a security issue that cyber attackers can exploit over the internet without requiring any password. While Ivanti has made updates available to address this problem, access to this information has curiously been limited. NOTE: It was now confirmed that the Norwegian government was targeted using
Ivanti MobileIron CVE-2023-35078 An Urgent Call for Update! Read More »
With Microsoft 365 Copilot getting closer to release, I decided I wanted to write a bit more in-depth about how this feature works and how it is set up for each tenant. There are two main components here that will play an important part in Copilot, one is the Azure OpenAI instance the second is
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I have been working on long time in the SASE space, and wrote a blog post about this back in 2021 about the differences between the different vendors in this landscape (which you can read here –> SASE – The next generation of services we need to protect the mobile workspace? – msandbu.org) and today
What is Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access? Read More »
Microsoft now released Azure DevBox as a new service aimed at developers, and I know many might be thinking.. well how does this differ from Windows 365 or even Azure Virtual Desktop? I wrote about DevBox waaay back when it was still in preview (Getting started with Microsoft DevBox – msandbu.org) while it is a
Difference between DevBox, Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop Read More »
Nvidia GPUs have made significant advancements, not only in gaming performance but also in various applications, particularly artificial intelligence, and machine learning with their GPUs. The GPU performance of NVIDIA can be attributed to two primary factors: CUDA and Tensor cores, which are found in nearly all modern GPUs. But what exactly is the role
NVIDIA L40 and L4 for vGPU workloads in VDI enviroments Read More »
End-user computing – the state of the union 2023 About a month ago I hosted the keynote at the Citrix User Group Norway conference and talked about what has happened within EUC the last year, and in which direction is it headed. Therefore, I also wanted to write a short blog post as sort of
EUC State of the union 2023 Read More »
Deploy Azure OpenAI using Terraform with Private Endpoint
Deploy Azure OpenAI using Terraform with Private Endpoint Read More »
