Sovereign Cloud at Microsoft Ignite 2026: Sessions, Booths and Where to Find Me (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:37:04 UTC

Microsoft Ignite 2026 is only a few days away


Microsoft Entra @ Ignite (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 14 Nov 2026 10:25:57 UTC

Every Microsoft Entra session at Microsoft Ignite 2026 (Nov 17–20): breakouts streamed online, in-person labs and talks, and what’s recorded on demand.


Which Passkey Should Your Users Get? The FIDO Alliance CTO on Passkeys and Post-Quantum Cryptography (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:03:23 UTC

Listen now (45 mins) | Synced, device-bound or a hardware security key? Nishant Kaushik, CTO of the FIDO Alliance, on choosing the right passkey and why passkeys are your post-quantum head start.


Azure Weekly Update - 13th November 2026 (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 10:45:26 UTC

Quick update from Brazil!!! πŸ”Ž Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Join me at the Microsoft Digital Sovereignty Day in Lausanne 2026 (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 09:41:16 UTC

After two very successful editions in Bern and Zurich, the Microsoft Digital Sovereignty Day is coming to Lausanne on Thursday, 26 November 2026


Sovereign AI, From Azure to the Edge: My NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 Session Is Now Available (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:38:59 UTC

β€œYour data, your models, your decisions.” That’s how Microsoft sums up sovereign AI, and it was the thread running through my session at NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026


Adopting AI inside an organization that has to pass a compliance audit (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 UTC

Adopting AI under SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR and the EU AI Act: the seven things every framework asks about an AI system, how to engineer for them, and what each team in the organization needs.


Check out the new Unified Roles preview for Entra ID (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 07:54:00 UTC

Microsoft Entra Unified Roles promises cross-service access and constrained delegation, while portal code reveals PIM integration and preview access checks. The post Check out the new Unified Roles preview for Entra ID appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


An Interesting Find: Agent Session Risk in Microsoft Entra Conditional Access (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:23:17 UTC

A new hidden condition in Microsoft Entra Conditional Access called Agent Session Risk brings session-level risk evaluation to AI agent security


GSAClientDiagnosticsToolkit is here: a PowerShell module to find out why Global Secure Access isn't working on your device (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:30:00 UTC+01:00


Build a Chat App with the Microsoft Foundry SDK: From Playground to Python for AI-901 (Ciraltos)

Published: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:53:50 UTC

A model in the Foundry playground is great for testing, but nobody else can use it


Unified Roles Experience in the Microsoft Entra Admin Center (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:38:05 UTC

Microsoft is preparing to introduce 'Unified roles (preview)' in the Microsoft Entra admin center, enabling precise access across services through a single role assignment and controlled delegation


Running GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Codex in VS Code dev containers (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:29:11 UTC

Configure Copilot, Claude Code and Codex in VS Code dev containers, with project tools, persistent settings and separate environments for multiple repositories.


AI security engineering: the same failures, but new ways to attack (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 UTC

Reflections on the last year of AI security incidents: new attack techniques, the same failures they keep exploiting, and why AI security engineering is now a core discipline.


Automate Guest Cleanup with Entra Guest Lifecycle Policies (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:32:17 UTC

Guest Lifecycle Policies in Microsoft Entra ID help automate the governance of external guest accounts by checking them against configured lifecycle rules and automatically disabling or deleting accounts that no longer meet the requirements. The post Automate Guest Cleanup with Entra Guest Lifecycle PoliciesΒ  Β  appeared first on AdminDroid Blog.


Microsoft will enable Claude in Copilot by default for EU tenants (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 06:53:04 UTC

Claude models become enabled by default for eligible EU and EFTA Copilot tenants on 9 December 2026; review access, credit spending and user experience. The post Microsoft will enable Claude in Copilot by default for EU tenants appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


Quick overview of Conditional Access Policy Plans (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:57:48 UTC

Stop repeating common attributes of your policies and instead use policy plans! β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:08 - Regular Conditional Access policy 01:01 - Policy Plans 04:51 - Rules 10:08 - Migration 11:13 - Summary 11:59 - Close β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ Want to learn more? πŸš€ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ πŸ“– Recommended Learning Path for Azure πŸ”— https://learn.onboardtoazure.com πŸ₯‡ Certification Content Repository πŸ”— https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials πŸ“… Weekly Azure Update πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks ☁ Azure Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY βš™ DevOps Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq πŸ’» PowerShell Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8 πŸŽ“ Certification Cram Videos πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA 🧠 Mentoring Content πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ πŸ”— https://savilltech.com/faq πŸ‘• Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store πŸ”— https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-spring.com/ πŸ‘‚ Enable the subtitles and from there you can translate to your native language via the auto-translate feature in settings! https://youtu.be/v5b53-PgEmI for a demo of using this feature. SUBSCRIBE βœ… https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIn7ox7j7bH_OFj7tYouOQ?sub_confirmation=1 #entra #security #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #onboardtoazure


Agentic AI engineering: Read-only MCP servers by default, and never run as my own identity (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 UTC

How I fence the tools my coding agents reach for: the Microsoft Learn MCP Server for current documentation, the Azure MCP Server behind a read-only principal scoped to the work, a browser through Playwright MCP, no cloud CLI from the terminal, and the servers I keep out of the session.


Entra πŸ†” News #174 β†’ This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:36:44 UTC

Admin.News launches, SMS for SSPR retires and Token Protection gets called out


Free AI Agents, the E7 Bill and AD vs Entra: The Workplace Ninjas US Special (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 07 Nov 2026 20:44:02 UTC

Four Workplace Ninjas US speakers on free local AI agents, the licence it takes to secure them, and the AD vs Entra cage match.


Building the next generation of multimodal AI experiences with fal in Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:08:44 UTC

Microsoft and fal partner to expand video generation in Microsoft Foundry, helping developers bring creative ideas into enterprise applications. The post Building the next generation of multimodal AI experiences with fal in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


Azure Weekly Update - 6th November 2026 (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:22:17 UTC

Broad range of updates this week. πŸ”Ž Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Surface Pro 12-inch: A Hidden Gem for People on the Road (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:16:47 UTC

I travel a lot for customer meetings, workshops and conferences, and I speak at events


Microsoft adds hard deletion protection for Entra ID (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:51:29 UTC

Entra hard deletion protection blocks permanent deletion for seven days


Agentic AI engineering: Multi-agent orchestration across lanes without conflict (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 UTC

How multiple coding agents and their sub-agents share one working tree without conflicts: lanes isolated by files, claiming lanes, getting a set of work items, and messaging between agents to sync on work.


Stop treating agents as one-off projects and start running them as a continuous discipline (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:00:00 UTC

AI must be selected, architected, and managed as a continuous business discipline, not a series of isolated projects. The post Stop treating agents as one-off projects and start running them as a continuous discipline appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


Designing Azure silicon on Azure silicon: EDA workloads on Cobalt 200 (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:00:00 UTC

Discover how Microsoft is accelerating electronic design automation (EDA) workloads with Azure Cobalt 200 VMs


Some new AI tools in my workbench (msandbu.org)

Published: Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:58:55 UTC

On a daily basis I conjure (aka prompt my way to creating new stuff) between 3 – 5 new tools for my toolbox using AI


Entra MemberOf replacement heads behind Governance paywall (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:17:57 UTC

Microsoft plans to put the Entra MemberOf replacement in Entra ID Governance, adding a licensing hurdle for basic group management; review your options. The post Entra MemberOf replacement heads behind Governance paywall appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


GitHub Backup Tool - update 1.4.0.0 is out (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:21:22 UTC+01:00


Agentic AI engineering: Why instructions aren't enough for coding agents (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 UTC

In this post I explain how agents instructions vs


MXC - Containing agents on your local machine (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:54:24 UTC

In this video we look at Microsoft eXecution Containers, MXC, as a way of containing agents and agent processes on your local machine with granular policy containing what they can do. β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:12 - OS elements 04:53 - Containment 12:34 - What is MXC 17:14 - Demo 23:46 - Learn modes 25:01 - Flagging agentic processes 26:26 - Summary 27:25 - Close β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ K E Y L I N K S πŸ”— β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ β–Ί Whiteboard: πŸ”— https://github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/raw/master/Whiteboards/MXC.png β–Ί MXC repo: πŸ”— https://github.com/microsoft/mxc β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ Want to learn more? πŸš€ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ πŸ“– Recommended Learning Path for Azure πŸ”— https://learn.onboardtoazure.com πŸ₯‡ Certification Content Repository πŸ”— https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials πŸ“… Weekly Azure Update πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks ☁ Azure Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY βš™ DevOps Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq πŸ’» PowerShell Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8 πŸŽ“ Certification Cram Videos πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA 🧠 Mentoring Content πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ πŸ”— https://savilltech.com/faq πŸ‘• Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store πŸ”— https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-spring.com/ πŸ‘‚ Enable the subtitles and from there you can translate to your native language via the auto-translate feature in settings! https://youtu.be/v5b53-PgEmI for a demo of using this feature. SUBSCRIBE βœ… https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIn7ox7j7bH_OFj7tYouOQ?sub_confirmation=1 #ai #agents #mxc #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #onboardtoazure


MXC quick overview #microsoft #ai (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:54:03 UTC

Overview of Microsoft Execution Containers to contain AI agents and code they create.


Predicting and detecting failures: How Azure strengthens reliability for mission-critical workloads (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:00:00 UTC

Azure Failure Prediction and Detection (AFPD) helps reduce interruptions by predicting hardware failures, moving eligible workloads, and notifying customers when action is needed


Cleanup Inactive Agent IDs with Lifecycle Workflows in Microsoft Entra (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:40:12 UTC

Inactive AI agents can retain access to your Microsoft Entra environment even after they are no longer needed, increasing the risk of unused identities being misused


Agentic AI engineering: What the humans do, what the agents do, and where the hard lines are (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 UTC

The split between what my coding agents do and what stays with me, the four ways work comes back to me, and the acts an agent never performs on its own.


Microsoft Foundry for Beginners: Deploy Your First Model and Write Prompts That Work (Ciraltos)

Published: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 21:08:06 UTC

Every AI chat app you’ve used, from a support bot to a coding assistant, comes down to three things: a deployed model, a set of instructions, and a conversation that gets sent back to the model every time you hit Enter


GitHub Copilot Fusion: choosing effort instead of models (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:56:34 UTC

My early impressions of GitHub Copilot Fusion, how its model routing works, and what GitHub's benchmarks show about quality and cost.


Join me at Microsoft Ignite 2026: Sovereign Cloud and AI (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:01:19 UTC

In almost every conversation I have with customers and partners across Europe, the same question comes up: How can we use cloud and AI while staying in control of our data, our operations and our compliance? Banks, public sector organizations and manufacturers all face growing requirements around data residency, regulation and digital resilience


Microsoft Entra ID is Retiring SMS & Voice Authentication for SSPR (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:00:26 UTC

Entra ID is retiring Microsoft-provided SMS and voice authentication for self-service password reset, with a 50-day transition period for organizations


Conditional Access Policy Plans - A First Look: Dub or Flop? (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:00:07 UTC

Over the years, Conditional Access has been constantly expanding, though most changes have come in the form of new user actions, conditions, controls, etc


Agentic AI engineering: I steer, the agents orchestrate (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 UTC

What agentic AI engineering means in practice: one engineer who steers, several coding agents that carry the work, and a board that shows who is doing what and what is waiting on me.


The Platform Behind the Next AI Breakthrough (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:52:22 UTC

The next frontier of AI is coming into focus as agents take on longer, more strategic work. The post The Platform Behind the Next AI Breakthrough appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


VWAN simulator: a digital twin for Virtual WAN (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:53:29 UTC

Sometimes it is difficult analyzing the routing behavior of your Azure environment: on one side you have Virtual WAN routing rules, which are defined by settings such as routing intent and hub routing preferences, and on the other you have connectivity technologies such as ExpressRoute, SD-WAN and VPN tunnels with static routing or BGP


Microsoft AI Update October 2026 (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:46:02 UTC

Major Microsoft AI updates in the month of October 2026. πŸ”Ž Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Entra πŸ†” News #173 β†’ This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:16:53 UTC

πŸ‘‹ Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.


Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026: Behind the Challenges (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:25:00 UTC

We’re signing off on AdminDroid’sΒ Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026 series! Β  It’s been a month of taking on new challenges that put our security habits to the test.Β  If you’re new here, here’s a quick catch-up.Β Every October, we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a dedicated security series.Β Over the past four years,Β we’ve… The post Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026: Behind the Challenges appeared first on AdminDroid Blog.


Entra Multi-Tenant App Mistakes Every SaaS Builder and Admin Should Know, with Kelvin Tegelaar (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:23:06 UTC

Must watch before you build your next multi-tenant app, or consent to one in your tenant.


Azure Weekly Update - 30th October 2026 - Halloween Special (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:27:01 UTC

A spooky selection of updates for this halloween special! πŸ”Ž Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Microsoft disables public contributions to Entra docs (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:41:27 UTC

Microsoft Entra documentation now has public contributions disabled in its publishing configuration


Azure Cloud HSM Hardware Audit Logging: Verifiable audit trails for security and compliance (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:00:00 UTC

Security, compliance, and operations teams can use this hardware-originated evidence for monitoring, compliance reporting, and forensic investigations. The post Azure Cloud HSM Hardware Audit Logging: Verifiable audit trails for security and compliance appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


How to Redirect SharePoint Site Creation Requests to an Approved Page (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:04:24 UTC

SharePoint introduces a new site creation experience that allows admins to redirect users to a custom URL when they try to create a new site


Microsoft offers free clean-up for inactive Agent IDs (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:51:54 UTC

Enable Microsoft's free Entra Agent ID inactivity policy without premium licences


Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:40:56 UTC

Today, we’re introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service in public preview. The post Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


Accelerating Defense with Microsoft Security Solutions (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:40:32 UTC

AI is accelerating both sides of cybersecurity and had a lot of questions around the Microsoft solutions so wanted to try and briefly cover where they sit in this video! β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ 00:00 - Introduction 01:50 - MDASH 04:45 - Perception 08:34 - Defender ISOC 11:05 - Foundation 14:03 - Secure your AI 16:41 - DART 17:44 - Summary 18:44 - Close β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ Want to learn more? πŸš€ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ πŸ“– Recommended Learning Path for Azure πŸ”— https://learn.onboardtoazure.com πŸ₯‡ Certification Content Repository πŸ”— https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials πŸ“… Weekly Azure Update πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks ☁ Azure Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY βš™ DevOps Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq πŸ’» PowerShell Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8 πŸŽ“ Certification Cram Videos πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA 🧠 Mentoring Content πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ πŸ”— https://savilltech.com/faq πŸ‘• Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store πŸ”— https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-spring.com/ πŸ‘‚ Enable the subtitles and from there you can translate to your native language via the auto-translate feature in settings! https://youtu.be/v5b53-PgEmI for a demo of using this feature. SUBSCRIBE βœ… https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIn7ox7j7bH_OFj7tYouOQ?sub_confirmation=1 #ai #security #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #onboardtoazure


How toΒ Block Sensitive Information Types in Microsoft 365 Copilot Prompts (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:06:27 UTC

Sensitive information entered in Copilot prompts, such as credit card numbers, bank account details, etc., can pose security risks


How AI Sees and Hears for AI-901: Hear, Speak, See, and Create (Ciraltos)

Published: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:25:28 UTC

A person with low vision points their phone at a letter, and the phone reads it out loud


Hub and spoke limits are (almost) gone (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:28:51 UTC

Large organizations usually adopt the β€œsubscription democratization” principle to organize their cloud resources, since that allows for a cleaner billing structure and an easier way to manage Azure Policy assignments and Role-Based Access Control


Conditional Access Policy Plans in Microsoft Entra ID (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:02:21 UTC

Microsoft introduces Conditional Access policy plans in public preview to help admins configure shared targeting once and manage different security requirements more efficiently


Scale reservoir uncertainty analysis with agile reservoir modeling (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:00:00 UTC

As subsurface data grows in scale and complexity, teams need a faster, more connected way to transform uncertainty into actionable decisions. The post Scale reservoir uncertainty analysis with agile reservoir modeling appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


Why do AI Agents Fail (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:32:51 UTC

Thought I would try something a little different! Why do AI agents really fail? Is it all the models fault? β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:37 - The model and what surrounds it 06:16 - Fuzzy goal 10:58 - Bad context 15:57 - Tool misfires 19:02 - Bad reasoning 22:53 - Lost state 25:47 - Hijack and over privileged 30:50 - Flying blind 35:07 - Improvement loop 39:46 - Two caveats 41:14 - Summary 42:19 - Close β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ K E Y L I N K S πŸ”— β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ β–Ί Whiteboard: πŸ”— https://github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/raw/master/Whiteboards/WhyAIAgentsFail.png β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ Want to learn more? πŸš€ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ πŸ“– Recommended Learning Path for Azure πŸ”— https://learn.onboardtoazure.com πŸ₯‡ Certification Content Repository πŸ”— https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials πŸ“… Weekly Azure Update πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks ☁ Azure Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY βš™ DevOps Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq πŸ’» PowerShell Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8 πŸŽ“ Certification Cram Videos πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA 🧠 Mentoring Content πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ πŸ”— https://savilltech.com/faq πŸ‘• Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store πŸ”— https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-spring.com/ πŸ‘‚ Enable the subtitles and from there you can translate to your native language via the auto-translate feature in settings! https://youtu.be/v5b53-PgEmI for a demo of using this feature. SUBSCRIBE βœ… https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIn7ox7j7bH_OFj7tYouOQ?sub_confirmation=1 #ai #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #onboardtoazure


Entra πŸ†” News #172 β†’ This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:49:18 UTC

πŸ‘‹ Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.


My move from WordPress to Git and Markdown (Hugo, Blowfish and Cloudflare) (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:50:00 UTC+02:00


Disclaimer (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:01:24 UTC+02:00


Azure Weekly Update - 24th October 2026 (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:28:59 UTC

Really nice selection of updates across Azure and AI this week! πŸ”Ž Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Conditional Access Gaps and the App Back Door, with Brandon Colley (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:19:18 UTC

Listen now (39 mins) | Most Conditional Access gaps aren’t exotic.


Privacy Policy (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:48:10 UTC+02:00


Entra ID Protection now flags suspicious credential additions (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:21:31 UTC

Entra ID Protection can now flag suspicious authentication method additions


How AI Reads Text for AI-901: Four Questions That Find What Matters (Ciraltos)

Published: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:04:34 UTC

Picture a product launch


Hero Link in SharePoint and OneDrive (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:14:02 UTC

Microsoft has introduced a new link-sharing experience for each file and folder in SharePoint and OneDrive with hero link


Public Preview: Disable VNet Peering Route (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:07:22 UTC

In this post, I want to explain how a new preview feature in Azure networking, called Disable VNet Peering Route, will simplify Azure networking and improve site-to-site security in a hub-and-spoke network


Advancing digital sovereignty with greater control and choice (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:34:47 UTC

Across conversations with leaders in government, critical infrastructure and regulated industries, one priority consistently rises to the top: putting technology to work on the most important systems while maintaining the control those systems require. The post Advancing digital sovereignty with greater control and choice appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


Designing for sovereign AI: A shared foundation from edge to cloud (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:00:00 UTC

A flexible sovereign architecture allows organizations to place each workload in the right environment, apply the controls it requires, and maintain consistency. The post Designing for sovereign AI: A shared foundation from edge to cloud appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


Manage skills and plugins across Claude Code, Codex and GitHub Copilot with APM (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:56:10 UTC

I have been building and using agent skills across Claude Code, Codex and GitHub Copilot, alongside plugins such as Ponytail and Superpowers


Tech in Five - What are Agent Control Planes? (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:56:53 UTC

A look at why we need Agent Control Planes. πŸ”Ž Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Entra πŸ†” News #171 β†’ This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:50:15 UTC

The ConnectWise breach explained: how one app credential opened 173+ Microsoft 365 tenants, plus agent blueprints and app cleanup


What are Conditional Access Plans? (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:23:35 UTC

Conditional Access Plans group rules under shared conditions and start Off


Stop the Bleeding: Cleaning Up Apps, Secrets and Consent in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:01:20 UTC

Listen now | Most tenants have the same problem: hundreds of app registrations and service principals, client secrets that were set to expire in a hundred years, permission grants nobody remembers approving, and test tenants that were never cleaned up.


Getting started with Azure SRE agent and some success stories (msandbu.org)

Published: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:49:06 UTC

This is a blog post where I try to wrap up the content of my presentation this week at NIC (Nordic Infrastructure Conference) where I got to talk about Azure SRE Agent


Azure Weekly Update - 16th October 2026 (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:52:32 UTC

Quick update this week! πŸ”Ž Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Send GitHub Copilot CLI telemetry to Azure Application Insights (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:52:23 UTC

Send GitHub Copilot CLI telemetry to Azure Application Insights using an authenticated OpenTelemetry Collector on Azure Container Apps, then query it with KQL.


Manage individual Security Defaults protections in Microsoft Entra (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:52:47 UTC

Microsoft Entra Security Defaults adds individual protection controls in private preview, with broader MFA coverage and support alongside Conditional Access. The post Manage individual Security Defaults protections in Microsoft Entra appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


Azure Arc: Windows Server 2012 ESUs Have Ended (What to Do Next) (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:41:15 UTC

Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 ended on October 13, 2026


Picking the Right AI Model for AI-901: Four Questions That Save Time and Money (Ciraltos)

Published: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:38:36 UTC

If you’re new to AI, it’s easy to assume the biggest model in the catalog is the best choice for a chatbot or app


Tech in Five - What is Computer Use? (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:46:28 UTC

An overview of what Computer Use is and why it is needed! πŸ”Ž Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Microsoft Entra expands who can create agent blueprints (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:34:51 UTC

Microsoft Entra will let default users create agent blueprints from November 2026


What Supermarkets Cybersecurity Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:37:01 UTC


Looking at the new Copilot "Super App" (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:57:41 UTC

Spent some time using and reading about the Copilot Super App and wanted to share capabilities but also what it means for organizations. β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:33 - Pace of AI change and possibilities 02:34 - Home 03:40 - Enterprise knowledge 05:59 - Chat 10:24 - Plugins 12:48 - Notebooks 14:00 - User Seat License billing 16:15 - Cowork 18:04 - User Based Billing consumption 19:31 - FinOps 22:08 - Chat or Cowork 23:22 - Intent routing 24:45 - Code 28:19 - Autopilot 29:56 - Summary 32:10 - Close β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ K E Y L I N K S πŸ”— β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ β–Ί Whiteboard: πŸ”— https://github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/raw/master/Whiteboards/CopilotSuperApp.png β–Ί Key blogs referenced: πŸ”— https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/09/25/introducing-the-new-copilot-with-home-code-and-autopilot/ πŸ”— https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-copilot-blog/introducing-the-plugin-registry---one-place-to-discover-and-govern-plugins-for-m/4559682 πŸ”— https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/ai-finops-blog/new-finops-for-ai-capabilities-control-spend-measure-value-and-optimize-for-impa/4559660 πŸ”— https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-copilot-blog/evolution-of-the-copilot-pricing-model/4559416 πŸ”— https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-copilot-blog/measuring-the-value-of-cowork-from-ai-interactions-to-completed-work/4554464 πŸ”— https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/blog/copilot-studio/build-where-you-want-run-with-confidence-now-microsoft-hosts-and-manages-the-code-created-by-copilot/ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ Want to learn more? πŸš€ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ πŸ“– Recommended Learning Path for Azure πŸ”— https://learn.onboardtoazure.com πŸ₯‡ Certification Content Repository πŸ”— https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials πŸ“… Weekly Azure Update πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks ☁ Azure Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY βš™ DevOps Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq πŸ’» PowerShell Master Class πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8 πŸŽ“ Certification Cram Videos πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA 🧠 Mentoring Content πŸ”— https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ πŸ”— https://savilltech.com/faq πŸ‘• Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store πŸ”— https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-spring.com/ πŸ‘‚ Enable the subtitles and from there you can translate to your native language via the auto-translate feature in settings! https://youtu.be/v5b53-PgEmI for a demo of using this feature. SUBSCRIBE βœ… https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIn7ox7j7bH_OFj7tYouOQ?sub_confirmation=1 #ai #copilot #microsoft #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #onboardtoazure


The Azure Daily: Launching My Azure News Aggregator (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:55:09 UTC

I am delighted to launch β€œThe Azure Dailyβ€œ, the new Azure news aggregator and newsletter site, gathering together Azure announcements and the best Azure articles from around the Internet in one easy-to-consume source


Entra πŸ†” News #170 β†’ This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:49:24 UTC

Learn about Global Secure Access and Universal CAE, passkeys for B2B users, and Maester 2.3.


The AI Gateway, Policy by Policy - Deep Dive (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:00:00 UTC

A field guide to running Azure API Management in front of Azure OpenAI: identity, budgets, chargeback, failover, caching, safety and governance, with the XML, the scripts and the queries.This is the long one


Speaking at NVIDIA GTC Berlin: Microsoft Sovereign Cloud and Sovereign AI (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:43:06 UTC

I’m excited to be speaking at NVIDIA GTC in Berlin, where I’ll be part of two sessions focused on Microsoft Sovereign Cloud and Sovereign AI


Azure Weekly Update - 9th October 2026 (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:47:00 UTC

Nice selection of updates this week! πŸ”Ž Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Stolen Tokens, Agents and Universal CAE: What Global Secure Access Adds to Entra ID (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:22:42 UTC

Listen now | Entra.Chat - https://entra.chat


Responsible AI in Azure: The 6 Principles Every AI Solution Needs (Ciraltos)

Published: Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:12:02 UTC

If an AI chatbot makes a promise your company can’t keep, who’s responsible? In 2024, a Canadian tribunal answered that question when Air Canada argued its chatbot was responsible for its own words


How to Find Azure Log Analytics Workspace Keys (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:31:04 UTC

Retrieve Azure Log Analytics workspace keys with Azure CLI


Citadel: What Changes When Ten Teams Share One AI Platform (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:00:00 UTC

Microsoft's Citadel architecture is not a product


Entra πŸ†” News #169 β†’ This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:24:19 UTC

πŸ‘‹ Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.


Azure capacity constraints in Europe: Microsoft puts dates and prices on the problem ()

Published: Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:15:52 UTC

In July I wrote about capacity constraints in Europe and why North Europe is feeling it most


An unexpected friendship: subnet peering and advertised gateway prefixes (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:10:24 UTC

You might have read my previous blogs about subnet peering, like this introduction to subnet peering when it was launched and the effect of subnet peering on ExpressRoute routing a bit later


Your AI Coding Agent Is Creating Secrets You Don’t Know About (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:50:25 UTC

Why coding agents keep creating client secrets, and how to stop them, with Microsoft Entra Agent ID PM Arturo Lucatero


Your AI Apps Run in Azure. Do They Run on a Platform? (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:00:00 UTC

What an AI landing zone and an AI gateway change, and why the difference shows up on the first bad day.Here is an estate I keep meeting, with the names changed.A public website assistant


AI-901 Explained: What’s New in Microsoft’s Azure AI Fundamentals Exam (Ciraltos)

Published: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:55:45 UTC

If you have been putting off studying for Microsoft’s Azure AI Fundamentals certification because you were not sure where to start, now is a good time to jump in


Making AI reviews useful in pull requests (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:13:06 UTC

AI code review becomes noisy quickly on busy pull requests


Global Secure Access - Multiple Traffic Forwarding profiles for Private Access is finally here! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:19:19 UTC+02:00


Your LLMs Need a Front Door: Why Every Enterprise AI Platform Needs an AI Gateway (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:34:28 UTC

Every enterprise AI platform hits the same wall.​ One team gets one Azure OpenAI deployment


Entra πŸ†” News #168 β†’ This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:47:06 UTC

πŸ‘‹ Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.


Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud and Azure Local: Much More Than a Virtualization Platform (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:49:12 UTC

Most organizations first encounter Azure Local during a virtualization review


Entra πŸ†” News #167 β†’ This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:50:15 UTC

Learn about passkey support for B2B users and more


Active Directory Security Testing in Maester 2.2 (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:02:08 UTC

Listen now | 269 opt-in checks for on-prem Active Directory, with Maester maintainers Mike Soule and Sam Erde


Beyond Virtualization: Why Microsoft and Azure Local Stands Out as a leader in Two Gartner Magic Quadrants (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:15:02 UTC

Organizations are rethinking their infrastructure strategies


Microsoft Entra Connect Sync - Passwordless Authentication is now GA, plus the new Entra Connect Migration Tool is here! (v2.6.91.0) (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:28:13 UTC+02:00


How to update a pull request comment from GitHub Actions instead of creating duplicates (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:07:02 UTC

Update one pull request comment from GitHub Actions instead of creating duplicates after every push, using a stable marker, ownership checks and a simple upsert pattern.


Sovereign Application Portability with Adaptive Apps and Radius (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:16:35 UTC

Most organizations have an exit strategy


Doomsday preppers get ready! AGI is here! (msandbu.org)

Published: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:12:27 UTC

This has been an interesting week to say the least, and now at the end of this week I got thinking about AGI and what is actually the threat of AI in regards to Cybersecurity and even humanity as a whole? Well firstly let me give a current overview on what is going on before […] The post Doomsday preppers get ready! AGI is here! appeared first on msandbu.org.


Entra πŸ†” News #166 β†’ This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:28:55 UTC

Learn about


Are Your Microsoft Entra Extensions Actually Being Used? (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:09 UTC

Today I'll take a deeper dive into what Entra Extensions Manager can help with and be used for


The New Generation of Car Reports: How CarTrace Built and Secured Its Platform on Azure (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:00:00 UTC

​What does it take for a small startup to run a secure, AI-powered platform on Azure? CarTrace.nl, a new generation of car report combining a free kentekencheck, European stolen-car searches and an AI advisor, is a great real-world example: containerized on Azure App Service, protected by a WAF at the edge, and running its AI agent Leo through an AI-hub approach with multiple models, capability-gated tools and strict handling of untrusted web content.A Startup Born From a Stolen CarCarTrace is [...]


The Hidden Laws of Cloud Transformation (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:44:56 UTC

Over the last few years I’ve been involved in many Azure migration and modernization assessments


Digital Sovereignty Guidance Is Now Part of the Cloud Adoption Framework (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:55:06 UTC

Digital sovereignty has become one of the most energizing conversations in our industry


Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid Is Now GA: 6 Reasons to Use It, and 2 Reasons to Reconsider (Ciraltos)

Published: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:26:57 UTC

Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid has officially reached general availability, giving organizations a new way to deliver virtual desktops and remote applications from their own data centers while still leveraging Azure services for connectivity and management


Azure Front Door Edge Actions (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:19:55 UTC

You might have noticed that a very interesting new feature has been published in the Azure Front Door documentation: Edge Actions


New feature in PIM - fire custom extensions on role activation (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 UTC

I recently wrote about the things I would fix in Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management if Microsoft made me Product Manager for a day


Microsoft Security Architect: Active Directory Is 10x Harder to Defend Than Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:18:11 UTC

Why a Microsoft Architect Says It's Time to Get Off Active Directory


Entra πŸ†” News #165 β†’ This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:24:56 UTC

πŸ‘‹ Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.


Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid Join without VPN: A Deep Dive into the New Azure Arc-Based Architecture (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:05:28 UTC

Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid Join has traditionally required complex networking, VPNs, and supporting infrastructure


APIM Policy Patterns for AI Governance: Part 2 – Content Safety & Model Control (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 UTC

Part 1 covered the consumption side of an AI gateway: rate limits, token quotas, usage attribution and the telemetry needed to understand them


Missing Service Principals in Entra ID: Why Conditional Access, App Protection and Global Secure Access will fail + more fun (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:58:52 UTC+02:00


Introducing Entra Extensions Manager: A Better Way to Manage Custom Extensions (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:00:09 UTC

Ever felt like you needed some more options to store data in Entra, or the pain of having to figure out what, when and where data is stored? me too..


Global Secure Access - Now with Windows Update support! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:46:15 UTC+02:00


How to protect against DDoS attacks (Extended edition) (msandbu.org)

Published: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:33:29 UTC

So, Norway is under attack


Microsoft PIM is great - but it has some shortcomings that need fixing (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 UTC

Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management, or PIM, is a product I both really like and sometimes get really frustrated with


APIM Policy Patterns for AI Governance: Part 1 – Rate Limits, Token Quotas & Observability (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:20:27 UTC

How I would use Azure API Management to control AI request rates and token consumption, attribute usage, emit useful telemetry and handle backend throttling.


Azure Service Groups: The Missing Layer Between Governance and Operations (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:23:05 UTC

Azure governance has traditionally relied on Management Groups, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, and Tags


Time for a new lab environment - Part 2 (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:17:35 UTC+02:00


From Azure Policy to APIM: Implementing Azure AI Guardrails (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:13:08 UTC

Azure Policy and API Management solve different parts of AI governance in Azure


Are we locked in the Cloud? (msandbu.org)

Published: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:49:13 UTC

Not a day goes by without someone talking about cloud sovereignty and becoming less dependent on US tech giants (AWS, Azure, Google and so on).Many make valid points


Azure SRE Agent for Networking (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:14:32 UTC

You might have heard about the Azure SRE Agent (https://aka.ms/sreagent)


The square design with hub-and-spoke (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:56:14 UTC

This is a continuation from my previous post Azure Route Server route maps: more than a feature, where I discussed some of the patterns not supported by route maps in Azure Route Server (ARS), such as VNet-to-VNet VPN connections and BGP peers in another hub (although these ones might be addressed by the time route … Continue reading The square design with hub-and-spoke


Set up OpenwebUI on Docker with Foundry and Entra ID Authentication (Caddy) (msandbu.org)

Published: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:53:30 UTC

Last week I was asked to set up an GenAI Chat solution for an workshop and decided to use OpenWebUI GitHub – open-webui/open-webui: User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, …) Β· GitHub which is a pretty flexible solution in terms of using your own data, supporting different models and authentication methods (and its free!) […] The post Set up OpenwebUI on Docker with Foundry and Entra ID Authentication (Caddy) appeared first on msandbu.org.


Azure Route Server route maps: more than a feature (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:28:21 UTC

If you have been following the Azure Networking space lately, you will probably have noticed the global preview of a new feature: route maps for Azure Route Server


Entra ID Protection - User Risk with Unified Identity Signals from Defender is here! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:38:04 UTC+02:00


Many-regions networking with Azure Route Server (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:21:11 UTC

The AI era has brought many good things: from endless cat videos to applications vibe-coded during the lunch break, but there is also something else they have brought to the table: capacity issues in public clouds


How Big Is a Fish? Making Sense of GenAI’s Energy Use (msandbu.org)

Published: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:34:50 UTC

The UN recently released a research paper on the enviromental impact of AI (https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167658) which gives a lot of good insight into the energy cost of AI


LLM Locked in? (msandbu.org)

Published: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:53:04 UTC

While many are talking about sovereignty these days and how to become less dependent on the large tech companies and their language models such as Anthropic ( such as where Fable was blocked from the US government, since the government was scared of its capabilities) and now yesterday when it was announced that OpenAI had […] The post LLM Locked in? appeared first on msandbu.org.


Azure capacity constraints in Europe: why North Europe is feeling it most ()

Published: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:07:51 UTC

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Important LLM benchmarks to know about (msandbu.org)

Published: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:22:32 UTC

I still notice when I read posts from different people on Linkedin and social media (like Twitter/X) Β that they still post things like THIS IS THE BEST MODELCURRENTLY MUCH BETTER THEN X,Y,ZOH MY GOD X,Y,ZΒ  IS BLOWING AWAY THE COMPETITION!and the list goes on and on, however they fail to actually understand the bigger difference […] The post Important LLM benchmarks to know about appeared first on msandbu.org.


The 3 Azure Security Mistakes I See During Audits (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:17:56 UTC

I’ve performed many Azure audits over the years, both formally and informally while learning new environments


Stay in Control of your Data Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Azure (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:07:21 UTC

One of the questions I often ask customers during Azure security and governance workshops is: β€œWhat happens if Microsoft Support needs access to your data to troubleshoot a critical issue?” Most organizations assume Microsoft engineers can simply access their environment whenever needed


How the Microsoft Baseline Security Mode Left Ghost Policies in Entra ID (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:49:13 UTC+02:00


Optimal routing with ExpressRoute – Revisited (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:46:39 UTC

There are two articles in Microsoft documentation that contain the most important guidelines to configure routing over ExpressRoute: Optimize routing for Azure ExpressRoute Azure ExpressRoute: Designing for disaster recovery Both are good articles and describe correct design patterns, but they were written a long time ago and most readers struggle to map those concepts to … Continue reading Optimal routing with ExpressRoute – Revisited


EU Azure Regions Capacity – June 2026 (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:54:30 UTC

The purpose of this post is to share what I’ve learned (through prompting through AI) about capacity issues in Azure regions in the EU


Microsoft Entra Connect Sync - Passwordless Authentication - now supported! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:29:18 UTC+02:00


Windows Lies Make Application Gateway Certs Harder (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:53:25 UTC

You’ve got a valid certificate


Choosing the Right Extension Type in Microsoft Entra (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:00:11 UTC

I’ve been seeing a lot of discussions about the different extension types available across Microsoft Entra objects, and I have a few thoughts on the subject that I want to share with y’all


Private by Design: A Practical Guide to AI Networking on Azure (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:00:00 UTC

Most AI outages I see aren't model problems


Managed Identity Permission Manager v1.1.0.5 is here! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:30:31 UTC+02:00


A critical vulnerability was resolved in Veeam Backup & Replication v12.3.2.4854 (DirTeam.com)

Published: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:43:15 UTC

Yesterday, Veeam addressed a critical vulnerability in its Backup & Replication v12 product, that allows adversaries to execute arbitrary code on the Backup Server… but only when the host is domain-joined


Azure Arc: Why you need both WindowsOsUpdateExtension and WindowsPatchExtension (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:55:02 UTC

If you have noticed both WindowsOsUpdateExtension and WindowsPatchExtension installed on an Azure Arc-enabled server, you might wonder whether something isContinue Reading


Step-by-Step guide to Microsoft Entra Agent ID – Part 03 – Create Attribute-Driven Conditional Access Policy for Agent Identities (REBELADMIN)

Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:51:10 UTC

In my previous posts of this series, I explained the core components and authentication flows of Microsoft Entra Agent ID and steps to create Agent identity blueprints and Agent Identities


MANA is rolling out to existing Azure VM sizes: what it means for your NVAs ()

Published: Wed, 20 May 2026 11:42:41 UTC

If you’ve been running Network Virtual Appliances in Azure for a while, this is one you’ll want to pay attention to


Step-by-Step guide to Microsoft Entra Agent ID – Part 02 – Create Agent identity blueprints and Agent Identities (REBELADMIN)

Published: Mon, 18 May 2026 20:18:20 UTC

In my previous post, I explained the core components and authentication flows of Microsoft Entra Agent ID


Azure Arc-enabled SCVMM: Securing the Azure Connected Machine agent during onboarding with PowerShell (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Mon, 18 May 2026 07:30:00 UTC

In this blog post, I’ll cover one of the more overlooked aspects of deploying Azure Arc-enabled SCVMM, which is hardeningContinue Reading


Introducing the New PIMActivation Portal: Managed, Self-Hosted, and Mobile Ready (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 18 May 2026 05:00:10 UTC

Today I want to share something I’ve been working on for a while now - a Progressive Web App (PWA) version of my PowerShell-based tool, PIMActivation! Back in October 2025 I released the first version of my PowerShell module PIMActivation, which I also wrote a blog post about that you can read here


Azure Arc-enabled SCVMM: Why β€œResourceMoveValidationFailed” blocks subscription moves and how to migrate (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Tue, 12 May 2026 13:21:23 UTC

In this blog post, you will learn why the ResourceMoveValidationFailed error occurs when attempting to move an Azure Arc-enabled SCVMMContinue Reading


5 Most Common Azure Review Findings (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Mon, 11 May 2026 16:06:26 UTC

An Azure architecture review is something I’ve done many times


Getting With The Times: Time-Based Conditional Access (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 11 May 2026 06:27:20 UTC

Conditional Access is one of, if not the, strongest tools in our kit for securing access to our organizations


What's New in Entra in April 2026 (DirTeam.com)

Published: Thu, 07 May 2026 07:39:20 UTC

Entra, previously known as Azure Active Directory, is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance


Come learn with KNVI about the impact AI has on IT (DirTeam.com)

Published: Wed, 06 May 2026 11:17:05 UTC

On Wednesday May 20, 2026, I’m co-presenting at KNVI’s 'AI-IT Impact' eventΒ DutchΒ at Nest in Amstelveen Dutch


Step-by-Step guide to Microsoft Entra Agent ID – Part 01 – Authentication Flows (REBELADMIN)

Published: Mon, 04 May 2026 21:41:46 UTC

Many of you have probably seen Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol


From the field: The Case of Protected Users being shut out of RDP after removing the last Windows Server 2019 Domain Controller (DirTeam.com)

Published: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:36:39 UTC

Troubleshooting stories from the field are the best


Your RDP (Remote Desktop) files are now untrusted after the April 2026 Windows Patch - Sign them with PowerShell (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:34:55 UTC+02:00


Private global load balancing in Azure with anycast (no BGP) (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:40:07 UTC

This probably one of the least enticing blog post titles I have ever had


Azure Virtual Network TAP (vTAP) β€” Public Preview walkthrough (Adam Stuart)

Published: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:01:03 UTC

⚠️ Another experiment with AI + Copilot CLI β€” this time using the HyperFrames composition technique (https://hyperframes.heygen.com)


What does Anthropic Mythos ACTUALLY mean for Cybersecurity? (msandbu.org)

Published: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:49:27 UTC

These last weeks I have seen so many wierd blogposts and articles on Linkedin and other social media stating that Mythos is a GAMECHANGER and that we now have to rethink how we need to handle security, or that this is the first step to AGI and other similiar topics


AVD on Azure Local: Security Hardening the Azure Arc Agent (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:09:09 UTC

In this blog post, I tackle one of the often overlooked aspects of AVD on Azure Local, which is securityContinue Reading


HVTools - first Community response is insane! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:20:43 UTC+02:00


What's New in Entra in March 2026 (DirTeam.com)

Published: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:21:00 UTC

Entra, previously known as Azure Active Directory, is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance


Backup Versus Resiliency Versus Disaster Recovery (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:28:07 UTC

Most of us are no strangers to the backup versus disaster recovery conversation


Break-Glass Accounts Done Right: Securing Emergency Access in Microsoft Entra (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:00:16 UTC

Emergencies happen every day


Deprecating LogAnalytics.Client after 330,000+ downloads, and how to migrate (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

After years of production-grade and community use and over 330,000 NuGet downloads, LogAnalytics.Client is now deprecated


Join Jay Gundotra and me at the M365 Community Conference (DirTeam.com)

Published: Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:24:35 UTC

Jay Gundotra has invited me on stage of the Microsoft 365 Community Conference to present on Entra and Microsoft 365 Governance solutions


Azure DNS Security Policy β€” Protect Your DNS Resolution with Threat Intelligence (Adam Stuart)

Published: Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:32:07 UTC

Azure DNS Security Policy is a relatively new but important feature that many Azure customers are missing


Announcing the Azure Startup Credits Visualizer (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

A free, privacy-first tool that turns your Microsoft for Startups cost export CSV into an interactive visual report, entirely in your browser.


AI – Is The Squeeze Worth The Juice? (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:34:02 UTC

There have been a lot of AI-related headlines lately


Sean Deuby interviews us on Entra app sprawl for Episode 91 of the HIP Podcast (DirTeam.com)

Published: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:32:45 UTC

Raymond Comvalius and I featured in an interview with Sean Deuby, Principal Technologist Americas at Semperis, for the Hybrid Identity Protection Podcast on Entra app sprawl


There Is More To Azure Networking Than Connectivity & Security (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:05:05 UTC

This post will explain how a well-designed, secured, governed and managed network design plays a foundational role in digital transformation and cloud enablement


Microsoft Defender’s New Password Protection Experience (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:58:53 UTC+01:00


Introducing the Active Directory Domain Page in Microsoft Defender (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:22:58 UTC+01:00


When To Add Subnets To An Azure Virtual Network (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:57:46 UTC

In this post, I want to explain the real reasons to add subnets to an Azure virtual network


Acronym Bingo for MVP Summit 2026 (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:19:09 UTC

Acronym Bingo for MVP Summit 2026


The Curious Case of the "Release" Button bug in Defender for Office Quarantine (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:39:47 UTC+01:00


Microsoft Defender - Nation State Notifications (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:28:46 UTC+01:00


Introducing M365IdentityPosture: Community-Driven Identity Reporting for Microsoft 365 (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:00:20 UTC

Have you ever felt that the native reporting options in the Microsoft Cloud are lacking? Well, you’re not alone - let’s talk about it


Virtual WAN Is Not Required For SD-WAN (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:21:37 UTC

Did you know that you do not need to use Virtual WAN to implement an SD-WAN with Azure? In fact, contrary to the recommendations from Microsoft, Virtual WAN might be the worst way to add Azure networks to an SD-WAN


Hindsight is 20/20: The Azure Deployment Mistakes We All Made ()

Published: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:00:00 UTC

Spring is here once again and I’m delighted to be contributing a post as part of the Azure Spring Clean event organised by Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton


Entra Connect Sync 2.6.3.0 addresses an issue where auto-upgrade would halt synchronization (DirTeam.com)

Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:04:32 UTC

Microsoft Entra Connect Sync version v2.6.3.0 addresses an issue where auto-upgrade would halt synchronization


Deploying Azure Connected Cache for Enterprise & Education / Delivery Optimization (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:03:00 UTC

Microsoft Connected Cache delivers fast, local distribution of Microsoft content, but many deployments fail long before the cache goes live


Designing and Implementing a Tagging Strategy for Azure Update Manager (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:30:00 UTC

In my blog post contribution for this year’s Azure Spring Clean, we’ll explore how to design and implement a taggingContinue Reading


Introducing HVTools: Your new tool for Hyper-V/Clusters and Azure Local overview (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:42:25 UTC+01:00


Tracing Packets in Azure Networks (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:42:25 UTC

While I’m on the topic of troubleshooting, I thought that I would add some tips on how to trace packets in Microsoft Azure


It’s Not Always Azure (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:59:57 UTC

It’s easy to blame Azure when something goes wrong


Guide to creating the ultimate self-hosted build agent on Azure DevOps (Stories by Jack Roper on Medium)

Published: Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:39:25 UTC

…With included cloud-init build scripts!Continue reading on Medium Β»


Join us for the upcoming Dutch Microsoft Entra Community Meetup (DirTeam.com)

Published: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:09:35 UTC

The Dutch Microsoft Entra Community, run by fellow MVPs Pim Jacobs, Jan Bakker and Michel van Vliet and Microsoft senior product manager Stefan van der Wiele has been gaining significant traction since its inaugural meetup on February 1st, 2024


Enabling DNS over HTTPS (DoH) on Windows DNS Server – A Deep Dive into Secure DNS for the Enterprise (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:55:00 UTC

DNS over HTTPS Windows Server Windows DNS DoH configuration Secure DNS DoH enterprise DoH certificate requirements


Defender for Endpoint - New feature is out: Live response file library! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:48:00 UTC+01:00


Securing Microsoft Business Premium Part 06: Securing Email with Defender for Office 365 (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:00:32 UTC

Sharing is caring β€” While that is a mantra I follow myself, collaboration needs to be done securely


Interpretation of The Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:25:11 UTC

In this post, I will explain how I have interpreted the Cloud Adoption Framework for Microsoft Azure and how I apply it with my company, Cloud Mechanix


Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance: When Do You Actually Need It in a Hub‑and‑Spoke Architecture? (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:05:23 UTC

Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance (AVNR): Architecture, Use Cases, Hub-Spoke & Virtual WAN Design


Azure Advisor: How to view Potential savings in EUR instead of USD with an Excel export (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:11:13 UTC

In this blog post, you will learn how to view your Azure Advisor Potential savings in EUR instead of USDContinue Reading


Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode #WAC The Next Evolution in Hyper-V Management (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:15:37 UTC

If you’ve been watching the evolution of Windows Admin Center (WAC) Microsoft’s web based management platform for Windows Server you’ve probably noticed that it’s more than just a modern replacement for legacy MMC snap-ins


It’s Never Too Late For The Cloud Adoption Framework (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:32:52 UTC

I’m going to explain why the Cloud Adoption Framework can offer answers to Azure – even for organisations that have been in The Cloud for years


How to Configure Inbound SMTP DANE & DNSSEC in Exchange Online (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:00:20 UTC

We’re already sending emails securely, now it’s time to secure inbound email as well! Back in 2022, Microsoft enabled outbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for all Exchange Online customers, including MSA (hotmail, live, outlook), ensuring encrypted delivery when sending to domains that support it


Microsoft Artifact Signing Region Requirement Errors: Root Cause and Fix (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:06:59 UTC+01:00


Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance – a first look ()

Published: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:30:21 UTC

Microsoft recently dropped Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance (VNRA) into public preview with surprisingly little fanfare


What’s The Deal With Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance? (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:24:41 UTC

I’ve seen a lot of chatter about the new Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance that has just gone into preview


Optimal Deployment and Infrastructure Navigator for Azure Local deployments (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:31:25 UTC

Microsoft’s Azure Local team released a new experimental Azure Local Configuration Builder on GitHub


What's New in Entra in February 2026 (DirTeam.com)

Published: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:58:14 UTC

Entra, previously known as Azure Active Directory, is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance


Modern Email Security Explained: From Sender Authentication to Transport Security (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:00:43 UTC

Sending an email securely requires more moving parts than most people expect, you don’t notice when it works


Configure Microsoft Fabric Power BI Private Endpoints with Azure Private DNS (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:34:07 UTC

Below is a brain wave on how to setup a private endpoint for Microsoft Fabric, as default it is connecting public and not private to your data, it all is a simple step but there could be many bumps depending on your site, below is are the steps that I faced , and yes in … Continue reading "Configure Microsoft Fabric Power BI Private Endpoints with Azure PrivateΒ DNS"


Virtual WAN BGP peering - what routes should I receive? (Adam Stuart)

Published: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:16:55 UTC

Quick demonstration of 65520 inter-hub routes, and how to verify in CLI.


Visual Studio Enterprise Partner Benefits – a Heads-Up! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:49:31 UTC+01:00


Migrating a SQL Server Database to Azure SQL (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:25:22 UTC

SQL Server migrations to Azure are no longer isolated infrastructure projects


Securing Microsoft Fabric with Private Networking (Stories by Jack Roper on Medium)

Published: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:48:53 UTC

Ready to take your Fabric security to the next level?Continue reading on ITNEXT Β»


A new Community tool is comming to Hyper-V - stay turned! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:58:31 UTC+01:00


Reflecting on the year 2025: How It Started and What’s Next πŸš€ (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:21:54 UTC+01:00


KB: Veeam Backup Fails to Synology SMB Share - β€œAn unexpected network error occurred - Asynchronous request operation has failed” (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:00:13 UTC+01:00


SignToolGUI 2.1.0.0 Released πŸŽ‰ (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:12:38 UTC+01:00


New Intune/Autopatch Feature: CVE and KB reporting - Better visibility, smarter patching - General Availability (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:39:09 UTC+01:00


Global Secure Access - Guest Access support with the Windows Client (B2B Guest) (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:43:19 UTC+01:00


Major updates in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Intune (December 2025) (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:17:24 UTC+01:00


From Ops to C-Level – AI Adoption in Practice – Festive Tech Calendar 2025 (wedoAzure)

Published: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:55:00 UTC

Introduction It’s great to be back for another year of the Festive Tech Calendar


Secure private access to your internal apps without a VPN ()

Published: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:12:51 UTC

Welcome everyone to my contribution to this year’s Festive Tech Calendar


The Hidden Steps Microsoft Forgot to Document: Securing Azure App Service Authentication Behind Front Door with Private Link (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:00:26 UTC

Today I want to walk through how to configure Azure App Service Authentication when your App Service sits behind Azure Front Door and is accessed through a Private Link


Architecting for Resiliency on Azure Infrastructure (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:06:39 UTC

How to Build Cloud-Native Reliability for Mission-Critical Workloads Introduction Resiliency has become one of the most critical architectural principles in modern cloud environments


Global Secure Access - Intelligent Local Access for Private Access (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:58:31 UTC+01:00


The Hidden Microsoft Entra PIM URLs Microsoft Never Documented – Even When β€˜Restrict Access to Microsoft Entra Admin Center’ Is Enabled (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:40:58 UTC+01:00


Using Traffic Manager to Failover or Bypass Azure Front Door ()

Published: Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:04:09 UTC

Microsoft unfortunately suffered not one but two major service outages in October 2025 on their Azure Front Door service


Microsoft Sovereign Cloud & Azure Local: The Future of Trusted AI & Infrastructure (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:00:00 UTC

In today’s digital era, especially across Europe, trust, compliance, data residency, and operational transparency are now as critical as performance, scalability, and innovation


Mastering Microsoft Entra Authentication Contexts - Part 4: Monitoring and Reporting with KQL & M365IdentityPosture (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 03 Nov 2025 06:00:11 UTC

We’ve covered what Authentication Contexts are, why they matter, and how they help us strengthen access and data security in Microsoft 365


Running AI Foundry Local on Windows Server 2025 – A Fully Offline AI Model Deployment Guide (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:15:39 UTC

Introduction In today’s AI-driven world, many organizations and IT professionals are looking for local, offline, secure AI deployments rather than relying solely on the cloud


Azure Firewall Now Supports Ingestion-Time Transformation in Log Analytics: How to Reduce Costs and Improve Security (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:56:15 UTC

Microsoft has announced the general availability of ingestion-time transformation for Azure Firewall logs in Log Analytics


Mastering Microsoft Entra Authentication Contexts - Part 3: Advanced Data Protection (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:57:00 UTC

With identities and access strengthened in part 2 , it’s time to turn our focus to real-world data protection with Authentication Contexts


Migrating to Azure? Decide carefully when choosing your firewall ()

Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:35:19 UTC

So, you’ve decided to move to the cloud and you have migrated your workloads over to Azure but what decision did you make about the firewall? You’ve probably got a long standing preferred firewall vendor that you’ve been using for your NGFW on premises


Extending the Migrate2GSA PowerShell Module – Why I added JSON support (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:59:42 UTC+02:00


Using Windows LAPS with Azure Virtual Desktop on Entra ID–Joined Devices (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:13:00 UTC

By Robert Smit | Azure MVP | Cloud Architect Keywords: Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows LAPS, Entra ID joined devices, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Graph, cloud security, zero trust, AVD session hosts How Windows LAPS secures local admin passwords in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Introduction Managing local administrator passwords in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments has always … Continue reading "Using Windows LAPS with Azure Virtual Desktop on Entra ID–JoinedΒ Devices"


Azure Managed Applications, Deep dive (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:14:42 UTC

A practical, copy‑pasteable guide for packaging infrastructure + operations into a Managed Application (Marketplace & Service Catalog)


Entra ID - Soft-delete & Restore for Conditional Access + New PowerShell Module (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:58:27 UTC+02:00


The coolest toy from Japan for Network Engineers (Adam Stuart)

Published: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:23:35 UTC


Mastering Microsoft Entra Authentication Contexts – Part 2: Real-World Access & Action Controls (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:00:24 UTC

In Part 1 of this mini-series, we explored the what, why, and how of Microsoft Entra Authentication Contexts, laying the foundation for what they are and how they work


Enabling Virtual Network Flow Logs At Scale (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:44:50 UTC

In this post, I will explain how you can enable Virtual Network (VNet) Flow Logs at scale using a built-in Azure Policy


Azure Policy Explained (Stories by Jack Roper on Medium)

Published: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:51:33 UTC

Azure Policy OverviewContinue reading on ITNEXT Β»


Joepilot or Copilot? Networking edition | Azure Back to School 2025 (wedoAzure)

Published: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:00:00 UTC

Introduction Firstly, it’s great to be featured for Azure Back to School in 2025


Microsoft Cost Management Updates What’s New & How to Save More in Azure (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:40:49 UTC

Managing cloud costs has never been more important


Entra ID - When Ideas Become Features: Reflections on Entra ID App Policies (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:53:54 UTC+02:00


Azure Availability Sets vs Host Groups vs Availability Zones: What to Choose and When (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:28:00 UTC

Many cloud engineers get confused when trying to decide between Azure Availability Sets, Host Groups, and Availability Zones


SignTool GUI 2.0.0.0 β€” Major Update Out Now! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:38:28 UTC+02:00


What’s next for Visual Studio 2026 (v18)! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:42:29 UTC+02:00


Azure Networking Unplugged: Lessons from the Field ()

Published: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:00:00 UTC

Greetings! Welcome to my contribution to this year’s Azure Back to School event


Azure Compute Infrastructure: Step-by-Step Guide to Azure Host Groups (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:17:20 UTC

If you’re running enterprise workloads in Microsoft Azure, you’ve likely come across the need for dedicated hardware, VM placement control, and high availability


Learning PowerShell with GitHub Copilot: Building a Hub–Spoke Networking Test (HΓ₯vard LΓΈkensgard)

Published: Sat, 06 Sep 2025 18:41:41 UTC

I wanted a project that would ensure that I keep my PowerShell skills and continued to learn new stuff


Closing Microsoft Graph Gaps: My Feedback Portal Request Gains Top 3 in Just 4 Days (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:55:47 UTC+02:00


wedoAI 2025 (wedoAzure)

Published: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:27:23 UTC

Our AI focussed event is back for another year


Default outbound access retirement – one month to go! ()

Published: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:00:00 UTC

This post is just to serve as a timely reminder to ensure that you are ready for the upcoming behaviour changes in how Azure will treat default outbound network access


How to populate Azure Storage Accounts with demo data (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Continue reading on zimmergren.net β†’


Entra ID - Bulk User Download – Enhanced Experience (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:58:53 UTC+02:00


Quickly switching between Light and Dark mode on Windows! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Continue reading on zimmergren.net β†’


Summer Recap & Time to Reconnect (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:31:13 UTC+02:00


Entra ID – Managed Identity Permission Manager: A Community-Driven Recap (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:03:29 UTC+02:00


Mastering Microsoft Entra Authentication Contexts – Part 1: What They Are, Why They Matter, and How to Use Them (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:00:21 UTC

Over my last few posts, I’ve casually mentioned Authentication Context a few times, so I thought it was about time we gave the feature a proper spotlight


What is Microsoft Fabric? (Stories by Jack Roper on Medium)

Published: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:25:31 UTC

An Overview of everything you need to know about Microsoft FabricContinue reading on ITNEXT Β»


PIMActivation: The Ultimate Tool for Microsoft Entra PIM Bulk Role Activation (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 05:00:18 UTC

Getting annoyed or impatient when activating eligible roles in PIM β€” especially multiple roles at once? You’re not alone


Agentic AI Security – Part 2: Threat Modeling (REBELADMIN)

Published: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:07:40 UTC

In my previous article, I discussed common threats linked to Agentic AI systems


How I Accidentally Spent a stupid amount on a Test Firewall (And Built a Solution So It Never Happens Again) (HΓ₯vard LΓΈkensgard)

Published: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:57:08 UTC

Picture this: You’re sitting on a beach in Thailand, coconut in hand, completely disconnected from work


Simplifying Azure IPAM Hierarchies with Terraform: Two Approaches (HΓ₯vard LΓΈkensgard)

Published: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:07:06 UTC

Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) has recently gone GA with a powerful new feature:Β IP Address Management (IPAM)


My First Year as a Microsoft MVP (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 23:19:08 UTC+02:00


18th Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:55:38 UTC

I found out yesterday that I was awarded my 18th annual Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award by Microsoft, continuing with the Azure Networking expertise


Building A Hub & Spoke Using Azure Virtual Network Manager (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:03:59 UTC

In this post, I will show how to use Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) to enforce peering and routing policies in a zero-trust hub-and-spoke Azure network


Microsoft-Managed Conditional Access Policies: What You Need to Know (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:10:20 UTC

As organizations strive to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats, Microsoft has introduced Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policiesβ€”a powerful way to enforce security best practices with minimal administrative overhead


The Evolution of My Company, Cloud Mechanix (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:02:19 UTC

Exciting News: Cloud Mechanix is Evolving! I’m thrilled to announce the relaunch and transformation of Cloud Mechanix into a full-service Azure consulting company


πŸ› οΈ Releasing my legacy PowerShell AD Service Account Tool (Yes, it still works great) (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:46:49 UTC+02:00


Inside My Toolkit: Dev Tools, Productivity Apps, and More πŸ› οΈ (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:58:31 UTC+02:00


Tools and software I use (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:35:20 UTC+02:00


Introducing Azure DevOps Backup Tool 1.2.0.0: Update with new features and bug fixes! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:00:23 UTC+02:00


Getting Started with Azure Front Door and Private Link for Container Apps (HΓ₯vard LΓΈkensgard)

Published: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:26:17 UTC

Since the support for container apps as private link enabled origins for azure front door in GA


Securing your secrets using Terraform ephemeral resources (Stories by Jack Roper on Medium)

Published: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:19:14 UTC

How to stop secrets from ending up in your state file!Continue reading on ITNEXT Β»


Microsoft Entra Restricted Management Administrative Units: Delegating Control Without Sacrificing Security (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:00:15 UTC

Today, I’ll take a closer look at Microsoft Entra Administrative Units (AUs) and Restricted Management Administrative Units (RMAUs) Despite being incredibly useful, AUs and RMAUs are still underutilized in many environments


Microsoft trials (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:44:19 UTC+02:00


Entra ID - Entra Connect - Secure App & Certificate-Based Authentication is here! Plus: I built you a better way to manage it (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 29 May 2025 07:54:53 UTC+02:00


Using Azure Service Groups in an Enterprise-Scale Landing Zone (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Wed, 28 May 2025 09:48:00 UTC

Introduction Azure Service Groups are a new governance feature designed to simplify network rule management across services in your Azure environment


Day Two Devops – Azure VNets Don’t Exist (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Wed, 28 May 2025 08:51:04 UTC

I had the pleasure of chatting with Ned Bellavance and Kyler Middleton on Day Two DevOps one evening recently to discuss the basics of Azure networking, using my line β€œAzure Virtual Networks Do Not Exist”


How to Install Azure Arc on an On-Premises Windows Server: Step-by-Step Guide (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Tue, 27 May 2025 07:31:16 UTC

Introduction Azure Arc enables you to manage your on-premises Windows Servers as if they were native Azure resources


Securing Microsoft Business Premium Part 05: Efficient Identity Management for External Users with Microsoft Entra (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 26 May 2025 05:00:17 UTC

Managing external users is one of the most tediousβ€”but also criticalβ€”challenges in a Microsoft Business Premium environment


Azure Arc - Introducing AACMAToolkit: A New Azure Arc Management Tool (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 22:01:56 UTC+02:00


Entra ID - Managed Identity Permissions Manager - Performance Stats and Community Insights (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 13 May 2025 21:37:21 UTC+02:00


Time for a new lab enviroment - Part 1 (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 04 May 2025 20:10:38 UTC+02:00


How to Become a Hashicorp Ambassador (Stories by Jack Roper on Medium)

Published: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:43:23 UTC

I was recently honored to be awarded the title of Hashicorp Ambassador for the second year


Go With the Flow: Mastering Microsoft Entra User Flowsβ€”Self-Service Sign-Up in a Workforce tenant (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:00:10 UTC

Managing new guest accounts can be a daunting taskβ€”especially when you’re dealing with high turnover, distributed teams, or unknown user lists


πŸš€ A huge thank you β€” and a little update behind the scenes (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:01:13 UTC+02:00


Laying the Groundwork for Azure Success: It Starts with a Solid Foundation #postcast #Azure #ESLZ #CAF #WAF #ARA #MVPBuzz (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:51:40 UTC

This is a little test on an Azure Rapid Assessment, I’m using AI to plot my ideas into a logical story, I created a movie but thought a podcast is handier as an example


Defender for Identity – Unveiling Enhanced Visibility – New Service Account Monitoring Capabilities (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 17:09:10 UTC+02:00


ExpressRoute Metro - revisit design guidance and pricing (Adam Stuart)

Published: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 06:39:53 UTC


Getting started with GitHub CoPilot (Stories by Jack Roper on Medium)

Published: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:44:08 UTC

Copilot Exam Study GuideContinue reading on ITNEXT Β»


Virtual WAN migration - ExpressRoute traffic asymmetry and routing Weight (Adam Stuart)

Published: Fri, 04 Apr 2025 06:06:14 UTC

Microsoft Cloud Solutions Architect, Tom Atkinson, explains why sometimes routing weight on ExpressRoute connections can cause issues during migrations to Azure Virtual WAN.


Is Europe Going to β€œF-35” American Clouds? (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:54:44 UTC

There is no doubt that we are living in interesting times


Microsoft Azure - Secure your Code with Trusted Signing: A Practical Guide (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:05:39 UTC+01:00


Signtool GUI  – v. 1.4.0.0 is out! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:25:43 UTC+01:00


Contributions (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:10:56 UTC+01:00


Designing A Hub And Spoke Infrastructure (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:48:04 UTC

How do you plan a hub & spoke architecture? Based on much of what I have witnessed, I think very few people do any planning at all


Designing An Azure Hub Virtual Network (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:41:05 UTC

In this post, I am going to share a process for designing a hub virtual network for a hub & spoke secured virtual network deployment in Microsoft Azure


Exploring Network Security Perimeters in Azure ()

Published: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:00:00 UTC

Spring is here again and I’m pleased to once again be contributing a post as part of theΒ Azure Spring CleanΒ event organised by Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton


Terraform apply fails with clientCredentialsToken already expired. (Stories by Jack Roper on Medium)

Published: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:11:02 UTC

In this short article, I’ll explain why you might be receiving the following message in your Terraform pipelines, and how to troubleshoot…Continue reading on System Weakness Β»


πŸš€ Managed Identity Permission Manager v1.1.0.0 is here! πŸš€ (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:23:25 UTC+01:00


Microsoft Azure - Elevate Access to Resources with Entra ID Audit Logs – Now Available! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:27:49 UTC+01:00


Entra ID - New build-in audit feature in Entra Connect is finally here! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:52:17 UTC+01:00


Mastering GitHub Actions: How to use CodeQL for code security analysis (Stories by Jack Roper on Medium)

Published: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:01:12 UTC

What is CodeQL?Continue reading on ITNEXT Β»


Managed Identity Permission Manager – v. 1.0.0.4 is out! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:17:02 UTC+01:00


Mastering GitHub Actions: Getting Started with GitHub Actions from the Marketplace (Stories by Jack Roper on Medium)

Published: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:12:56 UTC

In this post, we will look at how to use freely available GitHub actions from the GitHub Actions Marketplace to automatically send a tweet…Continue reading on CodeX Β»


Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps - Permissions filter and export capability is here! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:12:30 UTC+01:00


Windows Server 2025 SMB Compression #ws2025 #winserv #SMB (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:01:59 UTC

Unlocking the Power of SMB Compression in Windows Server 2025 In the ever-evolving landscape of IT infrastructure, efficient data transfer is paramount


What a 2024 - a new year is now over and a new begings (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:50:12 UTC+01:00


About me (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 UTC+01:00


Managed Identity Permission Manager – v. 1.0.0.3 is out! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 23:28:40 UTC+01:00


ExpressRoute Direct + FastPath + UDR considerations (Adam Stuart)

Published: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:02:30 UTC

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/about-fastpath


Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps - Visibility into applications with highly privileged permissions, whether used or unused (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 20:20:56 UTC+01:00


Tidings of Comfort and Joy with Azure’s Business Continuity Center ()

Published: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:00:00 UTC

I’m delighted to present my contribution to the Festive Tech Calendar which is now in it’s sixth year


Azure NetApp Files (ANF) Networking - Basic vs Standard (Adam Stuart)

Published: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 08:22:14 UTC

Brief overview of ANF, its Networking options, and demo of how they impact UDR considerations.


Windows - Hotpatching is now possible on clients - rebootless updates is here! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 22:06:05 UTC+01:00


Upgrading to Windows Server 2025: A Step-by-Step Guide #ws2025 #winserv #AzureArc (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:08:27 UTC

What’s New in Windows Server 2025 Windows Server 2025 is here, bringing a host of exciting new features and improvements designed to enhance security, performance, and flexibility


Azure Virtual WAN Route Maps (with BGP Peering) (Adam Stuart)

Published: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:34:03 UTC


Starting with Azure Arc pros vs cons #Arc #HCI #Azure #jumpstart (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:29:21 UTC

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, hybrid solutions like Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI are gaining traction


GitHub Backup Tool - update 1.3.1.0 is out (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 07:14:22 UTC+01:00


Deploy Maester with Terraform: A Simple Guide (HΓ₯vard LΓΈkensgard)

Published: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:38:11 UTC

Maester is a PowerShell-based framework for automating security testing within Microsoft environments, developed by Merill Fernando, Faben Bader, and Thomas Naunheim


Azure Gateways BGP deep-dive - ExpressRoute, VPN, Route Server (Adam Stuart)

Published: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 08:28:23 UTC

00:00 Intro 04:40 Topology detail 05:55 On-premises VPN configuration 10:07 Azure VPN Gateway configuration 12:33 Azure Route Server 13:08 VPN Gateway BGP peers 14:10 VPN Gateway BGP routes 16:38 ExpressRoute Circuit BGP peers 18:48 ExpressRoute Gateway BGP routes 20:24 Packet walk 22:40 Disable ARS Branch-to-branch Daniel's lab: https://github.com/dmauser/Lab/tree/master/RS-ER-VPN-Gateway-Transit


Mastering Azure Virtual Network Manager for Security and Efficiency (HΓ₯vard LΓΈkensgard)

Published: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:00:00 UTC

The Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) transforms the task of altering network infrastructure into a simplified process


Managed Identity Permission Manager – v. 1.0.0.2 is out! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:51:18 UTC+01:00


Introducing Azure DevOps Backup Tool 1.1.2.0: Security update! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:21:02 UTC+01:00


Managed Identity Permission Manager - A new tool is out to test - v. 1 (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:16:50 UTC+02:00


Microsoft Defender for Identity - New posture recommendations focusing on Active Directory (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 21:19:00 UTC+02:00


ExpressRoute AZ Gateway Powershell demo (no audio) (Adam Stuart)

Published: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:47:07 UTC

Single GatewaySubnet prefix, /27 subnet size, High perf to ERGW1AZ SKU.


Import and Export Automation rules for Microsoft Sentinel - Unified SOC Platform (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:29:52 UTC+02:00


Introducing Azure DevOps Backup Tool 1.1.1.0: Update with new features and bug fixes! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:24:56 UTC+02:00


Azure Firewall Private DNAT (Solutions for Overlapping IP addresses in Azure Part 2) (Adam Stuart)

Published: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:20:40 UTC

https://youtu.be/K3-isCrb17o https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-network-security-blog/private-ip-dnat-support-and-scenarios-with-azure-firewall/ba-p/4230073?trk=feed-detail_main-feed-card_feed-article-content


New feature in Entra ID Governance ELM - support for request on-behalf-of (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 UTC

Think about it - if you have access packages governing access to Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows Cloud PC, Citrix, or other remote tools, and new hires need access from day one, managers would historically have to place a manual request to an IGA admin who would then add users to the correct access packages manually


Staying Updated on Tech: My Weekly Tools (HΓ₯vard LΓΈkensgard)

Published: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:00:00 UTC

I often get asked how to stay updated on major tech updates


Microsoft Defender for Identity - Expands support to servers with Microsoft Entra Connect (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:51:09 UTC+02:00


Microsoft Defender for Identity - How to manually remove a malfunctioning sensor that can't be installed, uninstalled or removed (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:42:04 UTC+02:00


Introducing Azure DevOps Backup Tool 1.1.0.0: Major update with new features, bug fixes and enhanced security! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:06:57 UTC+02:00


Managing ACLs in Azure at scale without IaC or scripts ()

Published: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:31:22 UTC

If you are reading this post then you have probably at some point had to perform maintenance on an access control list (ACL)


SignToolGUI - A new tool is here for your digital signing experience - Now public! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:21:04 UTC+02:00


Proxy via Private Link - Disconnected VNets, centralised Internet egress (Adam Stuart)

Published: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:00:50 UTC


Azure Arc - Windows Admin Center - Cant connect with error: CouldnΒ΄t get server data, ajax error (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:42:09 UTC+02:00


Entra ID – Global Secure Access – Now Generally Available! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:15:06 UTC+02:00


Introducing Azure DevOps Backup Tool 1.0.5.9: Enhanced security, optimization and bug fixes! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:28:58 UTC+02:00


Reflecting on a remarkable first half of the year 2024! ✨ (Sonne´s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 22:59:34 UTC+02:00


Virtual Network Flow Logs vs ExpressRoute Traffic Collector (Adam Stuart)

Published: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:28:52 UTC

Comparing these two Azure networking visibility features, which tool is right for the job? Spoiler; there is a use case for both :).


Azure Virtual Network Manager – A game changer or just a costly upgrade? (HΓ₯vard LΓΈkensgard)

Published: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 08:00:00 UTC

Intro Managing networks in Azure can pose significant challenges due to the multitude of resources involved


Veeam Backup M365 – Exchange Online backup fails with error: Failed to get folder properties. Not allowed to access non IPM folder (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:49:02 UTC+02:00


ExpressRoute Traffic Collector (Adam Stuart)

Published: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:05:27 UTC

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/traffic-collector


Entra ID – Global Secure Access Client – Assign users and groups to forwarding profiles (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:38:15 UTC+02:00


Introducing a new tool - Lookup IP to DNS Tool - v. 1.0.0.3! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 25 May 2024 16:42:47 UTC+02:00


Azure Virtual WAN: Personal Experiences and Key Considerations (HΓ₯vard LΓΈkensgard)

Published: Mon, 13 May 2024 09:00:00 UTC

Are you intrigued by Azure Virtual WAN? If so, continue reading


Entra ID - Exploring the new feature: What's New (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 10 May 2024 12:55:13 UTC+02:00


Azure Portal collapsed service menus #azure #portal #ui #ux (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Wed, 08 May 2024 07:47:06 UTC

Recently the menu structure in Azure is changed into a collapsed and expanded menu, Don’t know who thought it was the best option to have all the blades in collapsed mode


Defender for Cloud - Reset to free tier via PowerShell (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 02 May 2024 16:16:41 UTC+02:00


Introducing Azure DevOps Backup Tool 1.0.5.8: Enhanced security, optimization and bug fixes! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 21:34:46 UTC+02:00


Copilot is not available or is opening Edge. GeographicRegionFailed #AI #Copilot #edge (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:36:28 UTC

Already for some time I was a happy user of Copilot


Windows Server 2025 vs 2022: Detailed Overview (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:24:18 UTC

Windows Server 2025 represents the next evolution of Microsoft’s server operating system, aiming to enhance security, performance, scalability, and IT infrastructure management


Azure Firewall: A Comprehensive Comparison and Best Practices (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:08:04 UTC

Azure Firewall, a managed, cloud-based network security service, is an essential component of Azure’s security offerings


Microsoft Defender XDR - Unified Security Operations Platform (Sentinel and Defender) (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:04:07 UTC+02:00


Defender for Office 365 - Hunting and responding to QR code-based phishing attacks (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:16:25 UTC+02:00


Introducing GitHub Backup Tool 1.3.0.0: Enhanced customization, security and bug fixes! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 23:41:40 UTC+01:00


Azure - Automating Management Group Removal in Azure with PowerShell (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 23:35:41 UTC+01:00


Introducing GitHub Backup Tool 1.2.0.0: Enhanced Security and Customization (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:26:55 UTC+01:00


Microsoft 365 Developer Program - Attention to all Microsoft 365 developers and learners! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:39:13 UTC+01:00


Get prepared for default outbound access retirement ()

Published: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:55:00 UTC

This post is part of the Azure Spring Clean event organised by Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton


Entra ID - Global Secure Access Client - Setup of the Microsoft 365 Profile - Part 3 (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:33:18 UTC+01:00


Secure Boot - What it is and how to update Secure Boot keys (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 12:32:40 UTC+01:00


GitHub - Get a local backup of your code repositories - v. 1 of the tool (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 11:59:29 UTC+01:00


Navigating the Challenges of Policy as Code in Azure: Part 2 (HΓ₯vard LΓΈkensgard)

Published: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:00:00 UTC

Previously, I have written about some challenges around policy as code


Honored to receive the Microsoft MVP Award in Security - Febuary 2024! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:35:58 UTC+01:00


PowerShell - Code Sign and validate files in a folder with optimized logic (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:07:29 UTC+01:00


Microsoft Defender for Identity - Updated Advanced Settings Page (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 11:46:58 UTC+01:00


Entra ID - Global Secure Access Client - Installation of the Agent on Windows - Part 2 (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:21:21 UTC+01:00


Microsoft Defender XDR - Offboarding scripts will now expire in 3 days and not 30 days (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:01:05 UTC+01:00


My tools (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:25:21 UTC+01:00


Microsoft maked the source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to the public (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:28:10 UTC+01:00


Entra ID - Global Secure Access Client - What it is about - Part 1 (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:53:47 UTC+01:00


Configure email authentication for domains you own in Exchange Online (SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MTA-STS) (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:56:29 UTC+01:00


Defender for Cloud - Permissions Management - New Features added to Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:45:38 UTC+01:00


Introducing Windows Server 2025 running in Azure #Winsrv #Azure #Security #Windowsinsiders (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 07:11:46 UTC

Microsoft’s newest iteration, Windows Server 2025, signifies a major advancement in server technology


Microsoft Defender for Identity - What is it, how to install it and setup requirements (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:30:53 UTC+01:00


PowerShell - Automatically retrieve download links from Microsoft Evaluation Center (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 22:54:25 UTC+01:00


Entra ID - Stale Application Analysis with PowerShell (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:09:07 UTC+01:00


Microsoft Defender XDR - Activity log and change incident severity (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:20:53 UTC+01:00


Azure Bastion with Azure Virtual Wan Microsoft #Azure #AzureBastion #AzureNetworking #Vwan #AzOps #blogpost #MVPBuzz (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:51:00 UTC

Azure Bastion is a service you deploy that lets you connect to a virtual machine using your browser and the Azure portal, or via the native SSH or RDP client already installed on your local computer


Microsoft Defender XDR - Experience Improvements for Advanced Hunting (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 15:39:49 UTC+01:00


Staying productive with the Pomodoro Technique (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 UTC

Continue reading on zimmergren.net β†’


Reflecting on 2023: A Year of Achievements, Growth, and Gratitude (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:40:57 UTC+01:00


Entra ID - Quota Limit - Learn to manage your usage to avoid maxing it out and extend it before it's too late (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:59:22 UTC+01:00


Tips for MVP Summit 2024 ()

Published: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:40:59 UTC

This year I was lucky enough to attend my first in person MVP Summit, an annual event where all active Microsoft MVPs have an opportunity to attend an exclusive event hosted by Microsoft and with NDA content delivered by Microsoft leadership teams and program managers (PMs). This year’s event was the first summit since the pandemic … Continue reading Tips for MVP SummitΒ 2024


Microsoft Defender for Endpoint plug-in for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) - finally! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:29:02 UTC+01:00


Get email notifications for actions performed in Defender XDR (Defender for Endpoint) (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:07:06 UTC+01:00


Microsoft applied skills assessments ()

Published: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:58:35 UTC

Microsoft very recently released a new option for obtaining new skills based credentials


You can now finally upgrade to Windows 11 23H2! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:08:29 UTC+01:00


Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: New and more streamlined device connectivity on the way (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:13:56 UTC+01:00


Entra ID - Comming: Auto-rollout of basic Conditional Access policies to protect your tenant - is missing in so many tenants so finally! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:34:28 UTC+02:00


Frameworks to strategically improve your cybersecurity (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 UTC

Learn about popular cybersecurity frameworks like NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), CISAs Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPG), MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND, Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework's Secure methodology, and Microsoft's CISO Workshop Training.


Learnings from the NSA and CISA top 10 cybersecurity misconfigurations (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 UTC

Learn more about the joint advisory by the NSA and CISA, highlighting the top 10 cybersecurity misconfigurations commonly found in large organizations' networks.


What is the Cybercrime Atlas? (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 UTC

The Cybercrime Atlas is an initiative launched by the World Economic Forum to better understand and combat cybercrime globally


Azure Backup in 2023: Features you should know about ()

Published: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:38:06 UTC

I’ve been meaning to write a new post about Azure Backup for a while, and with the recent general availability announcements of several features, now seems like the perfect time


Using Azure Compute Gallery to help deliver a managed multi-customer desktop solution ()

Published: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:00:00 UTC

As the kids go back to school this September, the Azure learning continues and I’m pleased to be contributing once again to the Azure Back to School event


Windows 11 22H2 Breaks virtual switches in Hyper-V #windows11 #fix #break #hyperv #vswitch Β #WindowsInsiders (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:27:43 UTC

Windows 11 22H2 Breaks virtual switches in Hyper-V After updating to Windows 11 22H2 all my hyper-v VM’s did not work any more


Messed up NTFS permissions? - how to cleanup and remove users/groups there should NOT be there (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 13:47:00 UTC+02:00


Celebrating 200 episodes of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 UTC

Continue reading on zimmergren.net β†’


What’s lurking in your Microsoft Graph app role assignments? (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 UTC

I’ve earlier blogged about Building a comprehensive report on admin role assignments in Powershell, this time we’ll look at app role assignments instead.


Move a Recovery Services vault across Azure subscriptions and resource group #Backup #ASR #Azure #ITpro #powershell (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:02:45 UTC

When working on migrations from datacenter to datacenter you often move the backup to a file storage keep it as archive


How is it now you get a refund for Microsoft 365 and Azure downtime and see service status? (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:19:38 UTC+02:00


Lets create a Free Lab with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Simulate some RansomwareΒ Attacks - get the correct free trial (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:24:41 UTC+02:00


Azure AD - Why use Cloud-Only Administrative/normal accounts and how to protect them in Azure AD from on-premises attacks (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 04 Jul 2023 17:40:04 UTC+02:00


The Importance of Updating Installed PowerShell Modules - And automate it too with my script (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:10:32 UTC+02:00


Secure your Azure Management portal (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:23:29 UTC+02:00


Azure AD Application Activity Report Analysis (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 20:05:37 UTC+02:00


12 quick tips to secure your identities in Microsoft 365 (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 20:19:35 UTC+02:00


What is Customer lockbox in Azure, and how to use it? (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 08:58:32 UTC+02:00


SQL Server analysis service SSAS Can’t connect Remote An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host #SQL #SQLServer #Azure #SQLHelp (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:30:11 UTC

For some time I build/rebuild many SQL sites and often migrate the β€œold” servers to Azure


What is Customer lockbox in Microsoft 365, and how to use it? (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 10:40:32 UTC+02:00


Exchange Online - Block sign-in from shared mailboxes (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:35:53 UTC+02:00


Evaluation Center was unavailable. Where do I download ISOs now if this happen again? (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 10:49:00 UTC+02:00


Point-to-Site Internet breakout through Azure Virtual WAN ()

Published: Fri, 19 May 2023 10:00:00 UTC

This is an interesting one that has come up a few times with some customers who want to use forced tunnelling through a VPN to Azure for remote workers and NAT out to the Internet using a Microsoft public IP address


Building an Active Directory/Windows Server Lab (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 16 May 2023 13:21:12 UTC+02:00


Azure DevOps - Use Azure Key Vauls for secrets in your Pipelines (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 13 May 2023 16:26:54 UTC+02:00


Azure AD Admin and use of PIM Email forwarding for your admin accounts notifications (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 12 May 2023 23:03:46 UTC+02:00


Network Device Discovery & Vulnerability Management with Microsoft 365 Defender (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Mon, 08 May 2023 09:39:26 UTC+02:00


Secure authentication method provisioning with Temporary Access Pass (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 07 May 2023 12:32:16 UTC+02:00


Azure DevOps - Get a local backup of your code repositories (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 06 May 2023 12:10:48 UTC+02:00


Break Glass account - and how to get notified when a Break Glass account is used (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 04 May 2023 23:08:50 UTC+02:00


Set up a free Microsoft Intune lab tenant with Microsoft 365 developer subscription (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 04 May 2023 13:25:11 UTC+02:00


Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 - Why you need to back up your Microsoft 365 data! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 04 May 2023 11:31:02 UTC+02:00


How to disable Automapping for a shared mailbox in Outlook for Office 365? (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Tue, 02 May 2023 19:17:58 UTC+02:00


Configure Exchange Online Certificate Based Authentication for unattended scripts (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:16:05 UTC+02:00


Why donate? (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 14:59:14 UTC+02:00


How to use Windows LAPS - PowerShell (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 13:06:33 UTC+02:00


Find Active Directory accounts configured to use DES and RC4 Kerberos encryption (is insecure!) (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:42:34 UTC+02:00


Still Using Azure Cloud Services (Classic) ? #Azure #ARM #ASM #Cloud #EOL #ESLZ #CAF #WAF (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 09:53:05 UTC

Azure Cloud Services (Classic) was a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering from Microsoft Azure that allowed developers to deploy, manage, and scale web applications and services in the cloud


Microsoft 365: What is and how to set up β€œIdle session timeout”? (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 21:46:01 UTC+02:00


Redacting sensitive information with Application Insights in C# (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 UTC

This article teaches you how to redact sensitive information in Application Insights when you send traces from your .NET applications.


The Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Recommended Configuration Analyzer (ORCA) (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 22:57:02 UTC+02:00


Windows LAPS and management through Microsoft Intune (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 16:08:39 UTC+02:00


Defend against MFA phishing of Azure AD user identities (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 UTC

Continuing on from the Securing user identities in Azure AD beyond MFA blog post, but this time looking at how to prevent MFA phishing attacks.


Self Service Password Reset write-back problem – error hr=80230818 (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 23:06:47 UTC+02:00


Securing your Azure/Microsoft 365 environment with Principle of Least Privilege and Azure PIM (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:04:45 UTC+02:00


Configure Azure AD Connect Health email notifications to continue to receive notifications when synchronization errors occur in Azure AD Connect (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 08 Apr 2023 20:17:00 UTC+02:00


Follow β€˜just-enough-access’ principle by scoping resources during role elevation in Azure PIM (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 UTC

Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Azure is a service that helps organizations to manage, govern and monitor access to resources in Azure and Azure AD


Welcome! (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 20:29:00 UTC+02:00


Contact me (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:22:15 UTC+02:00


Securing user identities in Azure AD beyond MFA (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 UTC

No pretty screenshots this time, but I’ll try to keep it short and to the point.


Getting started with Microsoft Sentinel ()

Published: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 09:50:00 UTC

Welcome to my post for this year’s Azure Spring Clean


Routing hub & spoke virtual networks through a network virtual appliance ()

Published: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 13:35:54 UTC

I was recently involved in deploying a Watchguard network virtual appliance (NVA) to Azure, something I had last performed several years ago but back then it was a very basic setup and everything, including the NVA itself was deployed to a single Azure virtual network


Does data going to M365 count as Internet egress bandwidth in Azure? ()

Published: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:19:24 UTC

I do get asked from time to time from customers if they should account for usage of Microsoft 365 services in an Azure Virtual Desktop environment towards their Internet egress traffic estimations


Ultra-wide (21:9) vs a typical 4K (16:9) monitor for productive work (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure a custom number of vCPUs use Virtual machines selector #Azure #MVPBuzz #Scale #Compute (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:37:58 UTC

Some database workloads like SQL Server require high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth, but not a high number of cores


Reading e-mails with Microsoft Graph using .NET (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 UTC

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A short recap of ESPC 2022 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 UTC

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Why are you not using Azure Hybrid Use Benefit? ()

Published: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:05:23 UTC

As many of you may know, I work for a CSP distributor so I deal with licensing A LOT


Build sustainable solutions on Azure and save money (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Are you building sustainable cloud solutions? If not, read this!


Microsoft Ignite 2022 (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:23:45 UTC

As always you are waiting for some good events and #MSIgnite is a great event, this year 2022 is was hybrid, for me to limited to join in person, but as always great content is announced


Favorite security-focused open-source workbooks for Azure Monitor and Microsoft Sentinel (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Let's explore some of the Open Source workbooks that exist for Azure Monitor and Microsoft Sentinel


Upgrading Azure Load Balancer from Basic to Standard SKU ()

Published: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:28:07 UTC

You may be reading this if you have recently received an email from Microsoft prompting you to take action and upgrade your basic SKU Azure Load Balancers to the standard SKU


Building a comprehensive report on Azure AD admin role assignments in Powershell (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Unassigning inactive roles, verifying that all role holders have registered MFA and are active users, auditing service principals, role-assignable groups and guests with roles, move users from active to eligible roles in PIM (Privileged Identity Management), and making sure that no synchronized users have privileged roles are just a few ideas for why you should be reporting on this topic.


Azure Chaos Studio ()

Published: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:17:37 UTC

I posted a video on Azure Chaos Studio as my contribution to Azure Back to School 2022


Start with Cloud Adoption Framework enterprise-scale landing zones #CAF #Azure #Cloud #MVPBuzz (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 11:46:00 UTC

The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure enterprise-scale landing zone architecture varies between customers.Β So there is no one size fits all but there is a lot in common that can be reused next time


How to: Remind me to reply to messages in Microsoft Teams (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Learn about the easiest capability for reminding yourself about Microsoft Teams messages


Query Azure AD logs with KQL from Powershell (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 UTC

KQL, short for Kusto Query Language, is really great for quering data sets like Sign-in Logs and Audit Logs in Azure AD


Testing your internet speed from the command line on Windows, Linux, or Mac (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 UTC

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Exam Study Guide: SC-100 - Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 UTC

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How to query a Private DNS Zone over Point-to-Site connection with Azure DNS Private Resolver ()

Published: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:00:00 UTC

The issue With more and more services going cloud native it’s becoming increasingly more common for organisations not to rely on DNS servers anymore


I'm working at Microsoft (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 UTC

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Retirement of superseded Microsoft Entra Connect Connect Sync versions (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:02:24 UTC+02:00


Goodbye, Rencore! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 UTC

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can now isolates hacked, unmanaged Windows devices (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:05:00 UTC+02:00


Microsoft: Windows update to permanently disable Internet Explorer (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 10:16:00 UTC+02:00


Upgrade – Install System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2022 #SCVMM #Azure #Hybrid #AzureArc #AzOps #Sysctr (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:04:38 UTC

System Center – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Is there for a long time, many used this as the primary tool for managing the virtual and physical environment, but now days Cloud is playing more and more a big role in the infrastructure, Tools are also switching with Azure Arc or with Windows Admin center you … Continue reading "Upgrade – Install System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2022 #SCVMM #Azure #Hybrid #AzureArc #AzOpsΒ #Sysctr"


How to manage M365 portal directly from Microsoft Teams? (SonneΒ΄s Cloud on Michael Morten Sonne | Microsoft MVP)

Published: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 12:06:00 UTC+02:00


Azure Backup – Recovery Services Vault versus Backup Vault ()

Published: Tue, 31 May 2022 13:01:48 UTC

I’ve had a few people ask me recently about the difference between two resources that are both used for Azure Backup, namely Recovery Services Vault and the newer Backup Vault


Recommended books about Azure security! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 UTC

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Use the Resource Explorer from the Azure Portal (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 UTC

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Three habits to improve health and work-life balance (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 UTC

I've worked remotely for more than eight years


Top 3 favorite capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Cloud (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Working with Microsoft Defender for Cloud is amazing


Fixing the "Loading Microsoft Teams" infinite loop (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Solve the "Loading Microsoft Teams..." dialog that gets stuck in an infinite loop.


Estimating the real cost of Microsoft Defender for Cloud (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 UTC

It can be tricky to understand the cost of Microsoft Defender for Cloud


Granting workload identities least-privilege mailbox access via Microsoft Graph (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Forget about POP3, IMAP, Exchange Web Services (EWS) and other legacy protocols for accessing mailbox resources programmatically


Favorite Visual Studio Code extensions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Find some of my favorite Visual Studio Code extensions here, including screenshots and explanations why I think these are worth downloading.


Obfuscate strings in KQL queries (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Learn how to obfuscate strings in KQL queries in Azure Data Explorer


Azure customer management for MSPs ()

Published: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 08:00:00 UTC

It’s that time of the year again and I’m delighted to be taking part once more inΒ Azure Spring Clean, a community event focused on Azure management best practises


MSP: The well-tempered Azure tenant – Part 7 ()

Published: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:00:00 UTC

Welcome to the final part of my well-tempered Azure tenant series for MSPs


MSP: The well-tempered Azure tenant – Part 6 ()

Published: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:00:00 UTC

Welcome to part 6 of my well-tempered Azure tenant series for MSPs


MSP: The well-tempered Azure tenant – Part 5 ()

Published: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:00:00 UTC

Welcome to part 5 of my well-tempered Azure tenant series for MSPs


Backup Azure Firewall with virtual wan #Azure #SDWAN #Backup #Runbook (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:32:00 UTC

Azure Backup can’t backup the Azure firewall directly additional steps need to be done before you can backup the Firewall rules


MSP: The well-tempered Azure tenant – Part 4 ()

Published: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:00:00 UTC

Welcome to part 4 of my well-tempered Azure tenant series for MSPs


Generate Bicep templates from existing Azure resources with VS Code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Use Visual Studio Code to conveniently generate Azure Bicep templates for your resources, allowing you to work faster and smarter with templates!


Understanding Azure Log Analytics query auditing (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 UTC

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MSP: The well-tempered Azure tenant – Part 3 ()

Published: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:00:00 UTC

Welcome to part 3 of my well-tempered Azure tenant series for MSPs


Track your Secure Score over time in Azure (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Use Microsoft Defender for Cloud continuous export to enable tracking of the historical Secure score in your Azure subscriptions.


MSP: The well-tempered Azure tenant – Part 2 ()

Published: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 10:00:00 UTC

Welcome to part 2 of my well-tempered Azure tenant series for MSPs


How to Create a Windows server 2022 SOFS Cluster on a VM #sofs #ws2022 #winserv #hyperv #Azure #Windows11 #WiMVP (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:30:34 UTC

Building a test lab is always depending on the resource you have


Using the Azure Load Testing service (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Use the Azure Load Testing service to put your applications under stress and learn where the weak spots are - both in the application and dependent services.


How to save your old virtual machines to low cost archive storage ()

Published: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:00:00 UTC

I had an interesting request this week with a customer who had some decommissioned Azure virtual machines but for compliance reasons needed to retain the data on the disks for 7 years


MSP: The well-tempered Azure tenant – Part 1 ()

Published: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:00:00 UTC

This post will be the first in a series that I’ve been thinking about putting together for a while now


Free eBook – A SysAdmin’s Guide to Azure IaaS – Second Edition.Β #Altaro #Sysadmin #IaaS (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:50:10 UTC

Free eBook – A SysAdmin’s Guide to Azure IaaS – Second Edition


Get the Container Instances usage in an Azure subscription (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Using the Azure management APIs to list Azure Container Instance usage helps us understand how close to the limits we are!


Create Azure Monitor Alert Rules with Azure Bicep (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:00:00 UTC

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Don’t use user accounts for your Logic App connections ()

Published: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 14:25:46 UTC

I have seen an increasing number of users switching from using automation accounts to using virtual machine automation task templates (logic apps) for virtual machine stop/start automation


Developing an automated Advent calendar static web app ()

Published: Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:07:05 UTC

Yes, it’s that time of the year once again! This post accompanies my contribution to theΒ Festive Tech Calendar 2021Β which as always is an online community event running throughout the month of December


How to remove Azure Disk Encryption from disks that have already been decrypted ()

Published: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:00:00 UTC

I had an interesting one this week that I thought was worth posting about just in case it might help some others in the same situation


How to use Azure proximity placement groups #Azure #SAP #Latency (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 15:18:00 UTC

When moving to Azure or building new infrastructure workloads latency is important and where do I find the numbers of how do I configure it for the best and what is the difference between Azure Availability groups or Azure Availability zones or do I need Azure Site Recovery


#Free #eBook – How to Get the Most Out of Windows Admin CenterΒ #Altaro #WAC #Hybrid (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:46:48 UTC

Free eBook – How to Get the Most Out of Windows Admin Center – Second Edition


Azure Virtual Network Manager (Preview) – A First Look ()

Published: Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:00:00 UTC

One of the many Azure networking announcements at Microsoft Ignite recently was the release to public preview of Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM)


Quickly discover any expiring certificates for Azure App Services (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 UTC

Discover expiring Azure App Service certificates using Azure Resource Graph queries.


Problems on Joining Windows Server 2022 to a domain controller forest functional level is not supported #winserv #AD #Azure (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:33:30 UTC

This is the first post in the new layout, personally I think I will change it again as the text frame is to small, but let me know your thoughts When migration machines to Azure or to a different OS You will often face all kinds of errors and issues


Website maintenance (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 07:59:07 UTC

During some events on the blog I need to redo some work


Custom RSS feed notifications with a logic app ()

Published: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:00:00 UTC

This blog post covers another self-service task that I deployed for myself recently just to see if I could make life a bit easier


Sending e-mails with Microsoft Graph using .NET (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00:00 UTC

Sending e-mails from custom applications and integrations in the cloud is relatively easy


Vaak krijg je wel eens de vraag wat doe jij van werk, Oh IT… dus iets met computers eh.. ja maar IT is meer dan capslock uit zetten. #TrotsopIT #patching #MVPBuzz #security #cloudrocks (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 10:09:02 UTC

Soms start je de dag net als alle andere dagen, rustig met een bakkie koffie en je wandelt rusting naar kantoor, ploft neer aan je desk, klop je aan in je mail approved je sign (fido2) en doet je dingetje https://robertsmit.wordpress.com/2020/08/18/starting-with-fido2-security-keys-with-azure-active-directory-trustkey-pointblank-fido-azure-security-aad/ Vaak krijg je wel eens de vraag wat doe jij van werk, Oh IT… … Continue reading "Vaak krijg je wel eens de vraag wat doe jij van werk, Oh IT… dus iets met computers eh.


Auto delete expired Azure test resources ()

Published: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:05:25 UTC

This blog post documents something that I’ve been meaning to implement for a while and have now finally got around to doing so


What are On-demand capacity reservations? ()

Published: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:00:00 UTC

In the past week we saw the release to public preview of on-demand capacity reservations for Azure virtual machines


Autoscaling Managed Disk Performance Tiers without downtime ()

Published: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 20:15:27 UTC

In the past week, Microsoft have released a new feature into general availability that allows you to change the performance tier of managed disks without any downtime to the virtual machine


Deep-linking Azure Log Analytics and Application Insights queries (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 UTC

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A tour of the new look App Service networking features ()

Published: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:06:18 UTC

There has been a recent Azure portal UI update to the networking features of the Azure App Service


How to use Root Domains with Azure Front Door ()

Published: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 09:12:51 UTC

Azure Front Door is a great global load balancing service for web applications


Enforce authentication when sending Application Insights telemetry (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:00:00 UTC

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Establish your organizational compliance readiness (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 UTC

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Productivity tips for PowerToys Run on Windows (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:00:00 UTC

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It’s time to start using Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure ()

Published: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:21:47 UTC

In this post, I wanted to highlight the key benefits of using Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure


Tags (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:00:00 UTC

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Visualize Log Analytics data ingestion using Microsoft Sentinel (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 26 May 2021 00:00:00 UTC

With Microsoft's built-in workbook template in Azure Sentinel, named "Data collection health monitoring", we can visualize the data ingestion and quickly understand our workspaces and the data we have.


Create Azure DevOps or GitHub bugs from Azure Monitor logs (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 UTC

When operating distributed applications it can be a lot of work if you want to copy error details into tickets and work items for your teams to look at


Discover sensitive Key Vault operations with Microsoft Sentinel (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 UTC

Microsoft's Azure Key Vault Security workbook helps you structure the explorations of sensitive operations in your Azure Key Vaults


Two exams, one month ()

Published: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:54:32 UTC

I’m pleased to say that I’ve added a new new DevOps Engineer expert badge to the sidebar of my website


Fixing NuGet error: Unable to load the service index for source - 401 Unauthorized (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00:00 UTC

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Solution: Unable to find .deps.json when running .NET 5 tests in Azure DevOps (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:00:00 UTC

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HA for web apps with private link to database ()

Published: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:33:57 UTC

It’s fairly typical for customers to want to make a web application highly available be utilising multiple Azure regions


Enable transparent background in Windows Terminal (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:00 UTC

We're taking a look at how to enable opacity/transparency in the Windows Terminal.


Install custom themes in Windows Terminal (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:00 UTC

Here's another tip for how to customize the experience in Windows Terminal


Making Windows Terminal look awesome with oh-my-posh (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:00 UTC

If you really want to improve the Windows Terminal experience, and enhance the visual aids when you're navigating and working with command lines like Git, then this is for you


Set images as background in Windows Terminal (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:00 UTC

We're exploring how to configure images as backgrounds for Windows Terminal


Set the default starting directory in Windows Terminal (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:00 UTC

We're diving into another post about the Windows Terminal and a common question I receive - how did you configure the starting directory to always be your desired folder? Let's check it out.


Using third-party terminals within Windows Terminal (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:00 UTC

I received questions about my Windows Terminal experience


Live Monitoring Your VM Connections With Network Watcher ()

Published: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 08:00:00 UTC

I’m delighted to be taking part once again inΒ Azure Spring Clean, a community event focused on Azure management best practices


Getting started with Azure Bicep (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 UTC

Authoring Infrastructure as Code templates, like ARM, just got easier


Backing up all Azure Key Vault Secrets, Keys, and Certificates (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 UTC

Backing up Azure Key Vault objects isn't hard


Excluding failing dependencies from Application Insights logging (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 UTC

Implement an ITelemetryProcessor to ignore specific dependency failures in your Application Insights service - this help keep the data clean(er), reduces cost, and ultimately reduces false positives.


Securing Microsoft Teams (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 UTC

Recently, Microsoft Teams adoption in organizations world-wide has skyrocketed


Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ Review: Can you do real work with this device? (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00:00 UTC

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Querying data from multiple Application Insights instances (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 UTC

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Upgrade Application Insights to Workspace-based Resource Mode from Classic (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure App Service tips: Increase reliability with the Auto-Healing features (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure App Service tips: Enable the Health-Check capabilities (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Introducing the LogAnalytics.Client NuGet for .NET Core (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Purging container images from Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Passing AZ-500: Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00:00 UTC

The AZ-500 is a great certification if you work with security and compliance


Favorite Visual Studio Code Extensions for Azure (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Discover issues with Azure Functions and App Service using Application Insights (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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GitHub Actions for Security Code Analysis (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Use the Microsoft Application Inspector to analyze your source code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:00:00 UTC

Use the Microsoft Application Inspector to learn more about your code


Get notified of changes in Azure Key Vault by using Event Grid (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Website security scanning with GitHub Actions and OWASP ZAP (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Use Application Insights for Worker Service applications in .NET Core console apps, containers, and any non-HTTP apps (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Newsletter #3: Stay on top of the Azure Governance game (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Create a custom Azure Security Center recommendation with Azure Policy (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Programmatically create Azure Container Instances and connect a Managed Identity (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Installing Ghost for local development on Windows (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Programmatically create Azure Container Instances in an existing Virtual Network (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Use Azure App Service Diagnostics - Improve performance, best practices, security and more. (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Solving ASP.NET Core running on Azure App Service causing 500.30 ANCM In-Process Start Failure (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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I am giving away consulting advice for Azure (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Newsletter #2: I am giving away consulting advice for Azure (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Understanding Azure Policies with Visual Studio Code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Running .NET 5 on Azure App Services (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Installing .NET 5 using winget, the Windows Package Manager (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00:00 UTC

See how to use the Windows Package Manager, winget, to download and install .NET 5.


Configuring Publisher Verification in Azure Active Directory (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00:00 UTC

Learn what the publisher verification status is, and how to set it up in your organization


Using Azure Application Change Analysis to discover configuration changes in Azure services (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00:00 UTC

Have you ever wondered why a service or asset stopped working, or what could have caused a different behavior in your applications, although you didn't deploy any new code? I know I have


Installing and using the Windows Package Manager - winget (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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ASP.NET Core Blazor with SignalR breaks when used with Cloudflare's HTML minification (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 UTC

If you are building web applications with ASP.NET Core Blazor, make sure you do not remove the HTML comments


Newsletter (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 15 May 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Newsletter #1: Let's talk about code analysis (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 14 May 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Using the Azure Resource Graph to improve your Azure Governance game (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 UTC

Learn about some of my key scenarios for using the Azure Resource Graph to gain a better understanding of my Azure resources


Code analysis tools for Azure developers coding in .NET Core (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Thoughts on Bring Your Own Key, or BYOK, to Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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How Tokens and Scope Maps for Azure Container Registry introduces great repository-level access restrictions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Cybersecurity tips for Remote Workers - Get online, stay informed, stay secure! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 UTC

Here's a list of simple and efficient tips to stay more secure when Working From Home


How we planned and launched a Podcast - the technical story (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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A few tips for securing your remote workforce in a Microsoft cloud landscape (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Best Practices for building and designing Azure Functions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Re-use service instances by Implementing Dependency Injection in Azure Functions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Best Practices for security in Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 UTC

Best Practices for security in Azure Container Registries is a list of real-world experiences in strengthening your security posture.


Embrace a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for Azure (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 00:00:00 UTC

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Issues with "Cannot bind parameter 'log' to type ILogger." after upgrading Azure Functions to v3 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Use the new Azure SDKs with Managed Identities (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Fixing: Unable to locate the .NET Core SDK. Check that it is installed and that the version specified in global.json (if any) matches the installed version. (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Functions and secure Configuration with built-in integration to Azure Key Vault (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Automate Azure DevOps code security analysis with the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extensions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Use Azure Monitor to get Network Insights and Storage Insights (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Diagnosing and troubleshooting configuration and application errors in Azure App Services (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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We just launched an Azure Podcast (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Deleting Microsoft Sentinel but keep the ingested data (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00:00 UTC

In this post I'm sharing a tip about how you can remove the Azure Sentinel service, but keep your ingested data in Log Analytics so you can actually keep working with the data for reports and auditing reasons.


Using Azure Key Vault Secrets from your DevOps pipelines (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Log custom application security events in Azure Log Analytics which are ingested and used in Microsoft Sentinel (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Monitoring Office 365 tenants with Azure Sentinel (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Visualize your templates with the Azure ARM Template Viewer extension for VS Code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Who accessed my Azure Key Vault? (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Send health pings from your Azure Function applications to ensure Scheduled triggers work as expected (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 UTC

Sometimes the Scheduled trigger for Azure Functions does not fire, and we'll need to ensure we can monitor our systems accordingly to keep track of, and troubleshoot when this happens


Run Azure DevOps Unit Tests with the Azure Storage Emulator on Hosted build agents (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 UTC

Solved: How to run Unit Tests with Azure Storage Emulator on a Hosted Build Agent in Azure DevOps.


Use the Azure Portal Desktop App (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:00:00 UTC

Using the Azure Portal Desktop Application helps speed things up, as it's loading a lot faster than the web UI


Building scalable cloud systems with great performance using Azure Cache for Redis (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 00:00:00 UTC

In this post I'll introduce how to get started with Azure Cache for Redis, as well as some of my thoughts that could be worth digesting, including Security considerations, C# code, running Redis commands, API Management integration , retry policies for transient faults, and more.


Retrieve logs from Application Insights programmatically with .NET Core (C#) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Introduction to Azure App Configuration for Developers with C# .NET Core (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 07 May 2019 00:00:00 UTC

Azure App Configuration helps us centralize configuration and makes it a lot easier to manage distributed apps, web sites, Functions, containers, your microservices and more.


Search this site (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure DevOps (VSTS) - The current operating system is not capable of running this task, with "Azure File Copy" (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 UTC

If you've ever encountered the Azure DevOps/VSTS error "The current operating system is not capable of running this task" when trying to use for example the "Azure File Copy" task, then you can learn about a workaround using the Azure CLI build task here.


Developing using Azure Dev Spaces with Azure Kubernetes Services (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:00:00 UTC

Explore Azure Dev Spaces for AKS, to easily do development work, and hit F5 to update in Kubernetes in your dev space


Protecting your Azure Container Registry by denying all requests except from allowed IP addresses (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Building a .NET Core API, host it in Azure Container Instances from a private Container Registry and enable HTTPS using Application Gateway (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 UTC

Jussi Roine and Tobias Zimmergren journeys into the land of containers and demonstrates how to build a .NET Core API, hosted in Azure Container Instances and secured using HTTPS with Application Gateway


AKS: Quickly switching context between multiple clusters in Azure Kubernetes Services with cmder aliases (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00:00 UTC

Pro tip on how you can easily context-switch your clusters in your command line tools (Kubectl) for Azure Kubernetes Services, or any other Kubernetes deployment.


Azure Container Instances - Using Managed Identity to access Key Vault secrets with C# (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 UTC

Azure Container Instances with Azure Managed Identity, accessing data in a Key Vault without using any stored credentials - all done in C# with .NET Core


Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Secrets - Creating secret volumes and consume secrets using C# .NET Core (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:00:00 UTC

A full guide to how you can define a Secret volume mount to your Azure Container Instances, and how you can read these secrets using C# with .NET Core


Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Secrets - Using Secure Environment Variables (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Container Instances - C# .NET Core apps running as containers in your private Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 UTC

Guide to running .NET Core apps as containers in Azure Container Instances


How to: Mount an Azure Storage File Share to containers in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Processing data from SQLite hosted in an Azure File share, running in Azure Kubernetes Services (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 UTC

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Archive (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:00:00 UTC

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Enable Azure Monitor for you Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) cluster (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 00:00:00 UTC

Learn how to quickly configure monitoring for your Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) cluster with a few simple steps.


Building custom Data Collectors for Azure Log Analytics in C# (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 UTC

Learn how to send logs to Azure Log Analytics using C# with this simple helper wrapper.


Getting Started with BYOK in Azure Storage - Encrypt data at rest with your own encryption keys (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 UTC

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Secure your data in Azure Storage Accounts using RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:00:00 UTC

Security in the cloud is an essential part of any organization's long-term success


Secure your Azure Storage Accounts with restrictions based on public IP addresses (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 00:00:00 UTC

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Fixing issue related to Package is not compatible with netcoreapp2.1, supports netstandard2.0, when using Azure DevOps (VSTS) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:00:00 UTC

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What's new in SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Server 2019 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Tip: Installing and using the Azure CLI in Visual Studio Code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 UTC

Install and use the Azure CLI in Visual Studio Code


Azure Tip: Running the Azure CLI using Bash on Ubuntu, in Windows 10 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Tip: List of supported VM Sizes in Azure Container Services (AKS) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:00:00 UTC

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Monitoring your Kubernetes cluster running on Azure Container Service (AKS) using Log Analytics (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Container Services (AKS) - Getting Started with AKS and a private Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Container Services (AKS) - Upgrading your Kubernetes cluster (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 UTC

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A practical guide to building a Bot using Microsoft Bot Framework using C# and host it in Azure, and use it with Microsoft Teams, Skype and more (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 UTC

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Building and running a .NET Core application in a Docker Swarm in Azure, via Docker Cloud (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 UTC

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Tip: Docker Extension for VSCode (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 UTC

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Getting the instance id of a running Azure Function with ExecutionContext.InvocationId (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Reuse your C# Script (csx) code in multiple Azure Functions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Storage REST API: Authenticate with C# (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Running Unit Tests for your .NET Core projects in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Using appsettings.json instead of web.config in .NET Core projects (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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From zero to Hero: Building .NET Core (ASP.NET 5) applications to run inside Docker containers (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Microsoft Ignite 2016 - Summary of key announcements for Office 365, SharePoint and Azure from Day 1 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Building an ASP.NET 5 web application (.NET Core) and host it in the Heroku cloud (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Building a MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJs, Angular and Node.js) api app using TypeScript and host it with Heroku (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Resource Manager Template Visualisation with ARMVIZ (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Resource Manager tools for Visual Studio Code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Webinars: SharePoint Framework with Microsoft's Bill Baer and Vesa Juvonen (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Resource Manager - Part 8 - Export Template for Resources in a Resource Group with the REST API (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Resource Manager - Part 7 - Download an Azure Publishing Profile (xml) programmatically using REST (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 12 May 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Azure Resource Manager - Part 6 - Move Azure Resources from one Resource Group to another (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Analyze your SharePoint Framework code using SPCAF (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Introducing the SharePoint Framework - The new developer experience for SharePoint (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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The Future of SharePoint - it's here! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Part 5 - Tip: Get all available api-version alternatives for the ARM endpoints (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Part 4 - Tip: Azure Resource Explorer (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Collab365 Solutions Days: My session about SPCAF and SharePoint & Office 365 Transformation Guidance (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Part 3 - Build an application using C# which is using the Azure Resource Manager API's (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Part 1 - Creating a Service Principal for your AAD using PowerShell (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Introduction to blog series (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Part 2 - Getting started with the AzureRm PowerShell cmdlets (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Automating Software Installations with Boxstarter and Chocolatey (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Dev tip: Use Requestbin for easy analysis and debugging when developing your webhooks, connectors, API's and applications (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 UTC

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Creating an ASP.NET 5 site with Visual Studio Code - Part 3: Adding npm packages and automating tasks with Gulp (adding Office UI Fabric) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Creating an ASP.NET 5 site with Visual Studio Code - Part 1: Ensure pre-requisites (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Creating an ASP.NET 5 site with Visual Studio Code - Part 2: Create your Visual Studio Code project using Yeoman (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Office 365 Dev Tip - Getting Add-in (App) Information for Add-ins (Apps) on a specific Web (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Office 365 Dev Tip - Getting all Apps from your Tenant App Catalog using the Office 365 (CSOM) API (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Office 365 Dev Tip - Retrieve all tenant-level WebTemplates in your Office 365 tenant using CSOM (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Office 365 Dev Tip - Get Subsite Count per Site Collection with the Office 365 (CSOM) API (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Highlights from the recent announcements at BUILD 2015 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 04 May 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Microsoft Office 2016 reaches Public Preview for Home/Consumer and Enterprise (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 04 May 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference in May 2015–A free online conference (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Integrate SharePoint Code Analysis Framework (SPCAF) in your TeamCity build configurations–Improving your SharePoint and Office 365 ALM (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Office 365 API Sandbox - Learn how to use the API's with your own tenant data! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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Getting Started with building Azure WebJobs ("Timer Jobs") for your Office 365 sites (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 UTC

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The New Microsoft - Visual Studio Community, Open-Source .NET, Expanded Xamarin Partnerships and more (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Getting Started with Application Insights with Visual Studio 2015 for your ASP.NET Web Applications (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Extending Windows Azure Mobile Services queries to include relational data and optional metadata (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Reflections on being a worker in a mobile- and cloud first world (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Microsoft Ignite - the new consolidated conference! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Integrating the Google Analytics API in SharePoint (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Microsoft releases the Office 365 roadmap - and keeps it up to date (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Getting started with Office 365 development - Part 4 - From development to production: Publish your app to Windows Azure Web Sites (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 26 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Getting started with Office 365 development - Part 3 - Building a sample Web Forms application that integrates with Office 365 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 18 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Getting started with Office 365 development - Part 2 - Communicate with the Exchange REST API (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 11 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Getting started with Office 365 development - Part 1 - Setting up your environment (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 10 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Improvements for Microsoft OneDrive for Business (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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How do I know which version of Office 365 I should use? - The Office 365 Selector Tool comes to the rescue (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2013 just got put on hold - attention! (Update: Now available again) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Building Apps for SharePoint in Office 365 using Access 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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The future of Forms with SharePoint and Office 365 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 2013 released (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Visual Studio Online - Let's you leverage the cloud for your development projects (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Tools for your SharePoint 2013 development toolbox (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Tip: Getting the normal domain username from the claims username in SharePoint 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 UTC

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Automating SharePoint Development - Iterative Development Process (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00:00 UTC

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Preparing for upgrade to SharePoint 2013 - Iterative Upgrade Process (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:00:00 UTC

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FindBestContentDatabaseForSiteCreation() problem after upgrading to SharePoint 2013 - Solution (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:00:00 UTC

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Tip: Work Management Service Application keeps telling us "Last updated at 1/1/1901 12:00 AM" fixes (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2013: Extending the SuiteBarDelegateControl by adding the Title Breadcrumb control (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2013: Getting started with the new Geolocation field in SharePoint 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 UTC

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Upgrading your SharePoint 2010 Visual Studio projects and solutions to SharePoint 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2013: Duplicate field name was found after upgrading your SharePoint 2010 solutions to SharePoint 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2013 Tip - Change the "SharePoint" text in the top left corner. (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2013: Some new DelegateControl additions to the SharePoint 2013 master pages (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2013: Measuring performance on the JSLink property in SharePoint 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2013: Searching in SharePoint 2013 using the REST new API's (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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Fixing: The HTTP header ACCEPT is missing or its value is invalid - SharePoint 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2012 - Recap (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2013: Using the JSLink property to change the way your field or views are rendered in SharePoint 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 finally reached RTM! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint 2013: Business Connectivity Services - Talking to your external lists using REST (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePointDiscussions.com - Discussion Forum software for your SharePoint sites (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint 2013: Business Connectivity Services – Consuming OData in BCS using an App External Content Type (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint 2013: Business Connectivity Services (BCS) improvements - Introduction (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint 2013 - Microsoft announces the new versions of SharePoint and Office (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Customizing the forms for External Lists (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 by using Custom Field Controls and jQuery (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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Extending the LINQ to SharePoint context to allow additional fields and properties in your queries (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 UTC

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Conditionally Enable or Disable a Button/Command in your SharePoint 2010 custom Ribbon group (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 8 - Control that ViewState (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Developing for SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure - Part 1 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 UTC

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Office 365 - Part 1: What is Office 365 and how can my organization benefit from using it? (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 UTC

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Office 365 - Part 2: Getting started with Office 365 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Developing for performance part 7 - Crunching those scripts (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 6 - CSS Sprites (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 5 - Disposal patterns and tools (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 4 - Logging (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 3 - Caching in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 2 - SPMonitoredScope (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 1 - Developer Dashboard (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SEF 2010 - A recap (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Web Application settings (web.config) modifications in SharePoint 2010 via code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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Find error messages with a Correlation ID token in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Developing with the Word Automation Services in SharePoint Server 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Introduction to programmatically working with Taxonomies in SharePoint Server 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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CKS : Developer Tools – A tool for your toolbox (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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MCPD: SharePoint track (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Custom RSS provider for your Business Connectivity Services (BCS) connected External Lists (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Uploading files using the Client OM in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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Business Connectivity Services (BCS) problem with AuthenticationMode and RevertToSelf (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: How to create a PowerShell Snapin Cmdlet - Part 2 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: How to create a PowerShell Snapin - Part 1 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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Access denied by Business Data Connectivity - Solution (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 08 May 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: SharePoint Server 2010 - Creating a custom Document ID provider (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Validate Sandboxed Solutions using SPSolutionValidator (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Dynamically displaying messages to your users with the Notification and Status bar areas in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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Getting started with LINQ to SharePoint in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: LINQ to SharePoint - What CAML lies behind my query? (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) using the Client Object Model (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Getting started with Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: How To - Event Receivers and Custom Error Pages (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: How To - Relational lists in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: List Joins & SPQuery enchancements! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC

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SP 2010: Getting started with the Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen – Code samples (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint Books: Recommended Reading (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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TOZIT SharePoint Discussion Forum solution for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 released today! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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SPTraceView - Easy overview of the SharePoint logs (ULS logs) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint BDC Part 2: Creating your first BDC Web Part (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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Using the object model to access and change RSS settings on a SharePoint list (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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Tip: Convering your Virtual PC 2007 disks to Windows Virtual PC (on Windows 7) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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Debugging your code execution for anonymous users in SharePoint (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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Recover/fetch the Application Pool password (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint Server 2010 preliminary requirements (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007 Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.5 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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How to: Programmatically remove a Field (SPField) from a view (SPView) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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How to: Upload a file/document using the SharePoint Object Model (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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WSPBuilder - Walkthrough of the Visual Studio Add-in (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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Ten (10) Free SharePoint Themes - Visual Overview (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint Online - Customization - Part 2 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint Online – A first look (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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Backing up your local Subversion repositories using Live Mesh (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – 1.3 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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SPDisposeCheck tool finally released – get your code straight! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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Starting a SharePoint workflow from code (Event Receiver) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint development environment now running Windows 7 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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Custom list definitions with custom forms – changing master page (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UTC

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How To: SharePoint and Silverlight 2.0 – Part 1 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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How To: Custom Web Part Properties (ToolPart) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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Microsoft Office Systems 2007 – Service Pack 2 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 – CTP – Download now! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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CKS EBE – Comments Manager – Version 1.1.0.0 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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Web Part Caching – A simple approach (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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How to: Get up and running with .NET 3.5 in your SharePoint environment (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint Forum and SharePoint Forum Web Part (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint's hidden user-list - User Information List (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint Virtual Images from Microsoft (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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How To: Easily construct your CAML queries with CAML Query Builder (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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Introduction to SharePoint Queries (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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SPQuery returning all items (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint Forums WebPart : What's going on? (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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Forum Web Part for SharePoint (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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Tip: RequestAccessEnabled programatically using the SharePoint Object Model (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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MOSS 2007: Creating a custom AJAX UserControl that will query the SharePoint Search Query Object Model to perform searches (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint Cross List Queries in a custom UserControl (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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MOSS 2007: Using AJAX UserControls in SharePoint (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) - Part 3 - Customize using SharePoint Designer 2007 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:00:00 UTC

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MOSS 2007: Configure Document Conversion for your server (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UTC

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MOSS 2007: Customizing the Search Results Page (XSLT) - Part 2 - Add highlighting (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UTC

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MOSS 2007: Connect a custom Search Page to a custom Search Scope (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:00:00 UTC

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MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 UTC

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Simple Excel Services - Step by step, publishing a spreadsheet to SharePoint 2007 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:00:00 UTC

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Zimmergren VSTO Tip #1: Extend the Ribbon-menu in Word 2007 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:00 UTC

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Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #3: Publishing and displaying an InfoPath form in the browser (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:00:00 UTC

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Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #2: Retrieve stuff by code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 UTC

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Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #1: Anonymous Access (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 UTC

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SharePoint 2007 - Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Solutions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 UTC

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WSS v3.0: Import an ASP.NET Web Part to your Windows SharePoint Services Site (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 UTC

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MOSS 2007: Search and Indexing (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 UTC

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What's new in WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 UTC

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Creating a custom Master Page for your MOSS 2007 portals and sites (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 UTC

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Welcome to my new blog (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 UTC

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