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


File-Level Archiving in Microsoft 365 Archive (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:06:28 UTC

Microsoft has introduced file-level archiving in SharePoint Online, which lets us archive files to a lower-cost storage tier while keeping sites active


Copilot Cowork Walkthrough (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:01:28 UTC

Walkthrough of the awesome Copilot Cowork! Note some data integrations are coming soon at time of recording. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:26 - Copilot agents 01:18 - Cowork 01:44 - What is Cowork 03:36 - Grounded data 05:50 - Cloud agent 07:50 - Demo time 10:30 - Adding instructions while running 17:03 - Using Cowork 17:34 - Summary 18:04 - Close ▬▬▬▬▬▬ K E Y L I N K S 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Whiteboard: 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/raw/master/Whiteboards/CopilotCowork.png ► M365 Subprocessor detail: 🔗 https://learn.microsoft.com/copilot/microsoft-365/connect-to-ai-subprocessor ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Want to learn more? 🚀 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📖 Recommended Learning Path for Azure 🔗 https://learn.onboardtoazure.com 🥇 Certification Content Repository 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials 📅 Weekly Azure Update 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks ☁ Azure Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY ⚙ DevOps Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq 💻 PowerShell Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8 🎓 Certification Cram Videos 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA 🧠 Mentoring Content 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ 🔗 https://savilltech.com/faq 👕 Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store 🔗 https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-spring.com/ 👂 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 ✅ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIn7ox7j7bH_OFj7tYouOQ?sub_confirmation=1 #microsoft #Copilot #CopilotCowork #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #onboardtoazure


Copilot Cowork #microsoft365copilot (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:57:14 UTC

Really quick overview on Copilot Cowork


Work IQ Overview (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:49:16 UTC

Overview of what Work IQ is! ▬▬▬▬▬▬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - M365 data 02:15 - Semantic index 03:33 - Need for context 04:31 - Data plane 05:53 - Memory and activity 10:53 - Business understanding 11:49 - Skills and tools 16:30 - Experiences and API 18:48 - Multi-model 19:50 - Full agentic context 20:51 - Summary and other IQs 21:22 - Close ▬▬▬▬▬▬ K E Y L I N K S 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Whiteboard: 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/raw/master/Whiteboards/WorkIQ.png ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Want to learn more? 🚀 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📖 Recommended Learning Path for Azure 🔗 https://learn.onboardtoazure.com 🥇 Certification Content Repository 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials 📅 Weekly Azure Update 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks ☁ Azure Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY ⚙ DevOps Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq 💻 PowerShell Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8 🎓 Certification Cram Videos 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA 🧠 Mentoring Content 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ 🔗 https://savilltech.com/faq 👕 Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store 🔗 https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-spring.com/ 👂 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 ✅ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIn7ox7j7bH_OFj7tYouOQ?sub_confirmation=1 #microsoft #Copilot #workiq #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #onboardtoazure


Work IQ Quick Overview #microsoft #microsoft365 #copilot (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:48:29 UTC

Quick overview of Work IQ


How to Configure Cross-Tenant Group Synchronization in Microsoft Entra ID (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:40:22 UTC

Microsoft has introduced cross-tenant group synchronization in Microsoft Entra ID, enabling organizations to automatically provision and manage groups across tenants


Entra 🆔 News #142 → This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:15:56 UTC

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


Finding Every MFA Gap: Testing 250 Million Conditional Access Combinations in Under 20 Minutes (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:45:12 UTC

The Offline CA Engine That Runs 24/7 on Autopilot


Azure Update 27th March 2026 (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:28:39 UTC

Lots of updates this week! 🔎 Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Microsoft Zero Trust Workshop Expands with a Dedicated AI Pillar (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:26:10 UTC

As AI adoption grows, so do the risks associated with it


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


AI for nuclear energy: Powering an intelligent, resilient future (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:00:00 UTC

To break the infrastructure bottleneck and shift the industry from ambition to delivery, Microsoft is announcing an AI for nuclear collaboration with NVIDIA, to provide end-to-end tools that streamline permitting, accelerate design, and optimize operations across the industry. The post AI for nuclear energy: Powering an intelligent, resilient future appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


How to Automate Inactive Guest User Removal in Microsoft 365 Using Power Automate (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:31:39 UTC

Stale guest accounts in Microsoft 365 after project or work completion may expose sensitive data if left unmanaged


Strengthening Resilience with Microsoft Sentinel and Security Copilot: Commvault Expands Microsoft Security Integration (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:22:39 UTC

In today’s threat landscape, security teams need more than fast detection—they need confidence in recovery


Overview of Entra Backup and Recovery (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:05:16 UTC

Quick walkthrough of Entra Backup and Restore and how it complements soft delete and protected actions. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:17 - Entra daily snapshot 01:45 - Restoring state 02:50 - Difference report 04:34 - Recovering 05:13 - Soft delete 07:08 - Protected actions 09:36 - Complete solution 10:10 - Close ▬▬▬▬▬▬ K E Y L I N K S 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Whiteboard: 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/raw/master/Whiteboards/EntraBackupRestore.png ► Neat version: 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/raw/master/Images/entrabrneat.png ► Backup and Restore Docs: 🔗 https://learn.microsoft.com/entra/backup/overview ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Want to learn more? 🚀 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📖 Recommended Learning Path for Azure 🔗 https://learn.onboardtoazure.com 🥇 Certification Content Repository 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials 📅 Weekly Azure Update 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks ☁ Azure Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY ⚙ DevOps Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq 💻 PowerShell Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8 🎓 Certification Cram Videos 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA 🧠 Mentoring Content 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ 🔗 https://savilltech.com/faq 👕 Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store 🔗 https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-spring.com/ 👂 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 ✅ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIn7ox7j7bH_OFj7tYouOQ?sub_confirmation=1 #microsoft #entraid #azuread #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #onboardtoazure


Entra Backup and Restore Quick Overview (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:01:24 UTC

A look at the new snapshot capability of Entra Backup and Restore.


Microsoft Defender’s New Password Protection Experience (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:58:53 UTC

Last Updated on March 24, 2026 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction Imagine this: a compromised password from a… The post Microsoft Defender’s New Password Protection Experience first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


Introducing the Active Directory Domain Page in Microsoft Defender (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:22:58 UTC

Last Updated on March 24, 2026 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction Managing and securing your on-premises Active Directory… The post Introducing the Active Directory Domain Page in Microsoft Defender first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


400K Ask Me Anything YouTube Live Stream (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:15:47 UTC

An AMA to celebrate hitting 400,000 subscribers


Creating Diagrams with an Excalidraw Agent Skill and Excalidraw MCP (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:31:18 UTC

Learn how an Excalidraw Agent Skill powered by Excalidraw MCP in GitHub Copilot can generate Cloud, Terraform, and workflow diagrams from natural language prompts.


Restore Tenant Objects with Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:28:39 UTC

Microsoft has introduced a long-awaited undo capability for tenant object configurations using Backup and Recovery in Entra ID


Azure Hybrid Networking for Sovereign Cloud (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:59:04 UTC

I’m happy to share a new video where I sit down with Cynthia Treger (EMEA GBB for Networking at Microsoft) to discuss Azure Hybrid Networking for Sovereign Cloud scenarios


Generative AI Agent Governance (msandbu.org)

Published: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:18:55 UTC

While most are experimenting with Generative AI in many different flavors such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Nemo Claw, Github Copilot, Cursor and the list goes on and on


What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:05:00 UTC

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, we're making announcements that reflect the goal of bringing the operational maturity of Kubernetes to today's workloads and demands. The post What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


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


Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance (Preview) (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:13:27 UTC

Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance lets organizations manage and secure multiple Microsoft tenants from a single place


Picking the right Agent Builder solution (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:56:00 UTC

How to pick between Agent Builder, Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry to build your agent. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:17 - Quick way to decide 02:02 - Organizational maturity progression 05:19 - Building agents 05:39 - Agent Builder, Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry 06:39 - Code complexity 10:23 - Model selection 13:01 - Deployment target 14:27 - Lifecycle management 16:09 - Observability 17:43 - Evaluations 21:13 - Safety 22:39 - Tools and knowledge 24:04 - Multi-agent 25:29 - Memory 27:11 - Audience 27:42 - Cost control 29:18 - Summary, box meals, restaurants and really good kitchens 31:09 - Close ▬▬▬▬▬▬ K E Y L I N K S 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Whiteboard: 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/raw/master/Whiteboards/WhichAgentBuilder.png ► Neat table version: 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/raw/master/Images/WhichAgentTable.png ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Want to learn more? 🚀 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📖 Recommended Learning Path for Azure 🔗 https://learn.onboardtoazure.com 🥇 Certification Content Repository 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials 📅 Weekly Azure Update 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks ☁ Azure Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY ⚙ DevOps Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq 💻 PowerShell Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8 🎓 Certification Cram Videos 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA 🧠 Mentoring Content 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ 🔗 https://savilltech.com/faq 👕 Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store 🔗 https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-spring.com/ 👂 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 ✅ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIn7ox7j7bH_OFj7tYouOQ?sub_confirmation=1 #microsoft #Copilot #copilotstudio #microsoftfoundry #AI #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #onboardtoazure


Which Agent Builder #AI #copilotstudio #microsoftfoundry (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:54:39 UTC

Overview of thinking about which Agent builder solution to use.


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


Entra 🆔 News #141 → This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:08:10 UTC

Learn about new Microsoft Entra features including Backup and Recovery, Tenant Governance and cross tenant group sync.


From FIM/MIM to Cloud Sync: Complete Identity Journey with Australia’s Top Identity MVP Darren “Doc” Robinson (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:14:31 UTC

Legacy Identity to Cloud with Entra ID


The Curious Case of the “Release” Button bug in Defender for Office Quarantine (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:39:47 UTC

Last Updated on March 20, 2026 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction Hi all, the #BugHunter here again! 👋… The post The Curious Case of the “Release” Button bug in Defender for Office Quarantine first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


Azure Update 20th March 2026 (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:05:24 UTC

Lots of updates this week! 🔎 Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Use Entra Tenant Governance for Native Multi-Tenant Drift Detection (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:23:15 UTC

Discover hidden tenants and automate native drift detection across your ecosystem using Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance. The post Use Entra Tenant Governance for Native Multi-Tenant Drift Detection appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


Built‑In CIS Benchmarks on Microsoft Azure (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:34:40 UTC

Security and compliance are often well‑defined on paper—but applying them consistently across real‑world environments is where things get challenging, especially in hybrid and regulated scenarios


Azure Pricing Skill for GitHub Copilot Using Azure MCP (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:30:00 UTC

How I built the azure-pricing skill for GitHub Copilot, using Azure MCP and the Azure Retail Prices API to bring live Azure pricing into architecture and engineering workflows.


Understanding Azure’s Change to Default Outbound Access (Ciraltos)

Published: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:13:50 UTC

Microsoft is preparing a significant update that affects how virtual machines in Azure reach the internet


Group Policy Management in Active Directory (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:30:00 UTC

Group Policy Management in Active Directory enables admins to centrally control user and computer configurations across the domain


Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:50:00 UTC

Built on a consistent Microsoft SQL foundation from on premises to the cloud, Azure SQL brings AI capabilities directly into your database experience. The post Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:45:00 UTC

We're bring attendees together to share real experiences and solve challenges side-by-side


How to Prevent Calendar Phishing Attacks in Microsoft 365 (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:31:42 UTC

Calendar phishing attacks in Microsoft 365 exploit trusted meeting invites to bypass traditional email defenses, often appearing directly in users’ calendars without interaction


Getting Started with GitHub Copilot CLI and Work IQ (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:57:04 UTC

Getting going with GitHub Copilot CLI and Work IQ step-by-step. Signing up for GitHub - https://github.com/signup Install PowerShell 7 (these are all case sensitive) winget install -e --id Microsoft.PowerShell Install Microsoft Terminal winget install -e --id Microsoft.WindowsTerminal Install node.js winget install -e --id OpenJS.NodeJS Install GitHub Copilot CLI winget install -e --id GitHub.Copilot Install Work IQ plug-in within the GitHub Copilot CLI /plugin install workiq@copilot-plugins Accept the EULA (again in GitHub Copilot CLI) workiq accept-eula ▬▬▬▬▬▬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:11 - Why CLIs 01:16 - GitHub Copilot CLI 02:29 - Work IQ 05:19 - Organization onboarding 06:22 - Things I need (accounts) 08:03 - Things to install on my machine 09:05 - Core components 11:20 - Non Windows installation 11:48 - Using Terminal 13:40 - Launching the GitHub Copilot CLI 14:18 - Logging into GitHub 15:41 - My first CLI agentic use 16:06 - Adding Work IQ plug-in 17:23 - Accepting the EULA 18:01 - New Work IQ skill 18:52 - Using Work IQ 19:22 - Authenticating to M365 20:31 - Other types of interaction 23:22 - Using other inferencing models 23:49 - Closing and resuming 24:21 - Non-interactive use ▬▬▬▬▬▬ K E Y L I N K S 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► GitHub Copilot CLI install: 🔗 https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/cli-getting-started ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Want to learn more? 🚀 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📖 Recommended Learning Path for Azure 🔗 https://learn.onboardtoazure.com 🥇 Certification Content Repository 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials 📅 Weekly Azure Update 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks ☁ Azure Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY ⚙ DevOps Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq 💻 PowerShell Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8 🎓 Certification Cram Videos 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA 🧠 Mentoring Content 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ 🔗 https://savilltech.com/faq 👕 Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store 🔗 https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-spring.com/ 👂 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 ✅ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIn7ox7j7bH_OFj7tYouOQ?sub_confirmation=1 #microsoft #Copilot #m365copilot #github #ai #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #onboardtoazure


Microsoft updates the Entra license usage insights blade (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:52:49 UTC

New Entra license insights are here! See how Microsoft is finally tackling the "black box" of licensing and compliance. The post Microsoft updates the Entra license usage insights blade appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


Automate Document Generation from Forms in SharePoint Online (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:29:55 UTC

Structured document generation in SharePoint Online is an AI-powered feature that lets you generate documents instantly by turning Word templates into forms


How to Evaluate, Test, and Demo Azure Local (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:12:58 UTC

Azure Local enables customers to run Azure services on customer‑owned infrastructure, bringing Azure’s consistent operations, security, and management model to on‑premises, edge, and sovereign environments


Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC: New solutions for Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI infrastructure and Physical AI (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:21:14 UTC

Microsoft combines accelerated computing with cloud scale engineering to bring advanced AI capabilities to our customers


Microsoft Defender – Nation State Notifications (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:28:46 UTC

Last Updated on March 16, 2026 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction To safeguarding customers against evolving cybersecurity threats… The post Microsoft Defender – Nation State Notifications first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


From legacy to leadership: How PostgreSQL on Azure powers enterprise agility and innovation (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:00:00 UTC

Our mission is to make PostgreSQL the most performant, scalable, and enterprise-ready open database platform available


Speaking at Azure User Group Iceland: Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud with Azure Local (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:42:50 UTC

I’m excited to share that I’ll be speaking at the Azure User Group Iceland on March 19, and I’d love to see you there! In this session, I’ll be diving into a topic that’s becoming increasingly important for many organizations around the world: Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud with Azure Local As EMEA Global Black Belt … The post Speaking at Azure User Group Iceland: Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud with Azure Local appeared first on Thomas Maurer.


AI for Anyone - The 30-Minute Beginner’s Guide (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:33:50 UTC

Overview of generative AI for everyone! Try AI at https://copilot.microsoft.com/. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:25 - Human brains 04:27 - Neural networks 06:34 - Training and parameters 09:57 - Using a generative model 11:54 - Orchestrators and assistants 14:22 - Tokens 16:49 - Prompting AI 18:59 - Memory and state 21:20 - Adding knowledge with RAG 28:01 - Hallucinations 28:55 - Be careful of what is shared with public AI 30:26 - Prompt engineering 32:17 - Ways to interact 33:07 - How to think of AI today 34:48 - Close ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Want to learn more? 🚀 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📖 Recommended Learning Path for Azure 🔗 https://learn.onboardtoazure.com 🥇 Certification Content Repository 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials 📅 Weekly Azure Update 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks ☁ Azure Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY ⚙ DevOps Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq 💻 PowerShell Master Class 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8 🎓 Certification Cram Videos 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA 🧠 Mentoring Content 🔗 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ 🔗 https://savilltech.com/faq 👕 Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store 🔗 https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-spring.com/ 👂 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 ✅ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIn7ox7j7bH_OFj7tYouOQ?sub_confirmation=1 #ai #johnsavillstechnicaltraining #onboardtoazure


Microsoft Quietly Closes Another Loophole for Tenant Domain Enumeration (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:48:07 UTC

Microsoft blocks unauthenticated Entra ID domain enumeration via the legacy ACS metadata endpoint to improve security. The post Microsoft Quietly Closes Another Loophole for Tenant Domain Enumeration appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


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


Entra 🆔 News #140 → This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:26:47 UTC

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


Microsoft Teams Now Flags External AI Bots Joining Your Meetings (AdminDroid Blog)

Published: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:27:01 UTC

Microsoft Teams will soon detect and label third-party AI meeting assistant bots attempting to join meetings


How to Migrate from Legacy VPNs to Entra Private Access (Real Strategies from a Veteran) (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:45:29 UTC

VPN → Entra


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


Azure Update 13th March 2026 (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:18:27 UTC

Happy Friday the 13th! 🔎 Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Microsoft Entra to Receive Native Backup Capabilities (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:42:35 UTC

The introduction of new Entra Backup Admin roles indicates new native Entra Backup capabilities are on the horizon. The post Microsoft Entra to Receive Native Backup Capabilities appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


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


How to Restrict Multi-Tenant Entra Apps to Specific Tenants (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:59:58 UTC

Learn how to restrict which tenants can consent to your multi-tenant enterprise applications in Microsoft Entra. The post How to Restrict Multi-Tenant Entra Apps to Specific Tenants appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


Enabling Entra ID Login Through Azure Bastion for Secure VM Access (Ciraltos)

Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:05:15 UTC

Managing Windows virtual machines using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and public IP addresses over the internet poses a significant security risk


AWS Diagram Agent Skill with Draw.io MCP (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:07:39 UTC

Learn how to generate AWS architecture diagrams automatically using Draw.io MCP and GitHub Copilot Agent Skills


Modernizing regulated industries with cloud and agentic AI (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:00:00 UTC

Discover how cloud modernization and agentic AI are accelerating migration across healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing. The post Modernizing regulated industries with cloud and agentic AI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


Azure Local LENS Workbook: Fleet‑Level Insights at a Glance (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:22:12 UTC

As Azure Local environments scale, the operational conversation inevitably changes


Many agents, one team: Scaling modernization on Azure (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:00:00 UTC

We’re announcing the first agentic end-to-end modernization solution that brings IT and developers into a single, connected workflow. The post Many agents, one team: Scaling modernization on Azure appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.


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 Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry: Bringing high performance, low latency open model inference to Azure (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:00:00 UTC

We’re announcing the public preview of Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry, bringing high‑performance open model inference into Azure


New Microsoft Entra Passkeys for Windows Hello Enter Public Preview (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:49:18 UTC

Microsoft Entra passkeys on Windows enter public preview


Introducing HVTools: Your new tool for Hyper-V/Clusters and Azure Local overview (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:42:25 UTC

Last Updated on March 10, 2026 by Michael Morten Sonne I’m excited to announce HVTools – a powerful, free Windows… The post Introducing HVTools: Your new tool for Hyper-V/Clusters and Azure Local overview first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


Automating Terraform provider upgrades with GitHub Agentic Workflows (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:55:21 UTC

Terraform provider upgrades often turn into a manual research exercise


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


Microsoft releases new AI self service support experience in Entra (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:50:02 UTC

Troubleshoot Entra sign-in and MFA issues faster with the new AI Self-Service Support agent


Unpacking your top questions on agentic AI: The Shift podcast (Microsoft Azure Blog)

Published: Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:11:08 UTC

Today we're introducing "The Shift" podcast, an evolution of "Leading the Shift," to share more dialogue


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 »


How to use Generative AI as part of your Security Operations? – Agentic SOC (msandbu.org)

Published: Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:30:49 UTC

While there are many articles that explore how a SOC or people working within IT security should start using Generative AI or virtual agents as part of their role, few actually explain how do to this in practice


Entra 🆔 News #139 → This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:53:21 UTC

Learn about External auth methods going GA, SharePoint OTP retirement and more!


Pulling Off the Perfect Sprint Review Heist with Copilot, Squad and Oceans Eleven (Azure Greg)

Published: Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:26:12 UTC

When you’re part of an agile team, sometimes it feels like you’re orchestrating a heist


Passkeys, Conditional Access, Hard-match updates, GSA BYOD: What Entra Admins Need To Know (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:38:51 UTC

Top 5 February Microsoft Entra Updates & Announcements Full Deep Dive!


What is the Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance? (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:54:40 UTC

Some weeks ago, Microsoft released documentation about the Virtual Network Routing Appliance (VNRA) without a lot of context, what generated a healthy confusion in the Azure Networking practitioner community


Azure Update 6th March 2026 (John Savill's Technical Training)

Published: Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:43:32 UTC

Quick update and lots of AI. 🔎 Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel


Azure Diagram Agent Skill with Draw.io MCP (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:44:45 UTC

Learn how to generate Azure architecture diagrams automatically using Draw.io MCP and GitHub Copilot Agent Skills


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


Automating Windows 11 Hyper-V Deployments with PowerShell (Ciraltos)

Published: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:37:22 UTC

Building and maintaining a virtual lab can be time consuming, especially when each virtual machine needs manual configuration after first boot


Announcing the Public Release of the Sovereign Cloud MicroHack (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:43:35 UTC

I’m excited to share that we’ve just completed the Train the Trainer session for the Sovereign Cloud MicroHack—and with that, we’ve officially shipped the public release 🎉 This milestone marks an important step in bringing Microsoft Sovereign Cloud concepts closer to our technical audience through hands-on, practical experience


Defender for Endpoint – New feature is out: Live response file library! (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:48:00 UTC

Last Updated on March 2, 2026 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction Like always, it’s great to try new… The post Defender for Endpoint – New feature is out: Live response file library! first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


How I built an app to manage Azure using AI (Azure Greg)

Published: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:47:50 UTC

This article is my entry into this year’s Azure Spring Clean 2026 event


Draw.io MCP for Diagram Generation: Why It’s Worth Using (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:39:47 UTC

I started using Draw.io MCP to generate diagrams from structured input and keep them tied to code and infrastructure


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 — While that is a mantra I follow myself, collaboration needs to be done securely


Entra 🆔 News #138 → This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:28:13 UTC

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


We Gave Away Our Microsoft Entra Masterclass Labs → Full Governance, Privileged Access & Agent ID Labs Walkthrough (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:41:05 UTC

Entra.Chat | 🇩🇰 Experts Live Denmark Edition


Microsoft Entra: One Person One License, Now What? (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:53:54 UTC

Continued confusion for Microsoft Entra's One Person One License philosophy still leaves open questions for maintaining compliance. The post Microsoft Entra: One Person One License, Now What? appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


Microsoft 365 Local and Azure Local Disconnected Released – But does it solve anything? (msandbu.org)

Published: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:07:39 UTC

Yesterday Microsoft published a blogpost stating that Microsoft 365 Local and Azure Local Disconnected are now generally available –> https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/02/24/microsoft-sovereign-cloud-adds-governance-productivity-and-support-for-large-ai-models-securely-running-even-when-completely-disconnected/ Both of these new features allow you to run both in an Airgapped or completely offline scenario, which ensures that you have no requirement to connect these services to the cloud


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


Finding the passion for writing again (msandbu.org)

Published: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:04:04 UTC

You know I’ve been writing on this blog (and former iterations of it) for the last 14 years… and while the number of visitors I get on this site has dwindled significantly over the last 4 years the same can be said for my passion for writing… In between these last 14 years I have […] The post Finding the passion for writing again appeared first on msandbu.org.


Connecting Microsoft Fabric to on-premises databases with Private Link (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:51:43 UTC

Azure Networking is already a complex enough topic, and if you add to the mix the moving parts of data analytics services the results are always interesting, to say the least


Why You Should Use GitHub Agentic Workflows (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:40:57 UTC

In my a previous blog post, I shared my early experience getting started with GitHub Agentic Workflows


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


I Used AI to Build a Full Golf Scoring Web App – Here’s What Happened. (Azure Greg)

Published: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:55:07 UTC

I’m a golfer who wanted a better way to track my rounds


Entra 🆔 News #137 → This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:32:35 UTC

Learn about Securing Entra ID Administration: Tier 0, AI with Zero Trust Security and more!


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


Creating a Windows 11 Image That Bypasses OOBE in Hyper-V (Ciraltos)

Published: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:43:27 UTC

Building a reusable Windows 11 image can save significant time when deploying new virtual machines


They migrated 40,000 devices to Entra Join in 9 months (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:47:07 UTC

Why Haven’t You?


How I Used GitHub Copilot CLI to Build an Azure Governance Web App: From Zero to Maturity Score in One Weekend (Azure Greg)

Published: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:09:57 UTC

If you told me a year ago that I’d build a fully functioning Azure cost management and governance web application in a single weekend, without leaving my terminal I’d have laughed


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


Microsoft Introduces Entra Hybrid Join using Entra Kerberos (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:32:43 UTC

Microsoft has introduce a new hybrid join for Windows devices using Entra Kerberos for instant device registration in Microsoft Entra. The post Microsoft Introduces Entra Hybrid Join using Entra Kerberos appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


Building Better Azure Terraform Modules with GitHub Copilot Agents and Skills (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:52:28 UTC

If you’ve ever tried to put together a “simple” Terraform module for Azure, you’ll know it rarely stays simple


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 (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:06:59 UTC

Last Updated on February 15, 2026 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction This blog post is related to a… The post Microsoft Artifact Signing Region Requirement Errors: Root Cause and Fix first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


Entra 🆔 News #136 → This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:56:24 UTC

Alex Simons has left the building 🫡


Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance — A Native Solution for Hub-and-Spoke Routing (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:00:00 UTC

A few months back, a customer called me with a familiar frustration


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


Shipping Features Faster with Copilot CLI (Azure Greg)

Published: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:40:23 UTC

Ship faster As developers, we’re always looking for ways to ship faster without sacrificing quality


Microsoft Is Auto-Enabling Passkeys in March 2026 (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:00:12 UTC

Here’s What You Need to Know


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


Sovereign Landing Zones for Microsoft Azure (SLZ) – Explained (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:07:06 UTC

As organizations adopt Azure at scale, sovereignty and regulatory compliance often become first‑class architectural requirements


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


Running GitHub Copilot SDK Inside GitHub Actions (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:00:00 UTC

Run GitHub Copilot SDK in GitHub Actions to automate tasks in your CI/CD pipeline


Deploy VMs on Azure Local with Portal, CLI & Bicep (IaC) (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:12:10 UTC

If you’re getting started with Azure Local and want a clear, practical path to creating and managing virtual machines (VMs) on‑premises with a cloud‑native experience, this walkthrough is for you


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


How to Find and Remove Application Owners from Disabled Applications (Our Cloud Network)

Published: Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:07:03 UTC

Learn how to find application owners on applications which have been disabled and remove them to mitigate any risks. The post How to Find and Remove Application Owners from Disabled Applications appeared first on Our Cloud Network.


Entra 🆔 News #135 → This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:07:03 UTC

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


Automating Governance: The New Standard for Microsoft 365 Tenant Snapshots and Remediation (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:49:29 UTC

How Microsoft Is Solving Tenant Drift, Misconfigurations & Admin Chaos → Microsoft Finally Built an Official M365DSC! (Introducing TCM)


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 Private DNS"


Boost Azure Networking Performance and Resilience with the Standard V2 NAT Gateway (Ciraltos)

Published: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:15:34 UTC

Introduction to the Standard V2 NAT Gateway Azure networking continues to evolve, and one of the most recent developments is the release of the Standard V2 NAT Gateway


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.


Entra 🆔 News #134 → This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:28:58 UTC

Learn about unified tenant configuration management, CA policy changes and more...


Mastering Microsoft Entra ID: Real-World Passkey Deployment Tips (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:18:51 UTC

Passkey Rollout Secrets + nOAuth, Silver SAML & ConsentFix


Join us at the Hybrid Identity Protection Conference Europe 2026 (DirTeam.com)

Published: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:53:56 UTC

Following the Hybrid Identity Protection Conference in Charleston, South Carolina in November last year, I will be presenting an updated session on Enterprise Applications and Application Registrations in Microsoft Entra on the very first European Hybrid Identity Protection Conference… and that's not all: This time, Raymond Comvalius is joining me on stage to deliver our … Continue reading "Join us at the Hybrid Identity Protection Conference Europe 2026" The post Join us at the Hybrid Identity Protection Conference Europe 2026 appeared first on DirTeam.com.


The Future of IaC: How AI Is Changing the Way We Build (Thomas Thornton Blog)

Published: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:30:00 UTC

The future of Infrastructure as Code isn’t about writing more Terraform


Visual Studio Enterprise Partner Benefits – a Heads-Up! (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:49:31 UTC

Last Updated on January 29, 2026 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction I just want to share some news… The post Visual Studio Enterprise Partner Benefits – a Heads-Up! first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


Understanding AVD Networking Requirements and How to Troubleshoot Connectivity Issues (Ciraltos)

Published: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:03:11 UTC

Azure Virtual Desktop has become a key service for organizations that want secure, scalable remote access to desktops and applications


Entra 🆔 News #133→ This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:17:44 UTC

Learn and prepare for auto-enabling passkey profiles, retiring of Approved Client App control in CA and more...


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


Join the IT Bro's for Workplace Ninja Connect 2026 (DirTeam.com)

Published: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:15:08 UTC

Raymond and I have been invited as speakers for the upcoming Connect event, organized by the Workplace Ninja's User Group the Netherlands, on February 4th, 2026, at the Van der Valk Hotel in Gorinchem, the Netherlands


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 »


Watch our discussion on the 'Sentinels Talk Show' and learn essential Entra ID security (DirTeam.com)

Published: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:25:10 UTC

A few weeks ago, Raymond Comvalius and I joined Erdal Ozkaya on the Sentinels Talk Show to talk about the Entra ID Security


Entra 🆔 News #132 → This week in Microsoft Entra (Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra)

Published: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:38:40 UTC

Learn about GA of Source of Authority conversion of synced on-prem AD users to cloud users and more!


A new Community tool is comming to Hyper-V – stay turned! (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:58:31 UTC

Last Updated on January 17, 2026 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction The Background As a Microsoft MVP and… The post A new Community tool is comming to Hyper-V – stay turned! first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


Is it possible to succeed with a Hybrid Cloud and proper data sovereignty? (msandbu.org)

Published: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:52:41 UTC

To be honest I did not think that I would start 2026 with so many discussions on Cloud Exit / Hybrid Strategy and sovereignty, but it seems with all that is doing on in the world that more and more organisations are starting to consider their options/alternatives when it comes to IT-services


Which Azure network design is cheaper? (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:34:42 UTC

If you have been reading some of my blog posts, you probably know that I have been working on Azure networking for a while


How to Set Up FIDO2 Security Keys for Simple Windows 365 Link Authentication (Ciraltos)

Published: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:39:56 UTC

Passwords have long served as the standard for authentication, yet they present several challenges


Optimizing Developer Experience with AI and MCP (msandbu.org)

Published: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:48:30 UTC

Recently I got tasked with looking into how one can build the an AI-infused developer experience


The video of managing Active Directory like it's 2003 is now vailable on demand (DirTeam.com)

Published: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:51:50 UTC

On October 15th, 2025, Darryl Baker, senior solutions architect at Netwrix, and I presented a webinar titled 'Managing Active Directory Like It’s 2003 Leaves You Exposed in 2025' with the IT GRC Forum


Configure Windows 365 Link Devices with Intune for Time Zone and Screen Timeout (Ciraltos)

Published: Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:07:34 UTC

Managing Windows 365 Link devices is essential for delivering a smooth Cloud PC experience


Azure Arc: How to migrate data from Amazon S3 buckets to Azure Blob Storage with Azure Storage Mover (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:08:26 UTC

In this blog post, you will learn how to use Azure Arc in combination with Azure Storage Mover to migrateContinue Reading


Azure Cost Estimation: Your Strategic Guide to Cloud Pricing (Thomas Maurer)

Published: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:23:00 UTC

Managing and estimating cloud costs can feel like trying to navigate a storm without a compass—especially when you’re dealing with the scale and flexibility of Microsoft Azure


What's New in Entra ID for December 2025 (DirTeam.com)

Published: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:23:59 UTC

Entra ID, 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


Azure Arc: Creating or updating an AWS Multicloud connector for S3 bucket to Azure Storage account migrations (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:10:37 UTC

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to create or update an Azure Arc AWS multicloud connector to enable S3Continue Reading


Reflecting on the year 2025: How It Started and What’s Next 🚀 (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:21:54 UTC

Last Updated on January 2, 2026 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction As 2025 is now over, I’ve been reflecting on… The post Reflecting on the year 2025: How It Started and What’s Next 🚀 first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


Enterprise Certificate Pinning might hurt your Hybrid Identity security efforts this January (MC1193408) (DirTeam.com)

Published: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:51:48 UTC

While being touted as one of the more robust ways to prevent Adversary in the Middle (AitM) attacks against TLS-protected resources, for some admins, the Enterprise Certificate Pinning feature in Windows may lock out their entire organization


Deploying AI Applications to Azure Web Apps: A Practical Architecture Guide (Azure Greg)

Published: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:00:00 UTC

Stuff I learned from Ignite 2025 Azure Web Apps (part of Azure App Service) remains one of the most effective platforms for hosting production AI-enabled applications on Azure


Azure Web Apps and AI — What’s New from Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Azure Greg)

Published: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:36:29 UTC

Microsoft Ignite 2025 reaffirmed that AI is now a first-class development model across the Azure platform, not just an optional add-on


Merry Multicloud: Managing AWS Virtual Machine Instances with Azure Arc (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:00:00 UTC

In my Festive Tech Calendar contribution this year, I’ll show you how to manage AWS Virtual Machine instances with AzureContinue Reading


KB: Veeam Backup Fails to Synology SMB Share – “An unexpected network error occurred – Asynchronous request operation has failed” (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 11:00:13 UTC

Last Updated on December 28, 2025 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction Recently, I ran into a frustrating Veeam… The post KB: Veeam Backup Fails to Synology SMB Share – “An unexpected network error occurred – Asynchronous request operation has failed” first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


How to List and Export Available Azure VM Images by Generation and Region with an Azure PowerShell script (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:50:47 UTC

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to use an Azure PowerShell script to list and export available Azure VMContinue Reading


Connecting Local MCP (STDIO) servers remotely using Proxy (msandbu.org)

Published: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:37:46 UTC

So for some time now I have been tinkering with, how can I use local MCP servers remotely? Think about the scenario where I want to utilize MCP against a specific machine in another network segment, such as for running commands in Bash/zsh/PowerShell or even local file operations


The future state of End-User Computing (msandbu.org)

Published: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:58:28 UTC

This is a long overdue blog post focusing on what I believe will be the future state of the EUC, and is essentially a summary of a session I did at EUC Denmark back in March


SignToolGUI 2.1.0.0 Released 🎉 (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:12:38 UTC

Last Updated on December 16, 2025 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction I’m happy to announce the release of… The post SignToolGUI 2.1.0.0 Released 🎉 first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


New Intune/Autopatch Feature: CVE and KB reporting – Better visibility, smarter patching – General Availability (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:39:09 UTC

Last Updated on December 15, 2025 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction Microsoft has now begun the rollout of… The post New Intune/Autopatch Feature: CVE and KB reporting – Better visibility, smarter patching – General Availability first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


What's New in Entra ID for November 2025 (DirTeam.com)

Published: Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:37:14 UTC

Entra ID, 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


Global Secure Access – Guest Access support with the Windows Client (B2B Guest) (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 11:43:19 UTC

Last Updated on January 31, 2026 by Michael Morten Sonne B2B Guest Access feature is renamed to “External… The post Global Secure Access – Guest Access support with the Windows Client (B2B Guest) first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


Subnet peering and ExpressRoute (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:45:34 UTC

Yesterday I got an interesting question


Major updates in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Intune (December 2025) (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:17:24 UTC

Last Updated on December 4, 2025 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction On December 4, 2025, Microsoft released major… The post Major updates in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Intune (December 2025) first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


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 (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:58:31 UTC

Last Updated on November 25, 2025 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid work models,… The post Global Secure Access – Intelligent Local Access for Private Access first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


Application Gateway for Containers: Istio integration (6) (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:32:44 UTC

This post will explore the functionality in Azure Application Gateway for Containers (AGC) to integrate with an Istio service mesh in Kubernetes


The Hidden Microsoft Entra PIM URLs Microsoft Never Documented – Even When ‘Restrict Access to Microsoft Entra Admin Center’ Is Enabled (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:40:58 UTC

Last Updated on November 14, 2025 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction Many organizations are tightening there security for… The post The Hidden Microsoft Entra PIM URLs Microsoft Never Documented – Even When ‘Restrict Access to Microsoft Entra Admin Center’ Is Enabled first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


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


Virtual WAN static routes redistribution (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:17:23 UTC

Azure Virtual WAN is one of the networking options offered by Azure, and routing inside of Virtual WAN has become a sort of dark art with the many supported options


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


What's New in Entra ID for October 2025 (DirTeam.com)

Published: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:47:51 UTC

Entra ID, 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


ServiceNow and Microsoft Copilot (msandbu.org)

Published: Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:08:56 UTC

This is a summary of a presentation that I had a few weeks ago where I went into different integration options between Microsoft Copilot and Service Now, both using Copilot 365 and with Copilot Studio building custom agents


The video of my presentation at the 2025 Hybrid Identity Protection Conference is now available on demand (DirTeam.com)

Published: Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:55:49 UTC

The Hybrid Identity Protection Conference is Semperis Inc.’s event in the spirit of The Expert Conference (TEC) to bring together the leading experts in the field of Identity and Access Management


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 (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:59:42 UTC

Last Updated on October 20, 2025 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction Over the last few days, I spent… The post Extending the Migrate2GSA PowerShell Module – Why I added JSON support first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


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–Joined Devices"


Application Gateway for Containers: Web Application Firewall support (5) (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:59:12 UTC

This post will explore the new support in Azure Application Gateway for Containers (AGC) for Web Application Firewall (WAF) as documented in https://aka.ms/agc/waf


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 (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:58:27 UTC

Last Updated on October 4, 2025 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction Microsoft continues to improve Entra’s resilience features… The post Entra ID – Soft-delete & Restore for Conditional Access + New PowerShell Module first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


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


Using GitHub CoPilot with Azure (Azure Greg)

Published: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:14:47 UTC

This is my entry for this year’s Azure Back To School


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 »


Going beyond 8 peers in Azure Route Server (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:51:30 UTC

After a good while without posting anything, I finally decided to slowly recommence again


Copilot Studio Agents with MCP using Logic Apps (msandbu.org)

Published: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:13:19 UTC

Recently Microsoft introduced MCP support for Logic Apps (as described here –> Set up Standard Workflows as MCP Servers – Azure Logic Apps | Microsoft Learn) I just wanted to use this blog post to document a bit of the deployment and steps involved since the documentation was not that descriptive in some steps


Azure Back to School 2025 – Azure Arc Under the Hood: Troubleshooting the Azure Connected Machine agent (Wim Matthyssen)

Published: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:40:00 UTC

Azure Back to School s a fantastic community initiative founded by Dwayne Natwick and Derek Smith


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 (Blog – Sonne´s Cloud)

Published: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:53:54 UTC

Last Updated on September 17, 2025 by Michael Morten Sonne Introduction Microsoft has recently teaset App Management Policies… The post Entra ID – When Ideas Become Features: Reflections on Entra ID App Policies first appeared on Blog - Sonne´s Cloud.


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


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 (Håvard Løkensgard)

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


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


Using VS Code Beast Mode to learn (Azure Greg)

Published: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:51:23 UTC

The post Using VS Code Beast Mode to learn appeared first on Azure Greg.


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

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


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

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


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 »


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 — 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 to create a Azure AI Chatbot Realtime Audio using AI Foundry to search PDF Doc (CloudInspired.com)

Published: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:35:50 UTC

In this step by step demo, we’ll show you how to build and create a voice activated web page that allows real-time audio queries with a friendly GPT-powered chatbot digital …


Use Intune Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) with Face & PIN (CloudInspired.com)

Published: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:56:22 UTC

In this video, we take a deep dive into configuring Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) using Microsoft Intune passwordless authentication using dual Multi-Factor Unlock using both PIN and Facial recognition …


How to use Intune to Manage AVD Windows Session Hosts (CloudInspired.com)

Published: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:23:23 UTC

In a previous video we used a Azure Virtual Desktop Gold Image Virtual Machine, with all our company apps installed


How I Accidentally Spent a stupid amount on a Test Firewall (And Built a Solution So It Never Happens Again) (Håvard Løkensgard)

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 (Håvard Løkensgard)

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

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


Agentic AI Security – Part 1: Uncovering Hidden Threats (REBELADMIN)

Published: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:58:51 UTC

As we all know, AI is evolving at an incredible pace — sometimes it feels like we barely have time to catch our breath


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 policies—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


Getting Started with Azure Front Door and Private Link for Container Apps (Håvard Løkensgard)

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 »


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 Build: My Takeaways from this years conference (Azure Greg)

Published: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:02:13 UTC

This years Microsoft Build was full of new releases, new services, new ways of doing things, and yep, lots of AI


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 “Azure 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 tedious—but also critical—challenges in a Microsoft Business Premium environment


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 Flows—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 task—especially when you’re dealing with high turnover, distributed teams, or unknown user lists


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


Azure Firewall and Service Endpoints (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 11:50:13 UTC

In my recent blog series Private Link reality bites I briefly mentioned the possibility of inspecting Service Endpoints with Azure Firewall, and many have asked for more details on that configuration


VNet Flow Logs Recipes (part 2): fine-tune your security rules (Cloudtrooper)

Published: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:57:07 UTC

Right when VNet Flow Logs were launched I blogged about some recipes that help to extract insights out of the different information fields contained in the Flow Logs


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 »


Legacy Platforms Are Not the Enemy (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Sat, 05 Apr 2025 21:00:00 UTC

Almost every platform engineer experiences the same moment when joining a company with a long-running cloud platform.You open the repository.You start reading the Terraform code.You inspect the CI/CD pipelines.And suddenly… confusion.Your first instinct — especially if you've come through courses, reference architectures, or cloud conferences — is usually the same:"This needs a full rewrite


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.


Securing Microsoft Business Premium Part 04: Passwords Unlocked – Mastering Self-Service Password Reset and Password Protection (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:00:11 UTC

With authentication & authorization covered in the previous posts of the series, it's now time to dive into strengthening our password policies, empowering end-users, and enhancing overall password security


Is Europe Going to “F-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


Securing Microsoft Business Premium Part 03: Authorization Best Practices from Zero Trust to Complete Access Control (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 06:00:13 UTC

In Part 02 , we explored authentication , the process of verifying user identities—ensuring users are who they claim to be


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 the Azure Spring Clean 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 »


Why The Classic DMZ/Secure Zone Design Is Worthless in Azure (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:00:00 UTC

I see many people implementing classic network security designs in Azure


Micro-Segmentation Security In Azure Networks (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:26:19 UTC

In this post, I want to discuss the importance of designing and implementing micro-segmentation in Azure networks


God Mode with a Timer: Using Logic Apps to Restrict Elevated Access in Entra (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

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

In my last post I covered how to monitor the GOD Mode in Azure (Coined by the great John Savill )


How Many Azure Route Tables Should I Have? (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:55:51 UTC

In this Azure Networking deep dive, I’m going to share some of my experience around planning the creation and association of Route Tables in Microsoft Azure


How Does Azure Routing Work (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:10:20 UTC

Here comes yet another “How does it work” post on Azure networking


Routing Is The Security Cabling of Azure (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:44:35 UTC

In this post, I want to explain why routing is so important in Microsoft Azure


How Many Subnets Do I Need In An Azure Virtual Network? (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:08:58 UTC

You’re designing a new virtual network in Azure


Beware Of The Default Rules In Network Security Groups (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:03:31 UTC

The Network Security Group (NSG) is the primary mechanism for segmenting a subnet in Microsoft Azure


How Do Network Security Groups Work? (Aidan Finn, IT Pro)

Published: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:01:03 UTC

A Greek Phalanx, protected by a shield wall made up of many individuals working under 1 instruction as a unit - like an NSG. The post How Do Network Security Groups Work? first appeared on Aidan Finn, IT Pro.


Unlocking Microsoft Entra’s Elevated Access Logs: Better Security, Better Insights (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:00:10 UTC

Elevating access to manage Azure subscriptions is a valuable tool for administrators, particularly when dealing with unknown or orphaned subscriptions


Securing Microsoft Business Premium Part 02: Your Authentication is Broken—Here’s How to Fix It (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 06:00:18 UTC

In the first part of this series , we laid the foundation for securing Microsoft Business Premium environments, covering the core security principles and configurations


Understanding Azure Network Security: Differentiating Azure Firewall, WAF, DDoS Protection, and NSGs (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:00:00 UTC

​In the realm of Azure's network security, understanding the distinct roles of services like Azure Firewall, Web Application Gateway (WAF), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection, and Network Security Groups (NSGs) is pivotal for crafting a robust security architecture


Your Microsoft Entra Tenant Isn’t as Secure as You Think – Fix It with Protected Actions! (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:00:12 UTC

Protecting highly critical configurations in our Entra tenants has never been easier! Join me as we explore Protected Actions  in Microsoft Entra and how they help us lock down security-sensitive operations


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 »


Securing Microsoft Business Premium Part 01: The First Step to an Unbreakable Defense (Cloudy With a Chance of Security)

Published: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:00:05 UTC

Today kicks off a comprehensive blog series where I’ll delve into the security features of the Business Premium license SKU, offering detailed step-by-step guidance and best practices


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 »


Optimizing Azure SQL Database Costs with Hyperscale Elastic Pools (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:00:00 UTC

In today's data-driven landscape, organizations often grapple with managing large-scale databases efficiently while keeping costs in check


Network Segmentation Strategy on Azure for Secure and Efficient Virtual Networks (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:00:00 UTC

Most customers I've encountered often approach Azure networking the same way they would with on-premises environments


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


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


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.


Terraform Ephemeral Resources (AZURE HEROES - Blog)

Published: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 21:00:00 UTC

Terraform 1.10 introduced a groundbreaking concept called ephemeral resources


Conditional Access Gallery – Point, Select, and Deploy in Minutes (Daniel Chronlund Cloud Security Blog)

Published: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:58:43 UTC

With my new Conditional Access Gallery tool Invoke-DCConditionalAccessGallery in DCToolbox you can pick and choose from any of 25+ available Conditional Access templates included, and the tool will auto-deploy them in your tenant (report-only mode), automatically create all dependencies like groups, named locations, and terms of use agreements, and finally document your new policy design … Continue reading Conditional Access Gallery – Point, Select, and Deploy in Minutes →


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


Git Fundamentals for Cloud Admins (Daniel Chronlund Cloud Security Blog)

Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:18:53 UTC

I decided to create a structured guide to Git fundamentals, tailored for cloud admins like myself


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


Deploy Maester with Terraform: A Simple Guide (Håvard Løkensgard)

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


Step-by-Step Guide : Process Entra ID Entitlement Management Access Package on-behalf of another user (preview) (REBELADMIN)

Published: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:21:06 UTC

Entra ID Entitlement Management access packages enable administrators to offer a self-service experience for users, granting access to groups, applications, and sites


Mastering Azure Virtual Network Manager for Security and Efficiency (Håvard Løkensgard)

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


Microsoft Loop – Collaborate for Projects, Education, Teaching and Training! (CloudInspired.com)

Published: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:05:33 UTC

In this article we look into a step by step guide and demo on Microsoft Loop


Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to use Custom Security Attributes (REBELADMIN)

Published: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:55:55 UTC

In my previous blog post, I explained how to use Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger actions based on user attribute changes


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.


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 (Håvard Løkensgard)

Published: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:00:00 UTC

I often get asked how to stay updated on major tech updates


Simplifying Entra ID Temporary Access Pass Creation with PowerShell (Daniel Chronlund Cloud Security Blog)

Published: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:33:51 UTC

Sometimes we need to grant temporary access to Entra ID users for specific purposes, like onboarding


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)


Proxy via Private Link - Disconnected VNets, centralised Internet egress (Adam Stuart)

Published: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:00:50 UTC


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? (Håvard Løkensgard)

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


Cloud PC – Run your own desktop in Windows 365 Cloud! (CloudInspired.com)

Published: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:26:46 UTC

In this article we are going to discuss Windows 365 Cloud PCs and running your own personal desktop in the cloud


ExpressRoute Traffic Collector (Adam Stuart)

Published: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:05:27 UTC

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/traffic-collector


Virtual WAN Route-maps to fix asymmetric routing (Adam Stuart)

Published: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:58:35 UTC

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-wan/route-maps-how-to


Migrating to an AZ-enabled ExpressRoute Gateway (Adam Stuart)

Published: Thu, 30 May 2024 06:24:40 UTC

Discussion of why this is importance, and technical demo showing process, discussion of caveats and considerations. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/gateway-migration 00:00 Introduction 01:08 Why AZ gateways are important 03:04 ExpressRoute gateway SKU and upgrade paths 05:02 Multiple prefixes on gateway subnet 06:35 Considerations 07:15 Demo


Azure Storage IOPS Calculations with Azure Virtual Desktop and FSLogix (CloudInspired.com)

Published: Wed, 29 May 2024 10:15:46 UTC

This post and video gives a rough estimated guide on Azure Storage IOPS calculations looking at storage performance on steady state IOPS and sign in burst that’s expected from our …


Azure Virtual Desktop Setup with FSLogix – Watch the Complete Guide and Demo! (CloudInspired.com)

Published: Wed, 29 May 2024 07:08:32 UTC

In this post and video we are discussing Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and showing how to setup, configure and implement from scratch a fully working AVD solution using FSLogix profiles …


Azure Virtual WAN: Personal Experiences and Key Considerations (Håvard Løkensgard)

Published: Mon, 13 May 2024 09:00:00 UTC

Are you intrigued by Azure Virtual WAN? If so, continue reading


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


SharePoint Security – Best Practices that you must know!! (CloudInspired.com)

Published: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:55:38 UTC

I`m always getting asked what are the most popular SharePoint Security Best Practices that you can consider that we can apply to our SharePoint sites for increased security controls and …


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


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


Navigating the Challenges of Policy as Code in Azure: Part 2 (Håvard Løkensgard)

Published: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:00:00 UTC

Previously, I have written about some challenges around policy as code


Azure Certification Path in 2024 (CloudInspired.com)

Published: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:58:12 UTC

This video explains importance of the Azure certification path in 2024 and how we should pass exams for that next Cloud job


Entra ID security – That you MUST review! (CloudInspired.com)

Published: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:46:31 UTC

Entra ID security default settings in the portal that are important for you to review.We show various Entra ID security default settings


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


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


Staying productive with the Pomodoro Technique (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 UTC


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 Summit 2024


Conditional Access ‘What If’ Simulation with PowerShell (Daniel Chronlund Cloud Security Blog)

Published: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 08:42:10 UTC

Introduction So, I decided to write my own Conditional Access evaluation engine in PowerShell, like one does on rainy November nights, right? Its purpose is to provide capabilities similar to the built-in What If tool in the Entra ID portal, but with a clear focus on finding grant control gaps in common an uncommon use … Continue reading Conditional Access ‘What If’ Simulation with PowerShell →


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


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


Easy Bulk Management of Entra ID Conditional Access Policies (Daniel Chronlund Cloud Security Blog)

Published: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 08:44:23 UTC

Managing Conditional Access polices in Entra ID at scale can be a real hassle


How To Deploy a Complete Entra ID Conditional Access PoC in Under 5 Minutes (Daniel Chronlund Cloud Security Blog)

Published: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:27:44 UTC

This is by far the most substantial time saving tool I’ve ever shared with the community


“Unlocking” the Future: The Power of Passkeys in Online Security (Daniel Chronlund Cloud Security Blog)

Published: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:45:49 UTC

I’ve written about passwordless solutions for some years now, and I’m glad to be able to write about another interesting technology in this area, namely passkeys, especially since Microsoft just announced integrated support for them in Windows 11! In today’s digital age, the need for robust online security has never been more crucial


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  #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


Celebrating 200 episodes of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 UTC


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


Microsoft Entra ID Honeypot Accounts with Microsoft Sentinel (Daniel Chronlund Cloud Security Blog)

Published: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:02:53 UTC

Threat hunting is a powerful method of trying to detect stealthy cyber attacks


Automatic Azure AD PIM Role Micromanagement Based on Role Impact (Daniel Chronlund Cloud Security Blog)

Published: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:14:16 UTC

Azure AD Privileged Identity Management makes it possible to configure activation and expiration settings on a per-role basis


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 “old” servers to Azure


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


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


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.


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.


Follow ‘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


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


The Threat of Microsoft 365 Wiper Malware (Daniel Chronlund Cloud Security Blog)

Published: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:44:47 UTC

Ransomware has been the major cyber threat the last couple of years, and it still is! But a new trend I see is the rise of wiper malware, which basically tries to destroy your data, instead of encrypting it


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


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


A short recap of ESPC 2022 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 UTC


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. 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


Exam Study Guide: SC-100 - Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 UTC


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


Goodbye, Rencore! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 UTC


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 #AzOps #Sysctr"


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


Use the Resource Explorer from the Azure Portal (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 UTC


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 in 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


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


Connecting to SharePoint Online using Managed Identity with granular access permissions (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 UTC

The Sites.Selected application scope was introduced in Microsoft Graph some time ago to support granular app access permissions in SharePoint Online


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


Stop using client secrets and certificates, start using Managed Identities (LearningByDoing.cloud)

Published: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 UTC

Whenever an Azure resource needs to authenticate to Azure AD, an identity needs to be provided to the Azure resource


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. #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


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 the Festive Tech Calendar 2021 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 Center #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. In this post, we'll check out some use cases, and an easy way to set up the basic configuration and code for allowing our applications to send e-mails using the Microsoft Graph.


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.


Hornet Security – FREE Webinar – What’s New in Windows Server 2022 #altaro #winserv #Windows (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:18:07 UTC

What’s New in Windows Server 2022 Every three years Windows unveils a new version of its massively widespread OS, Windows Server


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


This Holiday Season, win with Hornetsecurity! #Hornetsecurity #M365 #win #Holiday (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:20:00 UTC

This Holiday Season, win with Hornetsecurity! ‘Tis the season to be caring – for your loved ones, for each other, and yes, even for your data and mailboxes


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


Step By Step Troubleshooting Azure Arc-enabled servers with agent connection issues #Windows #WindowsServer #WinServ #Azure #AzureArc #Cloud (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:17:00 UTC

Azure Arc-enabled servers enables you to manage your Windows and Linux physical servers and virtual machines hosted outside of Azure, on your corporate network, or other cloud provider


Deep-linking Azure Log Analytics and Application Insights queries (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 UTC


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


First hands-on Upgrading to Windows Server 2022 Domain Controller #Windows2022 #Windows2016 #winserv #CloudOS #WIMVP (Robert Smit MVP Blog)

Published: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 17:38:12 UTC

Windows Server 2022 is built on the strong foundation of Windows Server 2019 and brings many innovations on three key themes: security, Azure hybrid integration and management, and application platform


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


Establish your organizational compliance readiness (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 UTC


Productivity tips for PowerToys Run on Windows (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


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


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 in 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


Querying data from multiple Application Insights instances (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 UTC


Upgrade Application Insights to Workspace-based Resource Mode from Classic (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 UTC


Azure App Service tips: Increase reliability with the Auto-Healing features (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Azure App Service tips: Enable the Health-Check capabilities (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Introducing the LogAnalytics.Client NuGet for .NET Core (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Windows Virtual Desktop Christmas Crackers ()

Published: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 10:00:00 UTC

Greetings all


Purging container images from Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:00:00 UTC


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


Changing virtual machine regions with Azure Resource Mover ()

Published: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:27:32 UTC

This post is going to be about a new service currently in public preview at the time of writing called Azure Resource Mover


Azure Back to School: Azure Lighthouse ()

Published: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:01:00 UTC

Hi everyone


Favorite Visual Studio Code Extensions for Azure (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Discover issues with Azure Functions and App Service using Application Insights (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:00:00 UTC


GitHub Actions for Security Code Analysis (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00 UTC


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


Website security scanning with GitHub Actions and OWASP ZAP (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC


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


Newsletter #3: Stay on top of the Azure Governance game (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Create a custom Azure Security Center recommendation with Azure Policy (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Programmatically create Azure Container Instances and connect a Managed Identity (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Installing Ghost for local development on Windows (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Programmatically create Azure Container Instances in an existing Virtual Network (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Use Azure App Service Diagnostics - Improve performance, best practices, security and more. (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:00:00 UTC


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


I am giving away consulting advice for Azure (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Newsletter #2: I am giving away consulting advice for Azure (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Understanding Azure Policies with Visual Studio Code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Running .NET 5 on Azure App Services (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 UTC


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. Use the Azure Application Change Analysis to learn all about it!


Installing and using the Windows Package Manager - winget (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 UTC


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


Newsletter #1: Let's talk about code analysis (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 14 May 2020 00:00:00 UTC


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


Thoughts on Bring Your Own Key, or BYOK, to Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


A few tips for securing your remote workforce in a Microsoft cloud landscape (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Best Practices for building and designing Azure Functions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:00:00 UTC


Re-use service instances by Implementing Dependency Injection in Azure Functions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 UTC


Use the new Azure SDKs with Managed Identities (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 UTC


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


Azure Functions and secure Configuration with built-in integration to Azure Key Vault (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 UTC


Automate Azure DevOps code security analysis with the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extensions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:00:00 UTC


The product or service you tried to reach has been discontinued. (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:00 UTC


Use Azure Monitor to get Network Insights and Storage Insights (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 UTC


Diagnosing and troubleshooting configuration and application errors in Azure App Services (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 UTC


We just launched an Azure Podcast (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


Monitoring Office 365 tenants with Azure Sentinel (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00:00 UTC


Visualize your templates with the Azure ARM Template Viewer extension for VS Code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00:00 UTC


Who accessed my Azure Key Vault? (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


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


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


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


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


Archive (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


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


What's new in SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Server 2019 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 UTC


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


Azure Tip: List of supported VM Sizes in Azure Container Services (AKS) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:00:00 UTC


Monitoring your Kubernetes cluster running on Azure Container Service (AKS) using Log Analytics (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:00:00 UTC


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


Azure Container Services (AKS) - Upgrading your Kubernetes cluster (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


Tip: Docker Extension for VSCode (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 UTC


Rencore Tech Talks - Episode 008 - Benefits of using Office 365 PnP in your organization, with Eric Overfield (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 13 May 2017 00:00:00 UTC


Rencore Tech Talks - Episode 007 - SharePoint Client Side Development experiences with Mark Rackley (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 UTC


Rencore Tech Talks - Episode 006 - Office 365 PnP Provisioning Engine with Mikael Svenson (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 UTC


Rencore Tech Talks - Episode 005 - Microsoft Teams with Maarten Eekels (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 00:00:00 UTC


Rencore Tech Talks - Episode 004 - SharePoint 2016 and the BI workloads with John White (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:00:00 UTC


Rencore Tech Talks - Episode 003 - Trevor Seward on Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint 2016 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:00:00 UTC


Rencore Tech Talks - Episode 002 - Sahil Malik on Cross Platform Development in the Enterprise (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:00:00 UTC


Rencore Tech Talks - Episode 001 - Talking with Maarten Eekels about News in Office 365 Groups (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 00:00:00 UTC


Getting the instance id of a running Azure Function with ExecutionContext.InvocationId (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 UTC


Reuse your C# Script (csx) code in multiple Azure Functions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 UTC


Azure Storage REST API: Authenticate with C# (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 UTC


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


Using appsettings.json instead of web.config in .NET Core projects (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


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


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


Azure Resource Manager Template Visualisation with ARMVIZ (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:00:00 UTC


Azure Resource Manager tools for Visual Studio Code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:00:00 UTC


Webinars: SharePoint Framework with Microsoft's Bill Baer and Vesa Juvonen (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


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


Analyze your SharePoint Framework code using SPCAF (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 UTC


Introducing the SharePoint Framework - The new developer experience for SharePoint (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 UTC


The Future of SharePoint - it's here! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 UTC


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


Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Part 4 - Tip: Azure Resource Explorer (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 UTC


Collab365 Solutions Days: My session about SPCAF and SharePoint & Office 365 Transformation Guidance (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Introduction to blog series (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:00:00 UTC


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


Automating Software Installations with Boxstarter and Chocolatey (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Highlights from the recent announcements at BUILD 2015 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 04 May 2015 00:00:00 UTC


Microsoft Office 2016 reaches Public Preview for Home/Consumer and Enterprise (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 04 May 2015 00:00:00 UTC


Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference in May 2015–A free online conference (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


Getting Started with building Azure WebJobs ("Timer Jobs") for your Office 365 sites (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


Extending Windows Azure Mobile Services queries to include relational data and optional metadata (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 UTC


Reflections on being a worker in a mobile- and cloud first world (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 UTC


Microsoft Ignite - the new consolidated conference! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:00:00 UTC


Integrating the Google Analytics API in SharePoint (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:00:00 UTC


Microsoft releases the Office 365 roadmap - and keeps it up to date (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


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


Getting started with Office 365 development - Part 1 - Setting up your environment (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 10 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC


Improvements for Microsoft OneDrive for Business (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


Building Apps for SharePoint in Office 365 using Access 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 UTC


The future of Forms with SharePoint and Office 365 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00:00 UTC


Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 2013 released (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 UTC


Visual Studio Online - Let's you leverage the cloud for your development projects (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:00:00 UTC


Tools for your SharePoint 2013 development toolbox (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:00:00 UTC


Tip: Getting the normal domain username from the claims username in SharePoint 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 UTC


Automating SharePoint Development - Iterative Development Process (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00:00 UTC


Preparing for upgrade to SharePoint 2013 - Iterative Upgrade Process (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:00:00 UTC


FindBestContentDatabaseForSiteCreation() problem after upgrading to SharePoint 2013 - Solution (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:00:00 UTC


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


SP 2013: Extending the SuiteBarDelegateControl by adding the Title Breadcrumb control (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2013: Getting started with the new Geolocation field in SharePoint 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 UTC


Upgrading your SharePoint 2010 Visual Studio projects and solutions to SharePoint 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 UTC


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


SP 2013 Tip - Change the "SharePoint" text in the top left corner. (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2013: Some new DelegateControl additions to the SharePoint 2013 master pages (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2013: Measuring performance on the JSLink property in SharePoint 2013 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2013: Searching in SharePoint 2013 using the REST new API's (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 UTC


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


Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2012 - Recap (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 UTC


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


Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 finally reached RTM! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint 2013: Business Connectivity Services - Talking to your external lists using REST (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 UTC


SharePointDiscussions.com - Discussion Forum software for your SharePoint sites (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 UTC


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


SharePoint 2013: Business Connectivity Services (BCS) improvements - Introduction (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint 2013 - Microsoft announces the new versions of SharePoint and Office (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


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


SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 8 - Control that ViewState (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Developing for SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure - Part 1 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 UTC


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


Office 365 - Part 2: Getting started with Office 365 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Developing for performance part 7 - Crunching those scripts (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 6 - CSS Sprites (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 5 - Disposal patterns and tools (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 4 - Logging (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 3 - Caching in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 2 - SPMonitoredScope (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Developing for performance Part 1 - Developer Dashboard (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SEF 2010 - A recap (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Web Application settings (web.config) modifications in SharePoint 2010 via code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 UTC


Find error messages with a Correlation ID token in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Developing with the Word Automation Services in SharePoint Server 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Introduction to programmatically working with Taxonomies in SharePoint Server 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 UTC


CKS : Developer Tools – A tool for your toolbox (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 UTC


MCPD: SharePoint track (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 UTC


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


SP 2010: Uploading files using the Client OM in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UTC


Business Connectivity Services (BCS) problem with AuthenticationMode and RevertToSelf (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: How to create a PowerShell Snapin Cmdlet - Part 2 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: How to create a PowerShell Snapin - Part 1 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UTC


Access denied by Business Data Connectivity - Solution (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 08 May 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: SharePoint Server 2010 - Creating a custom Document ID provider (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Validate Sandboxed Solutions using SPSolutionValidator (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 UTC


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


Getting started with LINQ to SharePoint in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: LINQ to SharePoint - What CAML lies behind my query? (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) using the Client Object Model (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Programmatically work with External Lists (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Getting started with Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: How To - Event Receivers and Custom Error Pages (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: How To - Relational lists in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: List Joins & SPQuery enchancements! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC


SP 2010: Getting started with the Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen – Code samples (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint Books: Recommended Reading (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 UTC


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


SPTraceView - Easy overview of the SharePoint logs (ULS logs) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint BDC Part 2: Creating your first BDC Web Part (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 UTC


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


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


Debugging your code execution for anonymous users in SharePoint (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 UTC


Recover/fetch the Application Pool password (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint Server 2010 preliminary requirements (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 UTC


WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007 Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.5 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 UTC


How to: Programmatically remove a Field (SPField) from a view (SPView) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 UTC


How to: Upload a file/document using the SharePoint Object Model (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 UTC


WSPBuilder - Walkthrough of the Visual Studio Add-in (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 UTC


Ten (10) Free SharePoint Themes - Visual Overview (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint Online - Customization - Part 2 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint Online – A first look (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 UTC


Backing up your local Subversion repositories using Live Mesh (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 UTC


Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – 1.3 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 UTC


SPDisposeCheck tool finally released – get your code straight! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UTC


Starting a SharePoint workflow from code (Event Receiver) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint development environment now running Windows 7 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UTC


Custom list definitions with custom forms – changing master page (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UTC


How To: SharePoint and Silverlight 2.0 – Part 1 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 UTC


How To: Custom Web Part Properties (ToolPart) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UTC


Microsoft Office Systems 2007 – Service Pack 2 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UTC


Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 – CTP – Download now! (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UTC


CKS EBE – Comments Manager – Version 1.1.0.0 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UTC


Web Part Caching – A simple approach (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UTC


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


SharePoint Forum and SharePoint Forum Web Part (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint's hidden user-list - User Information List (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 UTC

SharePoint's hidden User Information List has been around for a long time


SharePoint Virtual Images from Microsoft (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 UTC


How To: Easily construct your CAML queries with CAML Query Builder (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 UTC


Introduction to SharePoint Queries (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 UTC


SPQuery returning all items (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint Forums WebPart : What's going on? (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 UTC


Forum Web Part for SharePoint (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 UTC


Tip: RequestAccessEnabled programatically using the SharePoint Object Model (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 UTC


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


SharePoint Cross List Queries in a custom UserControl (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 UTC


MOSS 2007: Using AJAX UserControls in SharePoint (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 UTC


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


MOSS 2007: Configure Document Conversion for your server (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UTC


MOSS 2007: Customizing the Search Results Page (XSLT) - Part 2 - Add highlighting (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UTC


MOSS 2007: Connect a custom Search Page to a custom Search Scope (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:00:00 UTC


MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 UTC


Simple Excel Services - Step by step, publishing a spreadsheet to SharePoint 2007 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:00:00 UTC


Zimmergren VSTO Tip #1: Extend the Ribbon-menu in Word 2007 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:00 UTC


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


Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #2: Retrieve stuff by code (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 UTC


Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #1: Anonymous Access (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 UTC


SharePoint 2007 - Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Solutions (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 UTC


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


MOSS 2007: Search and Indexing (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 UTC


What's new in WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 UTC


Creating a custom Master Page for your MOSS 2007 portals and sites (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 UTC


Welcome to my new blog (Tobias Zimmergren)

Published: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 UTC