Office 365 Security & Compliance Center multi-tenancy (2/2: Process data)

The data available through the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center contains data for all entities stored in that particular Office 365 / Azure Active Directory tenant. Many customers have different business entities that work with the same tenant but have roles within their subordinate companies that needs to access or ingest the compliance pertaining to their entity.…

Office 365 Security & Compliance Center multi-tenancy (1/2: Subscribe to data)

The data available through the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center contains data for all entities stored in that particular Office 365 / Azure Active Directory tenant. Many customers have different business entities that work with the same tenant but have roles within their subordinate companies that needs to access or ingest the compliance pertaining to their entity.…

Virtual Windows Server Summit 2019

Today I was honored to present Server Management for hybrid environments as part of the Virtual Windows Server Summit 2019 webcast. Markus Klein and I have been talking about hybrid backup with Azure Backup and hybrid patching with Azure Update Management.…

Alerting at scale with Azure Monitor

In most enterprise environments governance dictates how alerting for a certain resource needs to look like. Until just recently Azure Monitor only supported to configure alerts based on individual resources and this had to be replicated throughout the organization. Duplication of alert rules requires continued effort to maintain correct alert rules and ensure that all necessary alerting is configured for each project.…

Automation in Azure

Deploying resources and workloads at scale requires a healthy amount of automation. Automation helps to deliver consistent and repeatable results. I’ve tried to categorize some of the technology and provide some pointers to areas of application and pros and cons.…

Azure Monitoring & Operations hackathon

A request that I get many times is to provide guidance and best-practices on how to implement monitoring and operations management with and/or for Azure. Most organizations have subtle differences which makes it hard to put out a generic concept of how to enable this.…

Azure File Sync network bandwidth calculator

When deploying Azure File Sync one question many customers routinely ask is how the network bandwidth required can be calculated. This depends of course on a variety of factors. The most prominent factor is churn rate. How much data is changed over time.…

Tracking changes to Azure Resource Manager providers

A colleague of mine, Tyler Ayers, has written a pretty neat Azure Function that tracks changes made to Azure Resource Manager Providers (ARM) and show these changes in a timeline. The details will give you a clear overview what has been changed and where (which region) that change is available.…