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.

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.

This is why my job is so much fun. I have been working with the CISO of a large retailer that operates multiple independent web portals (some with shopping functions enabled).

As the CISO his primary concern is security. And one of the first steps they are taking is to take a look at the authentication patterns that arrive at the individual user stores.

This problem is probably as old as there are monitoring tools on the market. “How can I exclude legitimately deallocated VMs from alerting” is a question that I’ve heard many times.

Where most monitoring tools such as System Center Operations Manager have tooling around the concept of maintenance mode where all alerts are suppressed for a duration of time; Azure Monitor has no provisions at this point.

This problem is probably as old as there are monitoring tools on the market. “How can I exclude legitimately deallocated VMs from alerting” is a question that I’ve heard many times.

Where most monitoring tools such as System Center Operations Manager have tooling around the concept of maintenance mode where all alerts are suppressed for a duration of time; Azure Monitor has no provisions at this point.

This problem is probably as old as there are monitoring tools on the market. “How can I exclude legitimately deallocated VMs from alerting” is a question that I’ve heard many times.

Where most monitoring tools such as System Center Operations Manager have tooling around the concept of maintenance mode where all alerts are suppressed for a duration of time; Azure Monitor has no provisions at this point.

When using Azure Backup to manage (geo-)distributed backups across a company you may find that the Azure Backup Reports with Power BI is limited to a single storage account. Unfortunately the reporting telemetry coming from Azure Backup needs to be written to a storage account that is in the same region as the Recovery Services Vault.

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I like to share on LinkedIn and asked myself why I’m not sharing the articles I write for my blog. The you-just-have-to-do-it factor, plain laziness and lack of time are the primary reasons why I have not posted links to LinkedIn so far.