In the past 10 years Microsoft has provided a lot of services in Azure that could also be used “outside” of Azure, especially On Prem. We did this because by DNA, Microsoft is hybrid. Products like Defender (for Server, SQL), Sentinel, or Log Analytics are very common. They just require a manual install of an […]

Sometimes you try to do stuff remotely, and unfortunately, it generates some very bad effects that you did not expect at all. As a result of this, you have problems to reach the machine and get stuck. Today this is what happened to me, changing the IP config in a way that it was impossible […]

As I mentioned in my other Posts, Azure Arc has been introduced by Microsoft to break the silos in the infrastructure. Especially in multi on prem/multi cloud scenarios, IT Pros have difficulties managing such spread out architecture as they are built with different solutions. By silo I mean different tools, procedures, skills for each Cloud, […]

Long time ago, all the IT professionals were working on what we call now “on prem”. At this time, we had to install all the things manually (electricity, racks, servers) and then install Operating Systems and of course Applications. Then, daily, our job was to look at the infrastructure, and make sure it is running […]

A long time ago (10+ years) I had the opportunity to be very active in technical writing. I also had the chance to collaborate with a very good engineer, Philippe Mathon, and co wrote a book on Microsoft firewalls (you remember ISA Server). That was long time ago, when I was a security MVP. I […]