Microsoft’s RPA tool, Power Automate Desktop, has two modes – unattended and attended. In this post, I’ll look into the implications of these two and how it affects the features and licensing. I’ve written previously about RPA and Power Automate… Read More »Planning for licensing in unattended and attended RPA solutions with Power Automate Desktop
It’s Monday, and the past week has been filled with lots of great activities – Microsoft Ignite, our very own community session, and good progress at the gym. Also, we continue publishing our weekly podcast episodes with Tobias for the… Read More »Building a secure remote access setup using Tailscale
I began my Executive MBA journey in March 2019. It’s a two-year program that you can complete on the side while you work full-time. As part of the studies, you need to write a thesis (I graduated in early 2021).… Read More »Researching developer advocacy – a revisit to my Executive MBA thesis from 2020
It’s early October, and we’re starting to experience the colder evenings and cold nights here where I live. Thus it’s the perfect time to tinker with another project – this time a VPN solution to Azure! But aren’t VPN solutions… Read More »Building a Point-to-Site VPN setup to Azure using Azure AD authentication
More than six months ago, I wrote about planning and designing our future house. Fast forward to today, about nine months later, we see plenty of progress. Here’s an update, hoping that someone reading these later might find helpful information… Read More »Building a house: Construction and challenges
Recently, I had a request from a customer. They have a design where two virtual machines are needed in Azure. One is aimed to be used in a classic “DMZ-style” approach, where select endpoints are exposed for select external users… Read More »Replicating files between two Azure Virtual Machines: Considerations and options
One year ago, I wrote about my progress working out at the gym for a year. It’s now been two years, and I’ve been consistently training with a similar approach. I wanted to look back to see how things have… Read More »A look back: Two years of working out at the gym
A few months ago, I wrote Part 1 of this series, documenting how I began building a homelab. I’ve progressed further with my project by adding the 4U dedicated server, the Raspberry Pi cluster, and cleaning everything up. The setup… Read More »Building a homelab – finalizing the setup (Part 2)
This one is easy. If you block and deny all traffic in your firewall, you cannot access any Azure services. Someone asked me this question a few months ago, and I wanted to test what happens and how a company… Read More »Can you access Microsoft Azure if your firewall is blocking all traffic?
Last week, Windows 365 became available as part of Microsoft 365. It’s a “cloud PC” service – essentially providing a dedicated workstation (as a virtual machine) in Microsoft 365 for a fixed monthly fee. I activated the trial as I… Read More »A look at Windows 365 – the Cloud PC service
On most devices that I frequently use, I use a solution to block excessive ads. Firefox on mobile and desktop is super easy as the same ad blocking extensions work on both. Many of my friends have been praising Pi-Hole… Read More »Goodbye telemetry and ads – running Pi-Hole in a home network
For years, I’ve used the Logitech BRIO 4K as my primary webcam at home. I use it for Windows Hello to unlock my PC, and I use it for each meeting. It’s pretty great – but it’s also just a… Read More »Using a DSLR as a webcam
Today, I’m building a locally hosted (“On-Premises,” if you will) Kubernetes cluster that runs on three Raspberry Pi 4 devices. The goal is to get Kubernetes working and being able to deploy WordPress and MySQL on the cluster. But why?… Read More »Building a Kubernetes cluster using Raspberry Pi 4
Does anyone use the term ‘snail mail’ anymore? Anyway, I still use it to refer to regular posts and mail I seem to be getting each day through my door. We have a sticker on the door to avoid getting… Read More »Building a mailbox sensor solution using Raspberry Pi and a wireless sensor
This week I’ve been working with a set of Linux virtual machines hosted in Azure. They are all Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, so relatively new – but not the latest release (which at the time of writing this is 21.04). Once… Read More »Securing your Linux VMs in Azure with Azure Disk Encryption
This is one of the more enjoyable projects I’ve done recently during my spare time. I run Azure Sentinel in all of my Azure environments – it’s a SIEM solution, which stands for Security Information and Event Management. In essence,… Read More »Building an integration between Azure Sentinel and Unifi infrastructure for a proper SIEM solution
At home, I’ve had many network devices, a varying number of servers, and other gear running for a few decades. After each move, I get rid of a lot of the stuff that I don’t need. Then, over time my… Read More »Building a homelab – moving to rack-mounted gear, and refreshing the internal network (Part 1)
I’m building a new home network, which for me means upgrading certain hardware, and acquiring new hardware over time. The far-reaching plan is to build a solid 10 Gigabit Ethernet-based network, with guest WiFi, proper VLANs, and the ability to… Read More »Review: Ubiquiti Networks’ Unifi Dream Machine Pro (UDM-Pro) in a home network
At home, I run a Plex media server. I’ve added a TV receiver to the setup to have a real DVR that I can control remotely. It’s great! Here’s how it looks in Plex when I want to record all… Read More »Building an integration for Plex with Azure API Management
I’ve spent a considerable time during my career automating and scripting things. I started with plain old MS-DOS .BAT files moved to Unix shell scripts and evolved via Perl to a collection of “hey, let’s use awk/sed/grep/find” VBScript. Eventually, I… Read More »An in-depth look at Microsoft Power Automate Desktop and building Robotic Process Automations