Today, Microsoft announced that Azure Sentinel is now Generally Available (GA). What this means, is that Azure Sentinel can be used in production, the pricing… Read More »Understanding and getting started with Azure Sentinel
It’s not a secret by now, that I love writing. Yesterday I wrote 15 pages for my upcoming book on Microsoft Azure – it will… Read More »Insights: How I write and what I’ve learned on writing this year
I’ve used and worked with Microsoft Azure for a decade now. Often I’m working in customer subscriptions, and don’t have to worry about the cost… Read More »A look at Azure costs based on a real solution
About three months ago, Microsoft announced a new command-line interface for Windows called Windows Terminal. Occasionally I am seeing it being called Microsoft Terminal also.… Read More »Getting started with Windows Terminal
This is a quick post, as this was a quick procedure. I’ve been running a Synology-branded NAS for ages. 86 months, or over 7 years… Read More »Upgrading Synology DS412+ RAM to 4 GB
I purchased a Surface Go device in the summer of 2018 while I was visiting New York City. It was also the same weekend when… Read More »Becoming passwordless in Microsoft 365 using Surface Go and a FIDO2 key
Yesterday, Microsoft announced Azure Lighthouse. This post will walk you through what the service is, what benefits it brings, and why you should start using… Read More »Azure Lighthouse – managing customer Azure tenants as a Service Provider
I’m currently running my blog (the one you’re reading, thanks!) in Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. For the longest of times — which is maybe five… Read More »Running a static site in Microsoft Azure using WordPress for content management
By now, if you’ve read any of my posts in the past few years, it should be obvious I’m a geek, nerd, and techie by… Read More »Doing sales as a techie: Efficient strategies for sales
[Note: Some things have changed with RDP in recent Windows versions so I updated this article accordingly in April, 2019] I remember reading about this… Read More »[Updated] Making Remote Desktop fun again: Dynamic resizing and resolution changes while connected
I grew up with Perl, tcsh, bash, sh, awk, sed, grep, pico, vi, command.com and cmd.exe. Building scripts, batch files and little automation here and… Read More »Mastering Azure CLI
Many companies I interact with have expressed an interest in migrating their legacy SQL Server databases to Azure. Typically this is due to End of… Read More »Anonymizing and masking sensitive data in SQL databases before migrating to Azure SQL
I can’t quite remember when I started using a password manager, or which password manager it was at the time. As an IT Pro I’ve… Read More »One password to rule them all: Migrating to 1Password from KeePass and text files
“This is a quick one”, I thought. A customer asked me to have a look at their old CRM environment, that was running in a… Read More »Migrating SQL Server 2008 databases to Azure SQL
I’ve used a Synology NAS solution at home since 2012. It’s simply great – very affordable, runs everything I need and has consistently given me… Read More »An adventure in containers and command-line tools: Running MongoDB in Azure