I’ve had a guidebook on the English grammar on my desk for the better part of the last decade. It’s a classic – the Elements… Read More »Check your grammar! Understanding the security implications with cloud-based grammar checkers
As in-person events have generally stopped happening since March, many in the community are now preparing for both digital-only events, and the more traditional in-person… Read More »Updated dates for major Microsoft-focused tech conferences in H2/2020
I recently received a new laptop from work. It’s a Surface Book 2 (the 15″ model). It’s beyond great, although I’ve used it less in… Read More »Security awareness: Are you using separate laptops for work and personal use?
Last week I delivered a webinar together with Stephane Lapointe with support from ShareGate on Azure Policy essentials. The webinar walked through the essence of… Read More »Azure Policy essentials: The webinar recording is now available
Part of my work at Microsoft is to support and sponsor community- and partner-driven events, and also our own events. We refer to these as… Read More »Events are becoming digital-only – and that’s generally a good thing!
It’s been three weeks since we saw drastic measures throughout the EU region to fight the coronavirus situation. In Italy, the situation has been much… Read More »Working from Home – reflections during the coronavirus crisis
A few years ago, all customers and partners I met with stated more or less the same introductory sentence, “We build hybrid solutions.” The implication… Read More »Building a hybrid governance solution using Azure Arc
The ability to work from home, at the office, in coffee shops and practically anywhere allows you to take your office with you. I’ve worked… Read More »What’s in your bag?
In times like these, it’s important to think about how you can help the ones in immediate need within your community and at large. The… Read More »I’m supporting the Hack the Crisis virtual hackathon
About a year ago I wrote about the Plantronics Voyager Focus UC headset I’m using at home (and when traveling). It’s a premium headset with… Read More »Review: Plantronics (Poly) Calisto 7200, a Bluetooth speakerphone for the home office
A quick note that I’m happy to be a co-host for an upcoming webinar on Azure Governance – insights and reflections together with Stephane Lapointe… Read More »Upcoming webinar: Azure Governance – insights and reflections
I’ve worked remotely from 1997, or so. Back then, remote work was considered “working overtime in the evening” and I would do my regular 40… Read More »Building the perfect remote workstation in the cloud
I wrote about building a Raspberry Pi-based weather monitoring systems back in July, 2019. The solution utilizes Ruuvitag bluetooth beacons to measure temperatures and other… Read More »Building a Raspberry Pi-based temperature monitoring solution with Sense HAT LED matrix display and Azure Logic Apps (and some LEGO!)
If you work in tech, you’ve possibly internalized that the technologies, services, platforms and tools you have at your disposal are almost limitless and exciting… Read More »5 things with productivity tools that frustrate me to no end
At home, I run Ubiquity Networks’ Unifi hardware. I wrote briefly about this just recently here, and I also found out the Unifi hardware provides… Read More »Building a site-to-site VPN between Unifi network hardware and Azure