Speaking at Azure APE XXL about Azure Governance Best Practices and Enterprise Scale together with Thomas Naunheim
Yesterday Thomas and I was really honored to be invited to the Azure APE XXL event in Appeldorn, Netherlands.
MS Ignite 2024 Recap
On my way home from a very inspiring Microsoft Ignite, which I was able to attend in person for the first time. Microsoft Ignite 2024 took place in Chicago at McCormick Place, a very large convention center near Lake Michigan. The conference started on Monday with a Preday, where Microsoft Ignite attendees had the opportunity …
Speaking at NICConf 2024 in Oslo about Microsoft Defender for CSPM and Hybrid Cloud with WS2025, Azure Arc and WAC
I´m thrilled to announce that I have been invited to the Nordic Infrastructure Conference in Oslo, the NICconf, for the second time. NICconf is a two-day event in the heart of Oslo with around 3000 particioants, focusing on Microsoft technologies such as Azure, Hybrid Cloud, Identity and Security. There will also be a pre-day organized …
Microsoft enforces MFA requirements for user login to Azure portal for all tenants
Password spray attacks on accounts have increased rapidly in recent months. As a result, the security risks for accounts that do not use MFA for authentication have increased significantly. Microsoft works in the past on different ways to enable MFA for all users they work with Azure and Microsoft 365. One first try was the …
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Awarded as Microsoft MVP for Azure and Microsoft Security 2024-2025
I am pleased to announce that I have once again been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for Azure and Security in 2024-2025. This year there were some internal changes and the announcement was therefore postponed to July 10. So late Wednesday the mail came and I saw, just before my birthday, that I was again …
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Awarded as Defender for Cloud Champion and as Community Advocate 2024
The Microsoft Security Community programm continues to grow and there are many exiting new features and additional previews coming to live. I´m working on some of the new previews to gain insights and provide feedback and there are really great new offerings coming. I`m happy to share that I was awarded as Defender for Cloud …
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Guest on Geeksprech Podcast about FinOps and/or Azure Cost Management (Governance)
In 2023 I was at some conferences where I held a session about Azure Cost Management and I´ve discussed this topic also a couple of times with my best buddy Eric Berg. He invited me to his podcast Geeksprech where we talked and discuss what FinOps is and why in some cases it`s the same …
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Speaking at Windows Server Engineering Summit 2024
With the announcement of the next Windows Server release, called Windows Server 2025, Microsoft decided to organize the next Windows Server Engineering Summit. The Windows Server Summit 2024 will take place March 26-28, 2024, 8 AM – 4 PM Pacific Time with many sessions around Windows Server solutions. I´m happy to be invited to hold …
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The new Azure Update Manager is GA – Part 2 – How it works and the valuable new features
In the first part of this article (Three-big-reasons-to-migrate-to-update-manager-and-forget-the-classic-update-management-center) I dived into the improvements and reasons why Micrsoft introduce Azure Update Manager as a successor of the classic Update Management Center solution based on Azure Automation. In this part, I will explain how it works and what major improvements and new functions the Azure Update Manager …
Enable granular pricing for Defender for Servers P1 or P2 on specific resources within your subscription via API/Powershell
Microsoft model for a scalable Cloud Adtoption is based on the Enterprise Scale Architecture and I think this is a scalable and useful modell for every customer that uses Azure ressources. It´s based on the definition to granulary devide the workloads in different subscriptions and gives via Management Groups the possibility to group this differnent …