Category Archives: Azure Governance

Allgemein, Azure, Azure Arc, Azure Governance, Azure Security, Cloud, Community, Defender for Cloud, Events, Microsoft, Windows Server 2025

Speaking at NICConf 2024 in Oslo about Microsoft Defender for CSPM and Hybrid Cloud with WS2025, Azure Arc and WAC

2024-11-06 Gregor Reimling Leave a comment

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 where attendees can participate in different masterclasses (full day workshops). There will be a masterclass by Paula Januszkiewics or Mikael Nyström and Viktor Hedberg,

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Allgemein, Azure, Azure Governance, Cloud, Community, Microsoft

Guest on Geeksprech Podcast about FinOps and/or Azure Cost Management (Governance)

2024-03-26 Gregor Reimling Leave a comment

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 as cloud governance and cost management without the melodious and modern name 🙂

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Allgemein, Azure, Azure File Sync, Azure Governance, Azure Migrate, Cloud, Community, Microsoft, Windows Admin Center, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022

Speaking at Windows Server Engineering Summit 2024

2024-03-20 Gregor Reimling Leave a comment

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 two sessions, which I think are really important and value from Management and Migration purposes.

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Allgemein, Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure Arc, Azure Governance, Azure Security, Azure Sentinel, Azure Virtual Desktop, Cloud, Community, Events, Microsoft

Speaking at Experts Live Netherlands 2022

2022-09-28 Gregor Reimling Leave a comment

The full event month of September is slowly coming to an end and what better way to end it than with a great Azure conference? I´m really happy to announce that I will speak at the Experts Live Netherlands. The Experts Live Netherlands is one of the biggest Experts Live conferences next to Experts Live Europe and celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.

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Allgemein, Azure, Azure Arc, Azure Governance, Azure Security, Cloud, Community, Events, Microsoft

Speaking at Scottish Summit 2021 about Azure Policy and Azure Security Center

2021-02-26 Gregor Reimling Leave a comment

I am pleased to have received an invitation to speak at the upcoming Scottish Summit 2021. The Scottish Summit was estabhlished in 2020. This year the conference is becoming an online-only conference and will be streamed on all social media channels. The conference itself is growing into a really big conference with many parallel tracks with different language. The main conference starts on Saturday 27/02/21 and there will be many sessions on Microsoft Cloud services (like Azure, M365 and so on).

Azure Governance is an important topic for any customer using cloud resources. In my session, I will show the power of Azure Policy and Azure Security Center to define guardrails for your Azure environment and bring it into a compliant and secure state. I will go live with my session at Saturday 27/02/21 starting 1PM. If you are interested in how Azure Policy and Azure Security Center work together and how these services are handled, please feel free to join my session and ask questions.

There are quite a few Microsoft Cloud sessions planned for the Conference. Go to the website, plan your agenda and grab your ticket. There’s also an App available for iOS and Android. I hope to see you there.

Allgemein, Azure Governance, Cloud, Community, Events, Microsoft

Speaking at Azure Saturday Hamburg 2021 together with Thomas Naunheim

2021-01-25 Gregor Reimling 1 Comment

In the past Thomas Naunheim (Thomas Blog) and I have worked on several Cloud projects focusing on Azure Governance and Enterprise Scale. We decided to create a session together to integrate the best of both worlds and our experiences and recommendations from the field.

Our agenda:

Overview of Cloud Adoption Framework
Overview of Well-architecture Framework
Management of Compliance and Security Status
Azure Enterprise-Scale Landing Zone
Azure Ops: “Operationalize” Azure environment at scale

We are very happy to announce that our session was accepted by the Azure Saturday Hamburg Team on 20/02/2021. The Azure Saturday Hamburg is a full, free Azure conference day with lot of great sessions. The event will have two different tracks and the first speakers and sessions have been announced. Take a look at the agenda and sign up for this great conference across different sessions from the Azure Cosmos.

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Allgemein, Azure, Azure Automanage, Azure Backup, Azure Bastion, Azure Governance, Azure Monitor, Azure Network, Azure Security, Azure VM, Cloud, Community, Microsoft, Windows Server

Azure VM Best Practices

2020-12-21 Gregor Reimling 6 Comments

Last year Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper launched the Azure Advent Calendar and I got to support with a session on Azure Bastion. This year they improved on the idea with the Festive Tech Calendar. I’m happy to be back with an article on Azure VM best practices. I hope you find the article helpful and I would appreciate feedback.

Over the past few months, I have conducted many customer workshops, designed and implemented Landing Zones, and migrated or placed VMs into Azure. One of the most common customer questions has been about best practices for Azure VMs to maximize performance and efficiency, minimize costs, increase security, and reduce management overhead. This article is based on my real-world experience and recommendations based on several Azure projects.

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Allgemein, Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure Governance, Azure Security, Cloud, Community, Meetup, Microsoft

Speaking with Thomas Naunheim at GermanyClouds Meetup about Azure Governance Best Practices

2020-11-26 Gregor Reimling Leave a comment

In the past Thomas Naunheim and I do a lot of architecture and designing prinicple for integrating Azure in company environments. We have the idea to create a Azure Governance Best Practices session in the last couple of months to give the community our insights and best practices for Starting/Integrating Azure environments. The goal is to give you insights, where you can find the best documentations to start with a Cloud journey and which technical Azure features help to bring and hold your environment in an compliant and secure state.

The session contains the following topics:

Cloud Adoption Framework
Well-architecture Framework
Insights about Azure Policies and Azure Security Center
Azure Enterprise Scale architecture
Azure Ops
Identity and Access Management

We are exited to hold the session at the GermanyClouds Meetup on november 26. Did you interested in this topics or you are in the beginning or implementig phase, join us. We will happy to see you there and get your questions.

The session will not been recorded.

Allgemein, Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure Governance, Azure Security, Cloud, Community, Events, Meetup, Microsoft

IdentitySummit 2020 is over – Thank you

2020-10-30 Gregor Reimling Leave a comment

Our 1st IdentitySummit is over and we had a amazing Summit with our powerfull Speakers and our attendees.

We (Azure Bonn Orga Team) started planning the Summit in March 2020. The Orga Team from the AzureBonn Meetup consists of Melanie Eibl, Thomas Naunheim and René de la Motte. The idea came from Thomas (our Identity Expert) and we can say that was a wonderful idea.

We meet together at the Debeka Innovation Center (DICE) in Koblenz to organize and streaming all the sessions from one central place. The current Corona situation has unfortunately not made a complete live event possible, so we have met under the rules in force to ensure a smooth process and bring a little live feeling.

Now after 6 session in 2 parallel Tracks we can say it was worth every minute of planning – Why?

The answer is simple: First of all because of our great speakers. Each session was planned with a minimum of 300, and each session went deep into the relevant topics, showing what needs to be considered, the pitfalls and best practices available.

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Allgemein, Azure Blueprints, Azure Governance, Cloud, Management Groups, Microsoft

Azure Management Groups und Blueprints – Ueberblick und Einrichtung – Teil 2

2019-04-23 Gregor Reimling Leave a comment

Im ersten Teil habe ich vorgestellt, warum ein Azure Governance Konzept sinnvoll ist, wie sich Management Groups als organisatorisches Mittel in Azure dafür nutzen lassen und warum diese für Azure Blueprints als Vorraussetzung notwendig sind. Im 2. Teil werde ich nun zeigen, was Azure Blueprints sind, wie sich diese einrichten lassen und was beim erzeugen einer neuen Subscription passiert, wenn ein Azure Blueprint darauf angewandt wird.

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