I was reading an article on The Stack a few weeks ago (https://www.thestack.technology/warren-buffetts-geico-repatriates-work-from-the-cloud-continues-ambitious-infrastructure-overhaul/), which was talking about their cloud journey, and more importantly about a recent decision to move some workloads back from the cloud to on-premises, the main reason provided in this article for the move was cost and complexity related to storage, and... Continue Reading →
Understanding Zero Trust in the Microsoft Cloud: Part 2
Foundational Components, Identity in a Zero-Trust model. As discussed in Part 1, Zero-Trust is a security model that relies on the key principle of Never Trust, Always Validate. This means that, in effect, you assume that your estate has already been breached, and users, devices and applications must be continuously challenged and monitored. In this... Continue Reading →
This week in Azure
This week in Azure Microsoft rolls back change to Azure AD Graph API Microsoft announced in March and again this week that due to user feedback the planned decommissioning of the Azure AD Graph API, originally scheduled for the 30th of June 2022 will be delayed until the end of the year
Moving Azure Subscriptions to another Tenant/Directory
As I think I mentioned in an earlier post I have a couple of subscriptions which are tied to different MSDN subscriptions/tenants. Up to now when I wanted to switch subscriptions I used to just either sign in to the other account or add user accounts to each of the subscriptions. However, this was a... Continue Reading →
Azure Preview Portal (Who knew….. well not me anyway.)
I am not sure how I missed this, or if it is a relatively new thing, but there is a preview portal available for those of us who like to use the portal over, say PowerShell.