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Encrypting a Windows VM with Azure CLI and PowerShell

The importance of data encryption cannot be overstated, and this is even more crucial with cloud-based workloads. Now, more often than not, the default settings do include some level of encryption ...

Deploying a Linux VM on Azure Using Terraform

As the date for my AZ-305: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification nears (well, I can already take the assessment, as it becomes available six months before the expiration date) I feel I sho...

Onboarding New Customers With Azure Lighthouse

Azure Lighthouse is a name I heard a while back, and while the concept was easy to grasp and even using it once set up wasn’t too complicated, I’ve never actually set one up myself. I recently got ...

Enabling VLANs on Unraid VMs

Just a quick post on something I was struggling with recently, as the whole thing seemed unintuitive. At least compared to Proxmox, where you just drop the VLAN tag during VM/LXC creation and off y...

On the Importance of Cost Management and Alerting in the Cloud

A year ago, I wrote a bit about Azure Arc and its use for non-Azure host management, and I also mentioned that the service was free at the time. And while it still is for the most part, update mana...

Leveraging Azure Blob Storage and Archive Tier for Efficient Long-Term Personal Backups

My on-premises (read, at home) file server recently crossed a total, parity-protected storage of 70 TB, and that’s starting to make me a little uncomfortable, but at the same time I fully understan...

MS Learn Exercise - Send and Receive Message From Azure Service Bus Queue Using .NET

Lately I’ve been going through the MS Learn modules for the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam in preparation for the actual exam which I’ll be taking in a month or so,...

Identifying Security Threats on On-Premises Linux Servers with Microsoft Sentinel

A little while ago I wrote about adding on-premises servers or virtual servers to your tenant using Azure Arc, and in the article touched a little on Defender for Cloud and using it to protect work...

Storing Custom Encryption Keys in Azure Key Vault for VM Encryption

In my ongoing quest to turn assigned tasks into deeper dives into learning opportunities and blog content, this time I’m looking at enabling encryption on Azure resources, more specifically on VM d...

How to Get Started with Azure Arc and Azure Defender for Cloud

The other day like a week ago now, gosh, I took part in a webinar that gave an overview of Azure Arc and Azure Sentinel, and while I’ve recently been somewhat busy with Sentinel related things in g...