Another day, another outage by a major cloud provider. Apple is currently experiencing a major outage which seems to be getting worse. Starting at...
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Is Azure Active Directory Microsoft’s weakest link?
How can there be a single point of failure in a service that runs the entire Microsoft cloud? Yesterday, there was a global outage of Azure Active...
Azure AD is Down Blocking Access to Azure, Teams, and more! – September 28, 2020 Microsoft Azure Outage
At approximately 21:25 UTC on September 28, 2020, the Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) started experiencing a global outage causing many...
Microsoft Edge Browser Coming to Linux
Microsoft has been increasingly supporting Linux, and the latest application coming to Linux is the Microsoft Edge web browser. About a year ago we...
Pentagon stays with Microsoft for $10 Billion JEDI Contract, Sorry Not Sorry Amazon
Today, the Pentagon stated that the US Department of Defense will be staying with their previous decision to award the $10 Billion JEDI (Joint...
Easy to Use VPN with OpenVPN in Azure
Security and Privacy are key in todays digital first world. Setting up a VPN with OpenVPN in Microsoft Azure offers a fairly simple method to add an...
Sysinternals ProcDump for Linux
Sysinternals are very widely used tools from Microsoft in the Windows world, and now the ProcDump utility has been ported over to Linux as an Open...
Add New Root User to Ubuntu Linux Server using Bash
When installing Ubuntu, or any Linux distro, a root user will be created. However, there are many times when you need to create additional users...
Host Static Web Apps in Azure App Service
Modern web applications are shifting more towards a static html/css architecture that leverages RESTful APIs as the backend data services....
Windows Gets Package Manager with winget CLI Utility
Microsoft released the new Windows Package Manager (winget) as an open source, community driven package manager for installing, updating,...
Azure Announcements from Microsoft Build 2020
Microsoft made a lot of announcements with their Microsoft Build 2020 event that kicked off today. The event included TONS of updates and...
Should Microsoft acquire Canonical / Ubuntu?
Microsoft's adoption of Linux today is something that appeared to never be possible only a few years ago. It was not even twenty years ago when...
Docker development VM in Azure
Ever wish you had a Docker dev workstation in Azure? About two months ago, we introduced the Azure Kung Fu VM, and judging by the views of that...
Saving Money with Azure Dev/Test Subscriptions
Did you know that you can have significant savings on Dev/Test environments in Azure? I'm working with the Azure Dev/Test team on a project right...
Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
For the last few years, Microsoft has stated during event keynotes and in other places that Linux is a rapidly growing operating system (OS) being...
CompTIA Linux+ XK0-004 Certification Exam
In the modern world of IT, Linux has been growing in popularity and use. This is especially something we are seeing in the cloud, where even...
Upgrading Ubuntu Linux Version
There are several ways to upgrade a Linux installation. With Ubuntu, the recommended upgrade method is to use the do-release-upgrade command. This...
Block Ads, Trackers, and NSFW Sites on Your Network using Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi
Pi-hole is free and open source software for setting up a DNS (Domain Name Service) and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server with...
Jumpstart: Open the Network Connections Tab in Windows
TLDR: Start-->Run-->ncpa.cpl Have you ever lost 6 minutes of your life trying to find a network adapter in Windows? Yeah, me too. Windows...
Policy-Based Routing on Unifi USG PRO 4
As an Azure MVP, I spent a lot of time teaching and giving webinars on the topic of moving to the cloud. A few months ago, I started to experience...
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