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The power of Power Automate

The power of Power Automate

One of the great things about the Microsoft toolbox is all the ways you can use different tools to save you time. Automation is a great thing and the more we use it, the less we have to do the little mundane tasks. We all find ourselves doing these things. Let’s take a look at a common thing that I have seen in more than a few companies now. John needs to submit a request and have it approved 2…

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What the heck is Azure Kubernetes Service?

What the heck is Azure Kubernetes Service? Let's dive in and look at what makes all the magic happen

Today we are looking at what AKS is anyway. With more and more applications going to containers instead of servers, it is important to know what infrastructure is needed and how it all ties together.

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Azure Network Security

Once we start running workloads in Azure, there will always be the question of security. Azure provides methods for the customer to manage security on the vNets and other resources. By default VM’s when created are locked down to block all incoming traffic. Let’s look at how this is done. Network security groups Virtual networks (VNets) are the foundation of the Azure networking model, and…

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Azure Networking

Come join us as we dive into Azure Networking and traffic flow

Welcome back to the rabbit hole! Today we are looking at how networking is handled in Azure. Come join me as we explain how traffic is flowing. Check out the documentation from the video Routing preference in Azure | Microsoft DocsAzure Virtual Network peering | Microsoft DocsMicrosoft global network – Azure | Microsoft DocsDiagram Software and Flowchart Maker

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Azure Troubleshooting

Azure Troubleshooting tools can be somewhat daunting, let's take a look at what they are.

One of the common things I hear is how people do not know what tools are available to troubleshoot issues in Azure. Come with us as we go over a few of those tools. Hopefully, this helps shed some light on what is available.

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Making Blueprints and Policies work for you

Making Blueprints and Policies work for you

Governance and regulation are one of the biggest things in Azure, yet they often get overlooked. Today we are going to look at how we can use blueprints and policies to apply them.

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Getting started with Virtual Networks

Virtual networks are one of those things we just have to have. Come take a look as we do a quick walkthrough on how to create a virtual network in Azure.

Virtual networks are one of those things we just have to have. Come take a look as we do a quick walkthrough on how to create a virtual network in Azure.

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Getting started with Azure VM's

Let's take a look at how we can get started with our first virtual machine in Azure

Let’s take a look at how we go about creating our first virtual machine in Azure.

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Cloud Computing

Why are we looking at cloud computing? What makes it the go to model for IT departments? Come join us for a video to dive into the why behind Cloud Computing

Why are we looking at cloud computing? What makes it the go to model for IT departments? Come join us for a video to dive into the why behind Cloud Computing

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The Magic of Kubernetes

Kubernetes or k8s is one of those things we always hear about but does not always come into our daily work. In theory it sounds great, build some containers and deploy or run your applications in them

Kubernetes or k8s is one of those things we always hear about but does not always come into our daily work. In theory it sounds great, build some containers and deploy or run your applications in them. So why not just use a container service or just a virtual machine to accomplish the same thing? Well Kubernetes is a cluster that lets you group virtual machines together and use them for…

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Device Management in the new normal

Device Management in the new normal

Since we have seen a massive change in the number of people that are working remotely in today’s world, let’s look at how we are going to deal with that. Since Covid-19 has pushed more and more people into a remote working situation a lot of companies have had to scramble to find a way to deal with this new normal. Most of the time when people talk about working remotely, they focus on VPN…

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File sharing for remote workers

Recently I have seen more and more people looking at ways to operate in this new normal of having everyone working from different locations. It does present an interesting challenge from the sysadmin perspective.

Recently I have seen more and more people looking at ways to operate in this new normal of having everyone working from different locations. It does present an interesting challenge from the sysadmin perspective. How will you provide updates to users and computers when you cannot use GPO to reliable push those updates? In a previous article, we talked about using Intune to do that. Which solves…

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What really happens when you logon

What really happens when you logon

We are all familiar with the windows login process, but do we really understand it? Or is just one of those things that you know how to do? Let’s review the process and see what we can learn.  Logon Process  We press CTRL + ALT + DELETE and enter our username and password. This sends a request to logon to either the SAM database or ADDS and responds with either success or failure.  Simple…

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Troubleshooting Process

In the past we have talked about how to check error logs and discussed looking for root cause of the issue, but how exactly do you find the root cause? Let’s look at how we can achieve this. First, let us look at the process of troubleshooting. Identify the problem Most of the time you will have a symptom of the problem, that is what the users will call in with. This often does not reflect what…

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How to understand an email header

How to understand an email header

Email headers and what you can learn from them Have you gotten someone asking if an email is real? More and more lately, users are receiving phishing or spam emails. As scammers get more sophisticated the phishing attempts get harder and harder to catch. It used to be, you would catch the email by looking for misspelled words or bad grammar. While these can still be an indicator of a phishing…

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Root Cause and where to start

Root Cause and where to start

How often have you had the infamous “my computer is slow” complaint from a user? We all have experienced it, when your computer is running slow or someone calls and you just cannot seem to find what is causing it? How many times have we seen where a technician just runs a computer cleanup or some work around to speed it up? Does it last? Never for very long. So how do we fix it? How do you know…

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Troubleshooting Group Policy

There are a few things that are inevitable in this world. You always hear people say it is death and taxes. I think it is a little different than that though, I think it is Change, and that something will break at the worst possible time. Murphy’s law and all that. In either case, you need to know how to change it or fix it. It works that way for Group Policy too. Someone will either change…