14Apr2016
11Apr2016
How to Replicate Hyper-V VMs to Azure Site Recovery
We have already seen how to setup an Azure Virtual Network for less than $100.00 USD / month in our previous article. Today we are going to see just how easy it is to turn this network into a fully functional DR site using Azure Site Recovery at a...
07Apr2016
Extend Your On-premises Network with Azure Virtual Network
One of my favorite use cases for Azure Virtual Networks and Azure Virtual Machines is to create a secondary (DR) site for a fraction of what it would cost to build your own co-location. With one of the smaller-sized basic or even standard tier VM's to act as a backup Domain Controller, the...
04Apr2016
A Crash Course in Azure VMs
So you got that Azure trial subscription and deployed your first virtual machine in just a few clicks--good for you! As you proceeded through the deployment, no doubt you would have been asked about stuff like deployment models, resource groups, locations, affinity groups, storage accounts, cloud services and more....
31Mar2016
Comparing Costs: Azure IaaS vs. On-Premises Server Hardware
Most people do not compare costs of running infrastructure in Azure to traditional on-premises deployments appropriately. To begin with, it is almost impossible to compare them apples-to-apples. For example: as soon as you deploy a VM in Azure, all of your data will be written into 3 different storage locations by default. If you select...
24Mar2016
It Could Still Happen to You: How to Get Through a Digital Recovery Effort
You can never assume that you’re safe just because you’re sitting behind a next-generation firewall and some fancy, expensive security software. If you’re familiar with my post about not being an Internet idiot, then congratulations, you have all the information you need to be way safer than about 95%...
24Mar2016
What is Advanced Threat Analytics?
Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) is a security product from Microsoft that is included with the Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) subscription.  Unlike most of the other EMS components that tend to be a bit more cloud-centric, ATA is an on-premises-based security solution that helps identify Advanced Persistent Threats (APT's) and insider threats before they can cause...
21Mar2016
How to not be an idiot on the Internet
There was a really funny security article circulated a few years ago after the crypto-variant viruses first started becoming a widespread problem; I wish I could remember who had written it, and if I could find it again I would link to it here and give them due credit. I tried searching for...
17Mar2016
How to Enable Information Rights Management for SharePoint Online & OneDrive for Business
This is a four-part post on Azure Rights Management for Office 365. The Azure RMS service is a powerful tool that we can use to prevent data leakage and share information securely with users inside & outside of the organization. Follow along as we explore how to: Activate Azure Rights Management for Office 365 ...
14Mar2016