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. https://youtu.be/5uD1CNQ9VXA
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. https://youtu.be/_hEn9fIsEjI
Getting started with Azure VM’s
Let's take a look at how we go about creating our first virtual machine in Azure. https://youtu.be/wRbs6Omzgos
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6_BL-wvOW4&t=678s
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. So why not just use a container service or just a virtual machine to accomplish the same thing? …
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 …
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. How will you provide updates to users and computers when you cannot use GPO to reliable push those updates? In a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
