Windows Azure in the Middle East
Just want to share a tool I found. Recently we had to deploy some azure resources to support a client in the Middle East, only to find...
P2P migration using Sysinternals Disk2VHD and VHD2Disk
Having successfully performed P2V migrations, why is there a need to do a P2P migration? In this particular case, the reasons are 1....
Skype Business and the ghost of Live Communications Server
So we were enabling Skype for business for some of our users, and we came upon a strange occurrence. Although the feature is enabled in...
Hyper-V VM Migration using Sysinternals Disk2VHD
Disk2VHD by Sysinternals is an awesome tool not only for doing Hyper-V VM migrations, but for testing and timing your migration window as...
On the SSL certification framework
Came upon this post in Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportgore/comments/4tobss/my_library_wants_me_to_install_a_root_certificate...
Adventures in Azure Backup Server part 2
In order to test the recovery of my backup I created an A1 virtual machine in Azure, added 2 Data disks (2TB HDD space for recovery) and...
On Teamviewer Security
So teamviewer may have been breached. Or maybe not. Maybe people should not use the same passwords between different accounts. For those...
On Publishing RDP to the internet
This graph shows the difference between the attacks on a publicly published RDP server, and one that is not published on port 3389. On...
Adventures in Azure Backup Server
Backing up of the fileshare to Azure Recovery Services Vault (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/backup/) 1. Initial backup was...
Windows Azure and your wallet
Are you keeping track of your Azure consumption? Under MPSA (https://www.microsoft.com/en-sg/Licensing/MPSA/) your azure consumption...