Hello Folks! If you have ever inherited a sprawling Azure environment and quietly wondered whether every VM, database, AKS cluster, and storage account in it is actually being backed up the way the...

Hello Folks  If you have ever stared at a multi-tier app in Azure and asked yourself, “Is this actually going to survive a zone outage?”, you are not alone. In session MAIS23 of the Microsoft Azure...

Hello Folks! If you have ever tried to move a few hundred VMs, a pile of databases, and a couple of web apps from on-prem to Azure, you already know the hard part is not the tooling. The hard par...

Hello Folks! It’s 3 a.m. Your phone lights up. A critical workload that spans multiple clouds is on fire, ownership is fuzzy, the alert routed to the wrong team first, and now it’s your problem. Yo...

Hello Folks! If you have ever spent a long afternoon untangling overlapping CIDR ranges, chasing down a broken VNet peering, or trying to remember which UDR points to which firewall, this MAIS 2026...

Hello Folks! If you have ever wrestled with Azure Files inside a storage account, juggling shared RBAC, shared networking, and shared IOPS across a pile of shares that really should not live togeth...

In this post I go over some tools and techniques exist for hardening Windows Server. As always, apply controls according to the server's role, test them against representative workloads before produc...

Hello Folks! If you have ever opened your monthly Azure invoice, stared at the object storage line, and quietly wondered how it grew so much, this one is for you. At the Microsoft Azure Infra Summi...

Hello Folks! If you are running AI workloads on Azure, you have probably learned the hard way that the wrong storage choice can leave a rack of very expensive GPUs sitting idle, waiting for data. I...

Hello Folks! If you have been running Premium SSD v1 because that is just what you have always done, this session from the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 is going to be a wake up call. Raymond L...