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Understanding Azure AD Tenants, Users, Groups, and Roles: A Practical Guide
As cloud adoption continues to shape modern IT infrastructures, Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)—now part of Microsoft Entra ID—has become one of the most essential identity and access management (IAM) solutions for organizations. Whether you’re setting up a brand-new cloud environment or managing a hybrid workforce, understanding how Azure AD tenants, users, groups, and roles work is fundamental to keeping your environment secure, organized, and scalable. This guide breaks down each of these components in simple, practical terms, helping you gain the confidence to manage Azure identity services effectively. https://dellenny.com/understanding-azure-ad-tenants-users-groups-and-roles-a-practical-guide/How to Implement Azure AD Conditional Access Policies Step-by-Step
In today’s cloud-first world, identity is the new security perimeter. With employees logging in from different devices, locations, and networks, traditional access control is no longer enough. This is where Azure AD (now Microsoft Entra ID) Conditional Access comes in. It allows organizations to enforce automated decision-making about who can access what, under which conditions, and using which devices. If you’ve ever wondered how to configure Conditional Access the right way, without breaking user access or causing downtime, this guide walks you through the process https://dellenny.com/how-to-implement-azure-ad-conditional-access-policies-step-by-step/Managing Azure AD Identity Protection: Detecting and Mitigating Risky Sign-ins
In today’s digital landscape, securing user identities is more critical than ever. Organizations leveraging cloud services, especially Microsoft Azure, face an increasing number of identity-based threats, including account compromise, phishing attacks, and unauthorized access. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Identity Protection provides a robust set of tools to help IT teams detect, investigate, and mitigate risky sign-ins effectively. In this blog, we’ll explore how to manage Azure AD Identity Protection, detect risky sign-ins, and implement strategies to minimize security risks. https://dellenny.com/managing-azure-ad-identity-protection-detecting-and-mitigating-risky-sign-ins/The Role of a Software Architect in Modern Teams
In today’s fast-moving technology landscape, the role of a software architect is more important — and more nuanced — than ever before. Far from being just the “technical visionary,” modern software architects serve as bridge builders between technology, business goals, and people. They ensure that software systems are scalable, reliable, and aligned with the long-term vision of the organization. Let’s explore how this role has evolved and why it’s so critical in modern teams https://dellenny.com/the-role-of-a-software-architect-in-modern-teams/What Is Software Architecture? A Practical Definition
If you’ve ever worked on a software project that grew beyond a few files, you’ve likely run into a question that every developer eventually faces: How should this be structured? That’s where software architecture comes in. https://dellenny.com/what-is-software-architecture-a-practical-definition/Azure Enterprise-Scale Landing Zone Building a Future-Ready Cloud Foundation
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, enterprises are under constant pressure to innovate, scale efficiently, and maintain governance and security across their cloud environments. Microsoft Azure’s Enterprise-Scale Landing Zone (ESLZ) provides the blueprint organizations need to accelerate their cloud adoption journey while maintaining control, compliance, and agility. https://dellenny.com/azure-enterprise-scale-landing-zone-building-a-future-ready-cloud-foundation/What Microsoft Entra Really Means for Identity and Security
In recent years, identity has become the new perimeter. As users, devices, and applications shift beyond the walls of data centers, the classic castle-and-moat network model no longer suffices. Security increasingly hinges on who or what is accessing resources, how they authenticate, and under what conditions access is granted. Microsoft’s launch of Microsoft Entra signals a more aggressive posture in identity, access, and zero-trust thinking. It’s not just renaming Azure Active Directory; it’s a re-alignment of how Microsoft sees identity in a hybrid, multi-cloud, and AI-driven world. So: what does Microsoft Entra really mean — beyond the marketing — for identity and security? https://dellenny.com/what-microsoft-entra-really-means-for-identity-and-security/The Hybrid Cloud Playbook Mastering Azure Stack
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations face a critical challenge: how to balance the agility and scalability of the public cloud with the control and compliance benefits of on-premises infrastructure. Enter Azure Stack, Microsoft’s hybrid cloud solution, designed to bring the power of Azure into your datacenter while enabling seamless integration with the public cloud. This blog serves as your playbook for mastering Azure Stack, guiding you through key concepts, strategies, and best practices to help your organization thrive in a hybrid cloud environment. https://dellenny.com/the-hybrid-cloud-playbook-mastering-azure-stack/
Network Design Ideas for VMs
I am analyzing the current Azure environment at my new job and trying to figure out the architectural choices mostly networking wise. Currently, we have 10 VMs and each VM has its own VNet and they are all in the same region. In my experience so far, I have never seen such network design in Azure before.
