To set up a shielded virtual machine template on a Hyper-V guarded fabric, you need to prepare a secure environment (Host Guardian Service, guarded hosts) and then create a BitLocker-protected, signe...

In this episode of E2E:10-Minute Drill, host Pierre Roman sits down with Will Gries, Principal PM in Azure Storage, to explore the newly released Azure Files Provisioned V2 billing model. This model ...

In the latest episode of E2E: 10-minute Drill, I sat down with Vamshi from the Azure Storage team to explore how Azure Blob Storage is fueling the AI revolution. From training massive foundation mode...

When you see the error "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process," you can use several built-in or free tools to find out which process is locking the file or fo...

We're pleased to announce the new "Preparing for your organization's AI workloads" Microsoft Learn Plan - focused the IT/Ops audience and now available on Microsoft Learn! This set of content was c...

Virtual Trusted Platform Modules (vTPM) in Hyper-V allow you to run guest operating systems, such as Windows 11 or Windows Server 2025 with security features enabled. One of the challenges of vTPMs i...

GPU Partitioning (GPU-P) is a feature in Windows Server 2025 Hyper-V that allows multiple virtual machines to share a single physical GPU by dividing it into isolated fractions. Each VM is allocated ...

In this guide, we will walk through creating a 2-node or 4-node Hyper-V failover cluster where the nodes are not domain-joined, using mutual certificate-based authentication instead of NTLM or shared...

Once a user is authenticated through Entra ID, they remain signed in as long as the session is valid—even if they close and reopen the browser. However, in scenarios involving sensitive tasks or high...

A few weeks ago, I spent some time with our support and engineering teams helping a customer solve a problem that happened after they enabled Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) on Azure Kubernetes...