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Are Containers the Future of the Cloud?

I wonder out loud if containers are the future of the cloud, and if other types of infrastructure or platform solutions for running code have a long-term future. Please read what I think and then join the conversation below to let us know your views. How Cloud Is Being Used Now My view of how…

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How to Securely Elevate Privileges in PowerShell Scripts

Last Update: Apr 04, 2022

If you are using PowerShell scripts to automate tasks in your environment, sooner or later, there’s a good chance that you will need to deal with elevating privileges to access resources that require a different set of credentials than those being used to run the script. For example, you might need to access a file…

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Create a VNet-to-VNet VPN using AzureRM PowerShell

Here’s a simple way to create a VNet-to-VNet VPN using Microsoft AzureRM and PowerShell.

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What Is Visual Studio Team Services?

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains what Visual Studio Team Services is and how it compares to GitHub.

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M365 Changelog: Identity Service: Upcoming feature to recover accidentally deleted service principal objects

Last Update: Jun 25, 2023

MC344406 – Microsoft Graph API will soon start supporting the ability to recover accidentally deleted service principal objects. The application object already supports this ability. The update will make the recovery story better for managing the life cycle of applications in your tenant.When this will happen: Microsoft expects to begin rolling out in early April and expect to complete…

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How To Prepare for an App Service Migration

Microsoft’s new tool to assist in cloud migrations can help you, but might be too limited for real world enterprise applications.

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Get Ready to Transform Your Organization’s IT Security: Join Our Free 1-Day Virtual Conference

This week, March 30th at 9.20am ET, Petri is hosting its first free virtual 1-day conference of the year on identity management and privileged access management (PAM). In our 2023 audience survey, IT Pros cited security as their number one concern. And because identity and privilege management form the basis of good security and a…

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How to Validate Applications Using Test Base for Microsoft 365

Test Base for Microsoft 365 is a platform which allows you to script and automate your application compatibility testing. Hosted in Azure, and based on Azure virtual machines, this service allows the easy onboarding of applications through a dedicated area of the Azure portal. To validate apps in Test Base, you should: Sign up for…

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Petri Dish: Talking With Mark Russinovich About Everything Azure

Last Update: Jun 15, 2023

At VeeamOn this week, we have been talking to executives from a couple different companies and was also able to grab time with Azure’s CTO, Mark Russinovich.

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Citrix Managed Desktops Generally Available

Back at its Ignite conference in September 2018, Microsoft announced Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) and Citrix said that it would be creating a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution based on WVD.

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