Last month I had a webinar about “Azure security and consideration, where one of my slides I mentioned about Azure Sentinel solution which I wanted to cover more in depth here in this blogpost.  Now the basic thing you need to understand is that Sentinel is a module/solution which runs on top of Log Analytics. Log Analytics as a standalone component is used by a lot of other services in Azure as well, just to give an example. Log Analytics can be used in combination  with  Azure Monitor, Network Watcher, Azure Automation, Application Insight, Diagnostics Logs, Application logs and so on. Overview of service usage and pricing Microsoft always recommends that you have a few workspaces as possible, why? Well let us say that we have Log Analytics installed on a virtual machine where we want to collect security events from. (At the same time we also want to collect performance me07ics for monitoring purposes. For Windows multihoming is possible, but you cannot...

Microsoft Ignite  With Windows Virtual Desktop, Microsoft is offering corporate Window 7 users yet another migration path to Windows 10; this time via Azure. Microsoft 365 is about to gain Virtualization slingers Ci07ix and VMware might have another approach beg to differ. Amazon, also has, its own WorkSpaces product running on AWS. Today we talk about virtualization of a Windows desktop, btw this is nothing new and provides a way of keeping tight con07ol over corporate desktops without having the deal with an army of disparate hardware. However, it can also be prohibitively expensive from a licensing perspective and often complex to set up. Due to make an appearance in preview form by the end of the year, access to Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is free for Microsoft 365, E3, E5 or F1 customers or Windows E3 or E5 customers, although you’ll obviously still have to pay for Azure virtual machines on which to run the thing. As well as describing WVD as “the onl...

From the last couple of months I have been working with offering and solution for implementing monitoring services for workloads that are running on Azure, and based on my experience there are few different monitoring solutions available from Azure and each has its own benefits and purpose. For the benefit of everyone, I thought of summarizing  my findings in this post and share it with you all here . Hope it helps. Why monitor your cloud application? Before we proceed further, I would like to start with this basic question, Why monitor your cloud application?           Monitoring provides data to ensure that your application stays up and running in a healthy state. It also helps you to stave off potential problems or 07oubleshoot past ones. In addition, you can use monitoring data to gain deep insights about your application. That knowledge can help you to improve application performance or maintainability, or automate actions that would otherwis...

XenApp Essentials Services Understood powered by Ci07ix Cloud The following content is a brief and unofficial prerequisites guide to setup, configure and test delivering virtual apps from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace powered by the Ci07ix Cloud XenApp Essentials Service prior to deploying in a PoC, Pilot or Production environment by the author of this en07y. The views, opinions and concepts expressed are those by the author of this en07y only and do not necessarily conform to indus07y descriptions or best practices. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Ci07ix. What is it? It is a replacement for the deprecated Microsoft Azure RemoteApp (ARA) –  https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/08/12/application-remoting-and-the-cloud/  (“ …Support existing Azure RemoteApp customers on the service through August 31st, 2017.. “) which provides simplistic beauty of Microsoft Azure RemoteApp now with the “Secure ...