There’s a new team in town and we’re here to connect, listen and advocate on your behalf with the Engineering teams. We’re a specialized group within the "Cloud Developer Advocate" team at Microsoft – BUT there is a big difference ... continue reading

System Center Operations Manager continues to be the tool relied upon by enterprise customers for IT operations and monitoring. Global Service Monitor in SCOM provides the ability to monitor the availability of external web-based applications from multiple locations across the ... continue reading

Current version of Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure. Upgrading Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Services Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) makes it simple to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure. AKS reduces the complexity and operational overhead of managing Kubernetes by offloading much ... continue reading

Happy Saturday to our outstanding readers! Brandon Wilson here with a pointer to some more of the new networking features in Windows Server 2019 coming to you straight from the Windows Core Networking team! In this week’s posting, the discussion ... continue reading

Hello all, Nathan Penn back again to cover one of the more frequently brought up topics: System bootup and user logon performance – Specifically “Is group policy slowing me down in my environment?” Luckily, if we know where to look ... continue reading

Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Cluster Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. Service Fabric also addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud ... continue reading

Hello again everyone! Christopher Scott, Premier Field Engineer here. Recently I have been developing a lot of data insight reports for various datasets and customers and thought I would wrap them up and share the wealth. The first report template ... continue reading

Hello World! Brandon Wilson here with another pointer to some of the new networking features in Windows Server 2019 straight from the Windows Core Networking team! In this week’s posting, the discussion surrounds enhancements to network performance for virtual workloads ... continue reading

Yesterday I was playing with Mimikatz (Hackertool) for Security pen tests and it was not working because Azure Security Center Quarantined the file On my Surface I got an Azure monitoring Agent running Microsoft Azure Security Center Investigation Dashboard The ... continue reading

When the clock strikes twelve…it’s time to get to work. Hello, and welcome back to this ongoing series discussion about Windows Time. My name is Tim Medina, and today we are going to look at some of the configuration items ... continue reading