Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (May 2023)
Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. These posts are only intended to be your guide, to lead you to some content of interest, and are just a way we are trying ... continue reading
Azure Cost Management Dashboard
Author introduction Hi, I am Saira Shaik, Working Principal customer success account manager at Microsoft India. Azure Cost Management Dashboard I created this Dashboard to display the units consumed and the respective cost for Selected filters. This Dashboard ... continue reading
Bitlocker is not resuming after reboot count has been reached
Hi, I'm Helmut Wagensonner, a Cloud Solution Architect Engineer at Microsoft. Recently, I ran into an unexpected Bitlocker behavior at a customer. It turned out that this behavior is on purpose so I thought I let you know about ... continue reading

Guidance for investigating attacks using CVE-2022-21894: The BlackLotus campaign
This guide provides steps that organizations can take to assess whether users have been targeted or compromised by threat actors exploiting CVE-2022-21894 via a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackLotus. UEFI bootkits are particularly dangerous as they run ... continue reading
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (March 2023)
Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. These posts are only intended to be your guide, to lead you to some content of interest, and are just a way we are ... continue reading
Don’t miss us at Microsoft Secure & Gartner IAM
Event season is approaching! Our team is looking forward to seeing you all at Gartner Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Microsoft Secure this month! Check out our identity sessions below: Gartner Identity & Access Management Microsoft will be participating ... continue reading
How To Upgrade/Change the Operating System Which Hosts Microsoft Configuration Manager
Hello! My name is Herbert Fuchs and together with other members of the Customer Success Unit and the Customer Service & Support Organization we want to help our Customers with This Blog-Series. We gathered information and put our field and ... continue reading
Field tips for AKS storage provisioning
Introduction In an Azure Kubernetes (AKS) cluster, Pods can access physical storage resources such as disks or volumes using Persistent Volumes (PV). To use these resources, Pods need to make a Persistent Volume Claim (PVC), which requests a specific amount ... continue reading

SQL Server 2022: Intel® QuickAssist Technology overview
Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced addingWITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup compression provides the compressed backup option for all streaming SQL ... continue reading

Azure Managed Lustre—Parallel file system for HPC and AI workloads
Today, Microsoft is announcing the public preview of Azure Managed Lustre, a new addition to the storage offerings in our Azure HPC + AI solution. Lustre is an open-source parallel file system renowned for high-performance computing (HPC) and is adept ... continue reading