The other day I posted a blog on how to deploy an AKS cluster that is ready for Windows workloads using Terraform. Today, I wanted to expand that to include gMSA, which is a highly requested feature from Windows customers ... continue reading

Introducing the new centrally managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server.Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of centrally managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server, a new Azure portal feature that helps you improve SQL Server license management ... continue reading

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has detected destructive operations enabled by MERCURY, a nation-state actor linked to the Iranian government, that attacked both on-premises and cloud environments. While the threat actors attempted to masquerade the activity as a standard ransomware campaign, the ... continue reading

This guide provides steps organizations can take to assess whether users have been targeted or compromised by threat actors exploiting CVE-2023-23397. A successful exploit of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to an organization’s environment by triggering a Net-NTLMv2 ... continue reading

Microsoft Azure knows SQL Server best and will support your cloud migration at no cost for qualifying scenarios.The SQL Server platform has been successfully driving transformative business results with Microsoft customers across industries for over 25 years, enabling breakthrough innovation ... continue reading

Introduction With every company, across every industry, digitally transforming, tons of modern applications are built at an unprecedented pace and speed, and all rely on the underlying network infrastructure. Networking enables application components to communicate with each other, its dependencies, ... continue reading

Hi, Jonas here! Or as we say in the north of Germany: "Moin Moin!"I’m a Microsoft Senior Cloud Solution Architect – Engineering (or short Sr. CSA-E) and in this article I want to talk about how to automate the hybrid world. Over ... continue reading

  Q: How can I determine if objects in my AD environment are impacted by the November 8th 2022 patch? A: Use a couple of queries I wrote specifically for that purpose.   November 8th, 2022 brought us a patch ... continue reading

Command-and-control (C2) servers are an essential part of ransomware, commodity, and nation-state attacks. They are used to control infected devices and perform malicious activities like downloading and launching payloads, controlling botnets, or commanding post-exploitation penetration frameworks to breach an organization ... continue reading

In recent months, Microsoft has detected active ransomware and extortion campaigns impacting the global education sector, particularly in the US, by a threat actor we track as DEV-0832, also known as Vice Society. Shifting ransomware payloads over time from BlackCat, ... continue reading