Endpoint Configuration Manager – Site Server High Availability
Overview Endpoint Configuration Manager (Current Branch), supports high availability configurations through various options, which include but are not limited to the following: Any standalone primary site can now have an additional passive mode.* site server Remote content library* SQL Server ... continue reading

How Azure.com operates on Azure part 2: Technology and architecture
When you’re the company that builds the cloud platforms used by millions of people, your own cloud content needs be served up fast. Azure.com—a complex, cloud-based application that serves millions of people every day—is built entirely from Azure components and ... continue reading
Failover Clustering Networking Basics and Fundamentals
My name is John Marlin and I am with the High Availability and Storage Team here and today I want to talk about Failover Clustering and Networking. Networking is a fundamental key with Failover Clustering that sometimes is overlooked but ... continue reading
Deploy a Windows Server container on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
The Windows Container team announced an update to the Container extension for Windows Admin Center with a couple of new features like pushing Container images to an Azure Container Registry. In this blog post, I want to provide you with ... continue reading

The science behind Microsoft Threat Protection: Attack modeling for finding and stopping evasive ransomware
The linchpin of successful cyberattacks, exemplified by nation state-level attacks and human-operated ransomware, is their ability to find the path of least resistance and progressively move across a compromised network. Determining the full scope and impact of these attacks is ... continue reading
Beyond the Edge: How to Secure SMB Traffic in Windows
Hiya folks, Ned here again. Organizations are good at firewalling the network edge to stop inbound intruders. We need to move on to preventing outbound and lateral network communications. With the rise of mobile computing and ease of phishing users, ... continue reading
Windows Insiders can now test DNS over HTTPS
If you have been waiting to try DNS over HTTPS (DoH) on Windows 10, you're in luck: the first testable version is now available to Windows Insiders! If you haven’t been waiting for it, and are wondering what DoH is ... continue reading

Ransomware groups continue to target healthcare, critical services; here’s how to reduce risk
At a time when remote work is becoming universal and the strain on SecOps, especially in healthcare and critical industries, has never been higher, ransomware actors are unrelenting, continuing their normal operations. Multiple ransomware groups that have been accumulating access ... continue reading
Troubleshooting Azure Arc for Servers – Status Offline
While trying out the capabilities of Azure Arc for Servers, I came across a couple of times when the on-premises virtual machine showed as ‘Offline’ in the Azure Portal. To help troubleshoot this, there’s a command line tool that can ... continue reading

Security guidance for remote desktop adoption
As the volume of remote workers quickly increased over the past two to three months, the IT teams in many companies scrambled to figure out how their infrastructures and technologies would be able to handle the increase in remote connections ... continue reading