Hello Folks! If you have ever been asked to move all our file shares to the cloud ASAP. You already know that storage migration is one of those projects that looks easy on a slide and gets ugly in reality. In this session at the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Anusha Subramanian and Madhuri Narayana […]
Laps for Azure Arc Hear from Windows Server product leaders on recent innovations and updates in Windows Server 2025, hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios enabled by Azure Arc, and best practices and real‑world considerations to help you run a more secure, resilient, and modern cloud-to-edge infrastructure Innovation of Windows Server Hyper-V Windows Server & Hyper‑V: Key
The S2D Campus Cluster is a new configuration that is supported on Windows Server 2025 with the 2025-12 Security Update (KB5072033) (26100.7462) – increasing high availability for Hyper-V VMs, SQL Server FCI, File Servers, SAP, and other applications installed on bare metal between two rooms or buildings in the same campus. With this configuration, you
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Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and SAN storage can now operate side-by-side in the same single rack failover cluster – so you can take advantage of S2D speed for some volumes, and SAN features for OTHER volumes. This allows you to run Hyper-V VMs or SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) scenarios on fast S2D storage
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In today’s digital era, especially across Europe, trust, compliance, data residency, and operational transparency are now as critical as performance, scalability, and innovation. Organizations migrating heavy workloads, especially AI workloads, want more than “just a cloud” — they want to be able to say: “Yes, we control our data, our location, our keys, and our
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Introduction In today’s AI-driven world, many organizations and IT professionals are looking for local, offline, secure AI deployments rather than relying solely on the cloud. With Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry Local, you can now run models on-premises or on-device, keeping your data private, performance high, and latency low. This post walks you through how to
Hello everyone! Today we have a guest author, Cameron Peppers, who is a Cloud Solution Architect working with our On-Prem VMWare Migration program/field team. He has a long background that is focused on Hyper-V and SCVMM datacenter design, along with migrations from VMware for more years that he can cares to admit. This blog post
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Microsoft has announced the general availability of ingestion-time transformation for Azure Firewall logs in Log Analytics. This powerful feature allows you to filter, shape, and transform logs before they are ingested, meaning you can significantly reduce your logging costs while improving the quality and relevance of the data you keep. In this post, I’ll explain
By Robert Smit | Azure MVP | Cloud Architect How Windows LAPS secures local admin passwords in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Introduction Managing local administrator passwords in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments has always been a challenge.Static admin passwords create a massive security risk especially in cloud-native deployments using Entra ID joined virtual machines.That’s where
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Intro — why this matters If you deliver enterprise software, SaaS or managed services on Azure you need a reproducible, auditable way to package infrastructure + operations and own the lifecycle without being inside every customer subscription. Azure Managed Applications let ISVs, MSPs and internal IT deliver turnkey solutions that customers deploy while publishers retain
